Tibrogargan - The Caves Route in 7 Minutes!
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- #hiking #climbing #glasshousemountains #adventure
With nothing much to do last Friday, I drove up to the Glasshouse Mountains to climb Tibrogargan via the 'Caves Route'.
Tibrogargan (the mountain) is one of the more popular summits in the area and almost everyone ascends via the 'normal' summit track - a scamble-y ribbon of rock that runs directly up the western side of the mountain.
That's all well and good but for there's a more interesting, dramatic and steeper line on the impressive eastern face. This unmarked route cuts across the lower half of the near-vertical face and climbs through 2 caves before traversing across the upper face to a ridge on the North-eastern side of the mountain. From the ridge it's an easy hike up to the summit.
It's not overly difficult in the technical sense but for me it seems much more of a 'mountain experience' - it also helps to have a 'head for heights' as the exposure can get pretty extreme!
From the summit, I descended via the normal route, which is more direct and less exposed.
For a full description of the route, visit my blog:
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This is sick Ben! More content like this please.
Awesome stuff dude! Balls of steel. Which alltrails map did you use (if you used one?)
Thank you! Ah I didn't use a route but I did have a route description from some website - sorry I can't remember where I got it now.
Best video of a Mt Tibro hike I found, good on you mate!
Thanks very much! Appreciate it.
Just watching that had my heart rate elevated. I would love to go up that way to see the caves but not sure I have the bottle to do it.
Hey Neil - I should note that the worst part of it (the headcam shot in the video) turned out to be 'off route' and I had to backtrack a little to get back onto the (less steep) correct route!
just guessing that the first time you did this, you were shown where to go, ? i had a quick look and two words struck me as very fitting for this endeavor FUCK THAT !!!! the tourist route gives me more than enough heart palpatations as is. can't believe how cas you are about it , excellent drone footage and thanks for making this
Hey Mitchell, actually I took a printed out route description as my guide and just decided I was fully prepared to turn around if things got outside my comfort zone (I’ll admit that this route is near the upper end of that zone - especially the first time).
Who are you Alex Honnold? Crazy this like freesoloing to me great video
Haha thanks that’s awesome but this route isn’t quite as hard/steep as it might look. I appreciate the comparison though!
Nice work! It looks like you're wearing approach shoes, would you say that they are essential for the route, or would some grippy hiking shoes or trail runners do the job? Cheers
They’re actually trail runners with chunky soles (On Cloudventure). I don’t think you need anything too sticky for this as hand/footholds tend to be good.
Good job man!! I did a few weeks ago with some mates. But i used a rope LoL.
I wouldn't have minded being roped up during that head-cam bit in the video tbh...
How good is it though? One of my favorite routes in SEQ.
@@TheAdventurousBen It was an awesome day out! There were 1 or 2 "oh crap" moments though. LoL. I did a video of the climb I'm gonna put up on my other channel soon.
Hey dude, I'm not trying to be a sook or politically correct cause I love your content. One of my mates is search and rescue there when someone fell 250m off that front face in 2016 and his body literally exploded when he hit the ground within a 20m radius. There's been a couple of deaths since than so that poor shmuck comment was a little raw. I know there's no harm intended, just letting you know if you weren't already aware.
Hey Mat, thanks for commenting. You got it right that it was a little throwaway joke without much thought behind it, but yeah it's important to keep in mind that if you put yourself out there, these things can happen and it shouldn't be taken too lightly.
Awesome video, could you please tell me what drone you used? Thanks :)
Hey Daniela, thanks so much. It’s a DJI Mavic pro (original).
hey mate have u seen any falcons there?
Not that I can remember.
Was thinking of doing this without ropes because the gear is expensive. Could this be done without gear?
Yes as long as you stay on route and are comfortable doing a bit of exposed scrambling, you don’t need ropes. There are bolted routes on this side of the mountain as well.
@@TheAdventurousBen is the route hard to follow? Like hidden tracks
@@spacemilks6835 Much of it isn't really marked at all really. I found a route description (maybe on the alltrails app or similar) and followed that. I did go 'off route' once or twice so be ready to backtrack a bit if it doesn't look right.
@@TheAdventurousBen thanks for the help. Got a couple more.
How long would it usually take to complete and what would be the hardest bit of the climb?
@@spacemilks6835 No worries. It's not very long - maybe 20 minutes from the carpark plus an hour up the mountain then 30 minutes back down via the normal route. There are a couple of steeper sections but they're quite short. If you find yourself on really sketchy ground you're probably off-route.
Bloody hell mate, that's awesome. I really wanna do this route but the drone shots don't give me confidence haha
Haha thanks! The drone shots do exaggerate the perspective a little. It’s steep and exposed but not quite as vertical as it looks.
Yeah nah. I've been told people get stuck lol