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Table of contents
- 1. The Gorge - South Side
187 in Crag
- 1.1. Car Park Boulders 4 in Field
- 1.2. Glass Gully 16 in Cliff
- 1.3. Summit Rim 18 in Cliff
- 1.4. Chaos Gully 8 in Cliff
- 1.5. Mushroom Rock 12 in Cliff
- 1.6. Devilled Cream Buttress 17 in Cliff
- 1.7. Split Pinnacle Area 5 in Cliff
- 1.8. Isotope Wall 13 in Cliff
- 1.9. Angels' Buttress 10 in Cliff
- 1.10. Disabled Lookout Area 9 in Cliff
- 1.11. Bent's Lookout 21 in Cliff
- 1.12. Burston's Crevasse 12 in Cliff
- 1.13. Beowulf Area 7 in Cliff
- 1.14. Sewer Wall 10 in Cliff
- 1.15. The Oval Area 10 in Cliff
- 1.16. The Waterfall South Side 14 in Cliff
- 1.17. Cassia Corner 1 in Cliff
- 2. Index by grade
1. The Gorge - South Side 187 routes in Crag
- Summary:
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Mostly Trad or Sport
Long/Lat: 146.823597, -36.721036
1.1. Car Park Boulders 4 routes in Field
- Summary:
- All Unknown
- Description:© (willmonks)
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The zero walk-in (the boulders are only a few metres from your car) is the only appeal. The 5 meter high micro routes really do look crap.
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wee Willie Winkie | 16 | 6m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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| 2 | Winkie Wanky Woo | 12 | 8m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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| 3 | Now We Are Six | 12 | 8m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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| 4 | When We Were Very Young | 16 | 8m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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1.2. Glass Gully 16 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- All Unknown
- Description:© (willmonks)
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Some of the climbs here are ok, but negotiating the slippery descent is horrendous. In years gone by the chalet rubbish bins were emptied into this gully, so that now the ground here is 1 part dirt, 1 part slippery loose leaf litter, and 1 part shards of razor sharp glass ... all at an angle of 45+ degrees. Bring sturdy footwear, and possibly heavy gloves in case you unexpectedly put a hand down.
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bantam | 15 | 15m | |||
| 2 | Cataract | 17 | 15m | |||
| 3 | Wake In Fright | 20 | 25m | |||
| 4 | Sleep In Peace | 17 | 30m | |||
| 5 | Persona Non Grata | 22 | 25m |
Neil Monteith 7 years ago
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| 6 |
| 21 | 60m |
jono schmidt 8 years ago
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| 7 | Rappiles Rules | 25 | 44m | |||
| 8 | High Voltage | 20 | 45m | |||
| 9 | Energy Crisis | 18 | 15m | |||
| 10 | Short Circuit | 19 | 30m | |||
| 11 | Wichita | 22 | 60m | |||
| 12 | On Line | 22 | 40m | |||
| 13 | Slip And Slide | 21 | 40m |
Will Monks 8 years ago
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| 14 |
| 22 | 25m | |||
| 15 | Crack Of Fat | 22 | 30m | |||
| 16 |
Pathway to Mass Consumption
FA: , 2005 | 25 | 15m |
Neil Monteith 6 years agoNeil Monteith 8 years ago
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1.3. Summit Rim 18 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Trad and Top Rope
- Description:© (koala)
-
For a video of Ring a Ding Ding, see here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmDP1RRh2CI&feature=related
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkey Chute | 14 | 10m |
Stephen Gordon 6 years agoWill Monks 8 years ago
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| 2 | Smear Tactics | 22 | 15m |
Stephen Gordon 4 years agoWill Monks 8 years ago
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| 3 | Thin Wall Special Pineapple Delight | 17 | 18m |
Stephen Gordon 5 years agoBrad Dean 6 years ago
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| 4 |
| 24 | 25m | |||
| 5 | Cabaret | 18 | 30m |
jono schmidt 8 years ago
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| 6 |
| 22 | 45m | |||
| 7 |
Rap in off the rings 20m right (facing out) of the hang-gliding ramp. Layback your way up the flake crack then follow the crack system trending right. Over a bush and youre back at the ramp (two fixed hangers on top of slab for belay). FA: , 2007 | 16 | 30m |
