Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Main Cliff Boulders Lebowski Boulder | |||||
V1 | We are Nihilists
Face around the corner to the left. Up flake and onto slab. | ||||
Project 1
Left arete | |||||
V4 | The Big Lebowski
Hang start, left to right lip traverse. | ||||
Project 2
left of centre | |||||
V0 | The Dude Abides
The right arete, made easy by holds on the right face. | ||||
Main Cliff Boulders Excavator Boulder | |||||
V2 | ★ The Excavator
Steep left arete. | ||||
V7 | V7
From low rail, ip middle of the steep face, finishing left. | ||||
V10 | Project
Up face and finish straight up. | ||||
Main Cliff Boulders Bulldozer Boulder | |||||
V4 | ★ The Bulldozer
Big pull of shaky flakes to top. | ||||
Main Cliff Boulders Crowbar Boulder | |||||
V0 | V0a
Around left from steep face. | ||||
V0 | V0b
Sit start on the arete, head left and up. Not as bad as it looks. | ||||
V1 | V1
Face right of the arete. | ||||
V0 | V0c
Flake in middle of face. | ||||
V3 | ★ V3
The steep arete on the back of the boulder. Start low on slopers. | ||||
The Blockhouse The Choss Block | |||||
V0- | 1st Very Easy
Stand - left side of featured slab. | ||||
V0- | 2nd Very Easy
Stand - right side of featured slab. | ||||
V1 | V1
Chossy jugs at the bottom of the boulder. | ||||
The Blockhouse Merci Boulder | |||||
V5 | ★★★ The Original Fire
Very nice flakes up left side of steep face. Head right to finish. | 4m | |||
V7 | ★★★ Merci Fire
Starting on the right hand pocket and left hand pinch. Up shallow crack without using arete. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | 4m | |||
V3 | ★ Merci Fuckyou
The right arete of the steep face. | 4m | |||
V2 | ★ Hot English Tea
Thin crack 1.5m left of Show Day Special. | ||||
V3 | ★ Show Day Special
The right arete of the vertical face. | ||||
The Blockhouse Stubbie Boulder | |||||
V0 | Slab of Stubbies
Slab on far left of boulder. | ||||
Project
Sit start and up onto slab. | |||||
V8 | Stubbie
Sit start from two crimps. Stand start off opposing side pulls is about V2. | ||||
The Stronghold Lower Boulders | |||||
V2 | 1. V2 SDS
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V2 | 2. V2
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V1 | 3. Alpine Style
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V1 | ★ Wombat Arete
The most worthwhile problem on the boulder, the southern arete. Great climbing for the grade. Watch you don't put your foot in the wombat burrow. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2009 | ||||
The Stronghold Smear Boulder | |||||
V5 | ★ Smear Test
| 5m | |||
V6 | ★ Slope Test
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V1 | 1.V1 SDS
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? | 2. V? SDS
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V5 | ★★ 3. Slope Exam
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V2 | 4. V2
stand start | ||||
The Stronghold Fat Boulder | |||||
VE | Big Fat Crap
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VE | VE
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The Stronghold Inner City Boulder | |||||
V3 | ★★ V3 SDS
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VE | VE SDS
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V1 | V1 SDS
The arête a few metres right of the VE. | ||||
V2 | Inner City Blockies
Start on arete at the V1 climb, traverse leftwards to finish up V3. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2008 | ||||
V10 | Inner City Pressure
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V6 | ★★ City Migi
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The Stronghold Dirt Boulder | |||||
V2 | Fight Through the Dirt
SDS | ||||
VE | VE Stand
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V5 | ★ Dirty Faced Mother Fucker
SDS - The footwork beta problem. Up the centre of the face from a stistart. Harder if you're short. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2009 | ||||
V0 | Dirt Music
SDS | ||||
The Stronghold Barad-dur | |||||
V11 | Project
The awesome steep arete. Traverse left to jugs about two thirds the way up. | ||||
V5 | ★ Zazen
Start up the crack a couple of metres left of Crack of Doom. Move right into Crack of Doom at the Top. Good moves and improving rock as you go higher, a tad committing but with a flat landing. | 6m | |||
V4 | ★★ Crack of Doom
The awesome highball crack | 6m | |||
V3 | ★ Harden the Fuck Up
Face around the arete right of Crack of Doom, to left of ramp. | 5m | |||
The Stronghold Orthanc | |||||
V0 | ★★ Orthanc Arete
| 6m | |||
V0 | ★ VO SDS
| 4m | |||
VE | VE Stand
| 4m | |||
V6 | Limpet
| 4m | |||
Project
Project - Thin face right of Limpet. Move left at the top. | 4m | ||||
The Stronghold Zinc Fingers Boulder | |||||
V4 | 2. Zinc Fingers
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V0 | VO Stand
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V2 | V2 SDS
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V11 | 1. Uprising
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VE | 3. VE Stand
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The Stronghold Don't Fight It Boulder | |||||
V4 | ★★★ Setting Sun
Sustained dead-pointing up pockets and features on slightly overhanging wall. | 4m | |||
V4 | ★ Bug, Powder, Dust
| 4m | |||
V5 | V4/5
Stand - Start at a good side pull of "Bug, Power, Dust" then up to rail and veer right past sidepulls and slaps to finish near "Don't fight it". Refuse the temptation to use left crack system. A little Contrived. | 4m | |||
V4 | Not So Contrived Now!
