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The Shooting Gallery

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Summary

As you enter Keurkloof you will notice some tall faces high up on the left hand side of the kloof. This is the Shooting Gallery, the only walls in the kloof to receive morning shade.

Description

Host to a few routes, including a mega-long open project requiring a 80m rope. Take a 70m rope for the epic line "Ricochet" (a must do 26 when visiting Montagu). The warm up 22 "Sniper" requires one to do an exposed scramble to get up to the start of the route (in a chimney with a chockstone).

Access issues

No access issues

Approach

Follow the main path into the kloof. Once out of the black wattle grove, continue on the path until just before it dips into the dry river bed. Look out to the left for a cairn. Weave your way between the bushes and onto the slope that leads up to the Shooting Gallery. If you are lucky you will pass a few more cairns on the way up the steep slope. About a third of the way up slope you will cross a dry riverbed. Continue aiming up the slope towards the gallery. Roughly 30~40mins of hiking.

Ethic inherited from Montagu

To avoid any further Altercations with land owners and incorrect equipment being used, the Montagu Mountain Committee (who are responsible for the Montagu Reserve) have asked for applications to be submitted before a new route is bolted.

Applications here: http://www.climbing.co.za/bolting-information/bolting-new-routes-montagu/

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Grade Route

More than 30m. Use a 70m rope.

FA: S. Maasch, 1993

FA: J. Smith, 2008

FA: Malcolm Gowans, 1993

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Author(s): Tony Lourens

Date: 2022

ISBN: 9780620995696

A definitive guidebook covering all the sport and trad climbing found throughout the whole of the Montagu area, describing over 700 routes across a wide range of grades.

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