Damien Ayers 3 months agoAnthony Cuskelly 3 months ago
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| 8 | Banana Milkshakes Rule | 23 | 30m |
Neil Monteith 8 years agoWill Monks 8 years ago
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| 9 |
FA: Kevin Lindorff, 2005 | 25 | 76m |
Will Monks 8 years ago
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| 10 |
FA: Kevin Lindorff, Will Monks, 2005 | 22 | 45m |
Will Monks 8 years agoNeil Monteith 8 years ago
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| 11 | Horizontal Kung Fu | 20 | 15m | |||
| 12 |
Great climbing, can be a little hard to find | 20 | 30m |
harold ramsey 1 years agoStephen Gordon 3 years ago
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| 13 |
| 23 | 15m |
Vanessa Wills 5 years ago
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| 14 | Silver Shadow | 22 | 30m |
Will Monks 8 years ago
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| 15 | Finger Fantasy | 21 | 10m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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| 16 |
| 25 | 25m |
Neil Monteith 9 years ago
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| 17 | Cyborg | 23 | 20m | |||
| 18 |
| 21 | 20m |
James Scott-Bohanna 6 years ago
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1.4. Chaos Gully 8 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- All Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loose Lips Sink Ships | 24 | 25m | |||
| 2 | Show And Tell | 23 | 30m | |||
| 3 |
| 22 | 25m | |||
| 4 |
| 19 | 25m | |||
| 5 | To Be Or Knot To Be | 20 | 40m | |||
| 6 | A Cluttered Room | 16 | 10m | |||
| 7 |
| 23 | 130m | |||
| 8 | Stick-jumping Hippy Logic | 22 | 95m | |||
1.5. Mushroom Rock 12 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- Mostly Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teflon Tortoise | 16 | 25m |
Paul Martin
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| 2 | The Southwest Face Of The Grand Champignon | 13 M1 | 6m | |||
| 3 | The Candidate | 18 | 14m | |||
| 4 | Silicon Fish | 22 | 40m | |||
| 5 | Human Edge | 17 | 15m | |||
| 6 | Bower Bird | 20 | 45m | |||
| 7 | Upwardly Mobile | 22 | 12m | |||
| 8 |
| 23 | 35m |
jono schmidt 8 years ago
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| 9 |
| 23 M1 | 50m | |||
| 10 | Speed | 20 | 50m | |||
| 11 | Maverick | 23 | 30m | |||
| 12 | Turtles All the Way Down | 19 | 30m | |||
1.6. Devilled Cream Buttress 17 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- Mostly Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smart Move | 21 | 25m |
Paul Martin
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| 2 | Silverfish | 15 | 50m | |||
| 3 | Dispossession | 19 | 60m |
Rod Young
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| 4 | The Crystal Edge | 14 | 140m | |||
| 5 |
| 18 | 92m |
jono schmidt 8 years agoNeil Monteith 12 years ago
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| 6 | Pythagorus' Perpendicular Pyramid | 16 | 77m | |||
| 7 | Surface Tension | 21 | 45m |
Rod Young
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| 8 | Pooky | 23 | 25m |
Rod Young
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| 9 | Suffragette City | 22 | 60m |
Rod Young
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| 10 | Malicious Gossip | 24 | 40m | |||
| 11 | Devilled Cream | 15 | 64m |
Andrew Clark 4 months agoAndrew Clark 2 years ago
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| 12 | The Devil Rides Out | 25 | 72m | |||
| 13 |
| 21 | 30m |
jono schmidt 8 years agoNeil Monteith 12 years ago
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| 14 | Lost Planet | 19 | 25m | |||
| 15 | Liverwurst | 15 | 40m | |||
| 16 | Sitting Bull | 11 | 30m | |||
| 17 | King Hit | 12 | 82m | |||
1.7. Split Pinnacle Area 5 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- All Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spilt Pinnacle Direct | 21 | 67m | |||
| 2 | The End Of The World | 13 | 300m |
Rod Young
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| 3 | Formica | 15 | 64m | |||
| 4 |
| 30 | 30m | |||
| 5 |
| 16 | 100m | |||
