Shady Lane {SA} 20

Start on the right side of the red amphitheatre. There are two cracks, one with a jammed block/'pillar. Use the right-hand crack (beacon).

1. G2: Climb the crack. Traverse right until able to climb a smooth recess to a ledge.

2. F3: Climb the recess, traverse left at the top.

3. G1: Walk left to a recess with a tricky start and a small swing left below a small overhang. Climb up moving right at the top until able to pull through the roof by a detached block. Continue straight up to a big ledge in a recess.

4. F2: From the left-hand end of the recess climb up and left around the corner onto a sloping ledge. Traverse immediately left in the direction of a tree on the left. Just before the tree climb up and right to a stance below a sloping tamp and a crack.

5. G1: Tricky take-off on rounded holds. Continue up the crack and move left to a belay.

6. F3: From the belay move up again on rounded holds until able to move easily up to a ledge with a tree.

7. G3: From the tree climb up the crack and through to the top.

1. Bury your faeces and carry out your toilet paper. If the ground is too hard to bury your faeces, please carry it out with you and dispose of it in the campsite bins. Poop bags are available for free at De Pakhys. (A special note about this: Tea Garden has been closed primarily due to this problem. Animals such as baboons may eat human faeces and could contract diseases such as Tuberculosis and hepatitis, which could prove detrimental to the population)

2. Do not litter – carry everything you bring in with you back out with you and dispose of your litter in the bins at the campsite.

3. Stick to the allocated paths marked by cairns and as illustrated in the guidebook. Diverting from these paths causes far more erosion than is necessary and may cause the extinction of certain sensitive plants in the area.

4. No graffiti on rock surfaces. (Black Shadow boulder has been closed to climbing due to graffiti)

5. No pof is allowed in Rocklands. The resin damages the rock surfaces and this damage is irreversible.

The complete disrespect of boulderers for the land on which they climb is a very serious and has become a very real threat to bouldering in Rocklands.

Rocklands bouldering is in peril. Rocklands does not belong to the climbers.

Our access is not a right, it’s a privilege and our treatment of the land is the difference between us being allowed to climb in Rocklands and us being banned from climbing in Rocklands altogether.

Irresponsible boulderers have caused this problem and boulderers are the only ones who can fix it.

Please respect the land you climb on in South Africa and adhere to the above mentioned rules. Your privilege to climb in Rocklands depends on it.