| 4m | |||
V4 | ★★ V3/4 SDS
| 6m | |||
V3 | ★★ Don't Fight It
| 4m | |||
V3 | ★★ The Panics
| 5m | |||
V5 | ★★ Belly of the Beast
Start on the same sloping jugs as The Panics, do it's crux move and then go right and hug your way up the belly of the boulder. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | 5m | |||
V5 | ★★ See Ros Run
| 8m | |||
The Stronghold Grey Slab | |||||
V0 | V0 sit
Start left of the arete, move right. | 8m | |||
V0 | 2nd V0 sit
Short arete on left end of slab. | 4m | |||
VE sit
Up the groove. | 4m | ||||
VE stand
Left side of slab. | 4m | ||||
V0 | ★★ 3rd V0
Right side of slab. | 4m | |||
V1 | V1
Traverse slab left to right. Starting on V0 to the left finish on right | 4m | |||
★ Titanic
This problem is on the small block between Grey Slab and Vitriol Boulder. A silly little problem guaranteed to make you giggle. Sit start hugging the arete with two sidepulls, then go up. One star for making you giggle. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2009 | 1m | ||||
The Stronghold Back Wall | |||||
V0 | Al's Arete
Highball - the juggy arete on the left hand end of the cliff line. | ||||
V6 | Pommie Ring In
Up left side of prow to the jugs above the old carrot. Continuing on towards the prow will tale some balls. | ||||
Project
Project | |||||
The Stronghold Beginners Block | |||||
VE | ★ Sunrise Arete
The obvious traversing arete, classic for the grade. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | ||||
V2 | It's Alright...
A right-left traverse has been done starting at the V0 finishing on Sunset Arete. FA: topher, 2010 | ||||
V0 | V0
Up the horizontal slopes from a sit start. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | ||||
V0 | Slabby McHalf-a-Slab
Climb up the centre of the slab that starts around waist height. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | ||||
V3 | V3
Starting on low crimps, climb the arete right of the slab. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | ||||
Open project 1
Up middle of the face downhill. | |||||
V0 | Easy In An Easy Chair
Laydown start on the rail under the lip. Heelhook the lip and mantle. A 'classic' in the same league as Titanic. FA: Mike Hitchcock, 2010 | ||||
V3 | So Bad It's Good
Stat at the big hold as for the next problem, traverse left along the lip with choss for feed. | ||||
V1 | V1 sit
Sit start at big jug, straight up face to hole. | ||||
V1 | V1 stand
Arete, then move left to hole. | ||||
V2 | V2 sit
Up dirty arete to big hole. | ||||
V0 | V0 stand
Start to the right, move leftwards up flakes to hole. | ||||
project
Awesome highball arete. | |||||
V3 | Evolution
Traverse from jugs leftwards on flakes towards the jugs on the arete. No doubt will get harder as the flakes bust off. | ||||
The Stronghold Straight Lines Area | |||||
V1 | ★★ Better With Age
Nice face on the opposite side of the boulder from Straight Lines. Stand start on rail and straight up and over, lots of variations, all of them pretty fun. | 4m | |||
V4 | ★ Busted
| 2m | |||
V1 | V1 SDS
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V2 | ★★ Straight Lines
| 2m | |||
V0 | V0
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V9 | Mouthful of Love
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