1.8. Isotope Wall 13 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- All Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
| 17 | 110m |
Paul Martin
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| 2 |
| 21 | 45m |
Neil Monteith 8 years ago
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| 3 | Goat Island Variant | 17 | 40m |
Neil Monteith 8 years agoWill Monks 11 years ago
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| 4 | Goat's Head Soup | 19 | 50m | |||
| 5 |
| 19 | 53m | |||
| 6 |
| 22 | 92m |
Rod Young
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| 7 |
| 20 | 65m | |||
| 8 |
| 21 | 20m | |||
| 9 |
| 26 | 80m | |||
| 10 |
| 27 | 45m | |||
| 11 | Isotope | 20 | 82m | |||
| 12 | Stumble On A Chimp's Dick | 19 | 110m | |||
| 13 | Bitter Sweet | 16 | 88m | |||
1.9. Angels' Buttress 10 routes in Cliff
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mephistopheles | 17 | 200m | |||
| 2 |
| 23 | 110m | |||
| 3 |
| 16 M1 | 280m | |||
| 4 | Where Angels Fear to Tread Direct Start | 19 | 26m |
Vanessa Wills 5 years ago
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| 5 |
| 17 | 230m |
Damien Ayers 4 months agoChris "August" Elliott 3 months ago
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| 6 | Fools Rush In | 18 M4 | 230m | |||
| 7 | Fool's Gold | 18 | 160m | |||
| 8 | Charon | 18 M1 | 230m | |||
| 9 | Charon Direct Finish | 18 | 140m | |||
| 10 | The Fallen Angel | 20 | 220m | |||
1.10. Disabled Lookout Area 9 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Aid and Trad
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cacophonic Crack | 21 | 15m |
Stephen Gordon 5 years agoRod Young
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| 2 | Thanksgiving Crack | M3 | 15m | |||
| 3 | The Cream Machine | M3 | 14m |
David Hinder 2 years ago
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| 4 |
| 21 | 110m |
andy reynolds 15 years agoRod Young
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| 5 |
Madame La Guillotine
AID REDUCTION: Climbed with a rest only on the rope at grade 22M0 in 1979 by Rod Young (belayed by Mark Moorhead). | 22 M0 | 15m |
Rod Young
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| 6 | Autocrat | 18 | 75m | |||
| 7 | Autocrat Direct Finish | 20 | 40m | |||
| 8 | Three Amigos | 20 | 25m |
Will Monks 8 years ago
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| 9 | Mayday | 22 | 65m | |||
1.11. Bent's Lookout 21 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Aid and Trad
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steadfast Steamer | 18 | 30m | |||
| 2 | Willie Make It | 22 | 25m | |||
| 3 |
An impressive direct line. Unfortunately vegetation has been winning the battle in recent decades as Buffalo's popularity has waned. Cleaning has resumed in January 2011 - get in quick before the mank comes back. Previously written up as being 117m, this is not possible as the cliff here is no more than 90m high and this route is very direct. The pitch lengths have been condensed to make the total length a bit more realistic.
FA: Keith Lockwood, Goeff Gledhill, Chris Baxter (var) (M4), 1970 | 21 | 140m |
Neil Monteith 12 years ago
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| 4 |
| 27 | 50m | |||
| 5 |
| 22 M1 | 120m |
Tim Haasnoot 5 years agoharold ramsey 6 years ago
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| 6 | Hard Rain Variant | 21 | 40m | |||
| 7 | The Status Quo Alternative Finish | 15 | 30m | |||
| 8 |
| 23 | 38m | |||
| 9 | The Establishment | 21 | 110m |
Rod Young
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| 10 |
| 23 | 120m | |||
| 11 | The Establishment Direct Start | 16 | 25m | |||
| 12 | The Establishment Composite Variant | 19 M1 | 66m | |||
| 13 |
| 22 | 40m |
Neil Monteith 7 years ago
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| 14 | Boadicea | 17 | 130m | |||
| 15 | Caliph | 16 | 160m | |||
| 16 | War Pigs | 20 | 60m | |||
| 17 | Pig's Knickers | 14 M2 | 120m | |||
| 18 | Pig's Knickers Variant | 14 M2 | 95m | |||
| 19 |
| 21 | 20m |
Tim Haasnoot 5 years agoNeil Monteith 7 years ago
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| 20 |
| 20 | 30m |
Tim Haasnoot 5 years agoWill Monks 6 years ago
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| 21 | Gnarly Clips And Nothing Grips | 24 | 12m | |||
1.12. Burston's Crevasse 12 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Trad and Aid
