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Best wide crack in Vic/NSW. 19-Jun-2014 At 10:10:30 PM Ithomas

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Country Road was and remains a real landmark, moss and all. Cacaphonic Crack is a true off-width but hardly worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Monarch or Angels. Even the magnificent Angels can hardly be considered off-width because the wide sections are so easy angled and can be walked up with a big pair of boots.

Most of the named climbs from NSW are corners and can be bridged. The Triple Echo may be an exception and Teaser and the Firecat has its thrills. Telstar is not an off-width. It might be an awful width but its not an off-width. Same with The Landslide Chimney, which by the way, is way easier than Telstar.

Queensland is not NSW or Victoria but as Wendy says, there are lots of true off-width at Frog Buttress of which Juggernaught and Venom are standouts.
No mention of Tasmania but people ought not forget Frews Flutes where some testing off-widths occur including Fantini's awsome climb, Pipeline, and there are a couple of beauties on the Organ Pipes and at the Lost World.

In the ACT there are some pretty good skin tearers on Orroral Ridge. Julius Caesar might just be an offwidth at the top. There are lots of others there including the central line at Trojan Wall which may have been climbed by now? I tried it with Ray Lassman in 1975 by wearing an EB on my right foot and a Galabier Super Guide on my left. It got me to the ceiling, but clearly, I was out of my depth and eventually the Superguide weighed me down. When Henry Barber freed Sooleimon a few months later he toyed with the idea of the big central line and thought that it would eventually go and would prove to be be the hardest climb in the country.

There must be heaps of other off-widths around but don't confuse them with chimneys or bridging corners.