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Premiere | M5 | 37m | |||
| 2 | Dodgy Bros. | 12 | 12m | |||
| 3 | Deli Belly | 16 | 15m | |||
| 4 | Stone Believer | 25 | 37m | |||
| 5 |
Chunky Custard
Two FH and a BR. Some other trad placements available too. | 16 | 18m , 3 |
Andrew Clark 1 years ago
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| 6 |
| 23 | 64m | |||
| 7 | Agrippa Direct Finish | 24 | 10m | |||
| 8 |
| 18 | 60m |
Tim Haasnoot 5 years agoCameron McKenzie 7 years ago
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| 9 | Caligular-Agrippa Connection | 17 | 6m | |||
| 10 |
| 26 | 60m | |||
| 11 |
| 22 | 75m | |||
| 12 | Grandstand | 17 | 35m | |||
1.13. Beowulf Area 7 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Trad and Sport
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
| 18 | 20m |
Damien Ayers 3 months agoAnthony Cuskelly 3 months ago
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| 2 | Ethical Corner | 12 | 25m |
Stephen Gordon 4 years agoPeter Webster 5 years ago
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| 3 | What Ethics? | 15 | 10m |
Andrew Clark 1 years agoTim Haasnoot 5 years ago
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| 4 | Time Passage | 21 | 25m |
Paul Martin
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| 5 |
| 22 | 25m |
Safer Cliffs Victoria 8 years agoPaul Martin
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| 6 |
FA: Malcolm Matheson Kevin Lindorff, | 26 | 50m |
Neil Monteith 8 years ago
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| 7 |
| 24 | 47m | |||
1.14. Sewer Wall 10 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Aid
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diagonal Darkie | 19 | 35m | |||
| 2 | Winnie The Pooh | 19 | 88m | |||
| 3 | Pooh Corner | 19 M4 | 130m | |||
| 4 | Exhibit A | 25 M0 | ||||
| 5 | Sahara | 18 | 40m | |||
| 6 | Flayed | 18 | 58m | |||
| 7 | Moondance | 18 | 20m |
Rod Young
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| 8 | Penetrator Crack | 19 | 30m | |||
| 9 | Gabriel Corner | 18 | 47m | |||
| 10 | Escape Route | 12 | 45m |
Rod Young
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1.15. The Oval Area 10 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Trad and Aid
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suburban Sausage | 19 | 30m | |||
| 2 | City Street | 20 | 30m | |||
| 3 |
| 24 | 27m | |||
| 4 | Comeback Trail | 16 M3 | 29m | |||
| 5 |
| 22 | 30m | |||
| 6 | Jumping Jack Flash | 20 M2 | 40m | |||
| 7 |
| 17 | 40m |
Andrew Clark 2 years agoAndrew Clark 2 years ago
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| 8 | Wicked Solitaire Variant | 17 | 15m |
James 9 years ago
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| 9 | The Short Reache | 20 | 42m | |||
| 10 |
| 22 | 10m |
Andrew Clark 2 years agoTim Haasnoot 5 years ago
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1.16. The Waterfall South Side 14 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
- ?,Trad and Aid
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Highway 61
Usually ruined by mank, but has had a clean in January 2011 - get in quick before it grows back. | 20 M2 | 43m | |||
| 2 |
| 24 | 85m | |||
| 3 |
| 25 | 170m | |||
| 4 | Siesta | 17 | 20m |
Andrew Clark 4 months ago
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| 5 |
| 15 | 35m |
Andrew Clark 4 months agoStephen Gordon 5 years ago
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| 6 | True Dinks | 23 | 35m | |||
| 7 | Dizzy Limits | 23 | 40m | |||
| 8 |
| 23 | 50m |
Paul Martin
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| 9 |
| 20 | 50m |
Neil Monteith 7 years agoPaul Martin
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| 10 |
| 23 | 38m |
Paul Martin
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| 11 | Falls Corner | 15 | 70m |
Paul Martin 20 years ago
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| 12 | Pulsing Sally | 19 | 30m | |||
| 13 | Dialectical Reason | M5 | 25m | |||
| 14 | Chip Buttie | 22 | 15m | |||
1.17. Cassia Corner 1 route in Cliff
- Summary:
- All Unknown
| Route | Grade | Style | Popularity | Selected ascents | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sicilian Dragon | 20 | 45m | |||
