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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | Crag | |
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17 | ★★★ Grey Mist
Most will agree, this climb is the best easy/moderate trad route at the Point and for miles around. Gear placement is amply available and the climbing consistent at the grade. Start in the middle of the dark south-facing wall to the right of the Man Overboard corner. Follow the sinuous crack as it slowly widens to hand size. FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1984 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
16 | ★★ Man Overboard
Start in the corner, just right of the typical abseil line. Better than it looks with varied climbing and good jamming at the top on clean rock. FA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1984 | 26m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★★★ Icebird
3 major splitter cracks are the dominant features on the left side of the wall. Icebird is the left one. A great line and a great climb. Up the jugs, then a wide bit, to lovely hands. FA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1984 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★★ Windjammer
The right one of the 3 major crack lines. Ensure you place lots of good gear in the first half as some of the rock is a bit suspect. FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1984 FFA: Ian Brown & Bob McMillan, 1988 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★ Jaws
The obvious corner in the middle of the wall. FFA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1984 | 32m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★★ Drunk And Disorderly
The right of the trio. Steeper than it looks with a deceptive crux near the top. Three carrots up a slab to start, then a couple of FH's, then ringbolts. A royal sampler. FA: Gareth Downey & Rick Phillips | 20m | Point Perpendicular | ||
20 | ★★ Tenere
A true line. Start in the corner as for Jaws. At the ledge climb the fiddly seam on the main (L) wall. Continue up the stunning crack to top. Full rack to #3 cam. Sling small tree and boulder for belay. FA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1985 | 28m | Point Perpendicular | ||
21 | ★★ Blowing In The Wind
The leftmost of a trio of easier sport routes in the center of Windjammer Wall which puts 6 retrobolts onto The Sublime and the Ridiculous. FA: Rick Phillips & Will Watkins, 2012 | 20m, 10 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★★ Turning Of The Tide
The left arete of Windjammer Wall. Incredible climbing up one the best aretes at Point Perp. Climb the arête and the face just to the right past lots of carrot bolts, supplemented by occasional medium sized cams. This was originally climbed onsight with no bolts (!) and was later "accidentally" retrobolted. 2 carrots on top. FA: Tony Barton, Joe Lynch, John Churchill & Mike Peck, 1988 | 30m, 8 | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★★ Dirty Dancing
The middle one of the 3 major crack lines. Gets thinner and harder as you get higher and pumpder. This was John's pick of the area. FFA: John Fantini & Phil Georgeff, 1988 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★ Rock the Clock
The direct finish to Full Sail. Start as for Full Sail then take the ringbolted arete to the top. FA: John Fantini & Keith Bell, 1989 | 30m, 3 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★ Shooting The Breeze
The middle of the trio. Fantastic climb; very technical and pumpy, save some gas for the top. Ringbolts. FA: Rick Phillips & Will Watkins, 2012 | 23m, 10 | Point Perpendicular | ||
18 | ★★ Montezuma
The corner. Interesting terrain, fairly sustained with good rock. Take lots of gear from hands upwards, hexes useful. Belay off close wide crack (Camalots #3-5, if you’ve got any left!), or mid-sized cams 6-8m back, or carrots 20m back. FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1985 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
23 | ★★ Happy Go Lucky
Start 3m L of the Man Overboard corner under the line of fixed hangers. Routefinding skills required at second bolt (!) Sustained climbing on fiddly, often sharp little holds finishing at lower-off 4m below the clifftop. Has been linked into the top flake of Walk The Plank to top out. FA: Rick Phillips & Seb Sakowicz, 2012 | 22m, 10 | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★★ Walk the Plank
This is awesome. Start below the fine crack with a bolt, 4m left of corner. Up the wall past breaks and three bolts. At third bolt head right up the double edged flake. Don't place gear behind the suss flakes if you enjoy life and are looking forward to more of it! FA: Mark Wilson & Richard Watts, 1988 | 30m, 3 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 R | ★★★ Memorable Moves
Daunting and inspiring trad masterpiece. The left-most thin weakness through the upper headwall. Start 2m L of Icebird. Easily up left facing flake, then juggy wall to final searing seam. Full trad rack from #5 cam to tiny wires. There is an easy section down low with mediocre rock, but adequate protection if you brought the #4-5 cams. Without them your options are either to run it out with a groundfall on the cards, or start up Icebird for 10m then step left. FFA: John Fantini & Phil Georgeff, 1988 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★★ Full Sail
Excellent climbing, better than it looks. Start at the crack just L of the arete, 3m R of Grey Mist.
FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1984 | 40m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★ Hot to Trot
Line of bolts left of the Montezuma corner, gaining in difficulty the higher you go, to lower-offs (doesn't top out). FA: Rick Phillips & John Lattanzio, 2012 | 23m, 11 | Point Perpendicular | ||
21 | ★★ Midnight Lightning
Great wall route, all gear bar one U-bolt. Start up the obvious flake in the lower wall a few metres left of Hot To Trot's line of rings. Comes complete with excellent arete crack finish. Careful of some hollow blocks on the start and finish. 3 carrots on top. FA: John Fantini & James Hoy, 1990 | 30m, 1 | Point Perpendicular | ||
23 | ★★ Some Weird Sin
Start on the right-hand side of the middle arete of Windjammer Wall - 5m right of Jaws. Up the wall and then arete passing bolts and cams. Move around to the R-side of the arete after clipping final bolt. Take lots of brackets. Double ring belay. FFA: Mike Moore & Greg James, 1998 | 30m, 7 | Point Perpendicular | ||
23 | ★★★ Hungry Eyes
Start on top of the block, at the small L-facing corner just right of Some Weird Sin. Up enjoyable jugs, passing a couple of small overlaps to base of crack. Up thin crack then into hand crack to finish. Double ring belay. FFA: John Fantini & Phil Georgeff, 1988 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★ The Omen
Great sport climbing on lovely orange rock. This is the ringbolted line right of Hungry Eyes. If you stay where the bolts are and don't sneak off right where it is easier then you don't share any climbing with Permissability. Either way the last few metres are the crux! To get the full tick, climb past the double bolt anchors for one more move to the large pocket and back-jump to the anchors. FFA: Matt Brooks, 2013 Set: Simon Vaughan, 2013 | 22m, 13 | Point Perpendicular | ||
25 | ★★★ Vertical Romance
Great route, shady all day, overhanging, and crazy cool moves. The line of ringbolts that starts up the flake 5m R of Montezuma and 5m L of Turning Of The Tide. Belay off mid-sized cams 6-8m back, or carrots 20m back. FA: Duncan Hunter | 30m, 11 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★ PaddleRock
Climb between Drunk and Disorderly and Feeding Frenzy, tuff move at 3rd bolt then make your way up to double rings. Last 6 meters is an open project. Enjoy:) FA: Tim Booth, 10 Nov 2017 | 25m, 12 | Point Perpendicular | ||
21 | ★★ Not All There
The line of carrots left of Windjammer that leads to 2 bolt lower off. Take many cams and a handful of brackets (it's mostly trad). The direct finish is 26 and is called Halfway House Extension (for some reason). The lower-off will twist the s#it out of your rope - would be nice to see it upgraded. | 25m | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★★ Sail the Nullabor
Ascends the discontinuous thin cracks up the centre of this piece of wall to finish either up the thin crack (better pro, but harder) or the flake to its L. Another trad masterpiece. FFA: John Fantini & Phil Georgeff, 1988 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★ Barracouta
Start just right of Turning of the Tide. Up past short corner and numerous breaks (natural gear) to headwall with three carrot bolts and a fixed hanger. Seriously tricky up high. #3 and #4 cams are handy right at the start. Belay off mid-sized cams 6-8m back. FFA: Andrew Bull & Tony Barton, 1990 | 30m, 4 | Point Perpendicular | ||
15/16 | ★ Beside the Seaside
First a trad route, never done. Then retrobolted and renamed. All but 2 bolts have been chopped by persons unknown in March 2013. Full trad rack now required! Starts at double ringbolt belay at the furthest you can safely walk left when on the Windjammer ledge. FA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1985 | 40m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★ SS Minnow
Starts 5m left of the Jaws corner below the line of FHs. Up wall past three FHs then trad goodness until final climactic flake (BR). Single set of cams protects the rest. Finishes at left set of lower-offs about 4m short of the top of the wall. The single BR above is an open project. (A linkup has been done: Hate Minnows, 22: Hate Mail to last bolt, but instead head left to SS Minnow anchors, clipping bolt (bolt plate)). FFA: Greg James, 2001 | 25m, 4 | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★ Shooting The Breeze Extension
Some nice holds on this one following the attractive seam. Up and R from the anchors past two more ringbolts and a cam. | 25m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
25 | ★★ I Have A Dream
Start 3m L of Walk The Plank. Hard start with awkward second clip - care! Steel yourself for the top moves on the rounded flake. If Martin Luther King could dream I guess we all can... FA: Set: Rick Phillips, 2012 FFA: Will Watkins, 2012 | 20m, 8 | Point Perpendicular | ||
23 | ★★ Last Man Standing
The second line of rings left of Jaws' major corner. Five rings and several finger/hand sized cams to lower off anchors below the top of the cliff where the line joins Liquid Lunch. Connecting it into the top is a possibility at around grade 26 and has been attempted by Neil & others. FA: Neil Monteith, 2013 | 25m, 5 | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★★ Feeding Frenzy
The R-leaning shallow flake in the headwall that is L of the main overlap (Liquid Lunch). Start just to the R of the centre of Windjammer Wall beneath the flake. Climb the easy lower part of the wall (bolt) to the flake, move L near the top to finish. FFA: Giles Bradbury, 1989 | 30m, 3 | Point Perpendicular | ||
23 | ★ Beef in Cider
The arête direct, starting on left side (just right of Vertical Romance). 5 U-bolts, optional 2&3 camalot, one U-bolt and then join into last three carrot bolts of Turning of the Tide. Pumpy! Use long runners on the carrots to avoid ropedrag. FA: Heath Black, 18 Apr 2016 | 30m, 9 | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★ Seamstress
Variant finish to Windjammer. Start up Windjammer, then avoid the wide crack by stepping left into the white marble seam. Very challenging trad climb both the climbing and protection. FFA: Robert Dun & Matt Scholes (preplaced gear), 2009 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
18 | ★ Search and Destroy
The left facing corner at the right hand end of the wall.
FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1984 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★ Sunset Boulevard
Shady, steep, all bolts and great face moves. Start up the corner as for Montezuma, then follow the rings on the right wall and through a small roof up high. Belay off mid-sized cams 6-8m back, or carrots 20m back. | 30m, 10 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★ Hot Cross Buns
Sustained and well protected wall climbing with characteristic Point Perp buckets and horizontals. Starts 2m left of SS Minnow below thin crack. Face to start, then up juggy crack to unlikely wall and right leading flake. When the holds run out at 20m traverse right to join SS Minnow at its last BR and finish as for that route. Bring a full rack with doubles in the finger/hand sizes plus a #4 camalot to protect the first 5m. FFA: Neil Monteith | 20m, 1 | Point Perpendicular | ||
24 | ★★ Hate Mail
Varied and sustained wall climbing up beautiful polished rock with the typical cruxy Windjammer finish. Starts 1m left of Tenere behind small tree and 2m right of SS Minnow. Five U-bolts and four or five good cam slots (fingers to hand size). Save a #2 Camalot for pocket in the finish moves. Lower-off anchor is 3m below the top of the cliff at large finish pocket. FFA: Neil Monteith | 25m, 5 | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★★ The Sublime and the Ridiculous
Follows the thin, right-sloping crack on the headwall R of Windjammer. Up suspect rock to the base of the crack. Follow the bolts below the slanting crack to the top. This route has been heavily retrobolted by Blowing in the Wind (see the notes for the extension to that route). FFA: Ant Prehn, 1989 | 30m, 3 | Point Perpendicular | ||
27 | ★★★ Da Omen
The one bolt extension of The Omen to enable the link into the top of Permissability. Super small pockets, just like 80s French limestone! Set: Matt Brooks FFA: Matt Brooks, 2013 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★ Halfway House Extension
The one bolt extension to Not All There. Thin and techy. | 22m, 7 | Point Perpendicular | ||
28 | ★★★ Unleash ya Willy | 25m, 4 | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★★ Night Shift
Traverse at half height from the Man Overboard corner to the arete, about half way up Full Sail. FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt | 32m | Point Perpendicular | ||
18 | ★ Blazing Jugs
FFA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1985 | 130m, 8 | Point Perpendicular | ||
22 | ★★★ No Crack No Sin
Climb the face between Jaws and Some Weird Sin. Balancy and exposed move low with tricky top section. FA: Tim Booth, Jan 2015 | 25m | Point Perpendicular | ||
25 | ★★★ Mr Logistics
Awesome arete. Short, steep and sustained unlike many a Point Perp route. Rap off rings at top of arete 15m SW of Midnight Lightning to small foot ledge. Use first ring and gear as belay. Take lots of 0.75 and 1 cams. FA: Duncan Hunter, 2008 | 15m, 4 | Point Perpendicular | ||
27 | ★★ Permissability
The overlap right of Hungry Eyes. Awesome moves on great rock. Sustained through the top. FFA: Duncan Hunter, 2009 | 30m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★★ Settle Down Damo
Two bolt extension of Blowing In The Wind to the top. FA: Tim Booth, 2014 | 30m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | ★ Jaws Variant
Up slab right of corner, minimal gear. You can stay on slab until about 5m below top then step left to finish up Jaws. FA: Peter Blunt & Ian brown, 1984 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★★ Susie now Settled
The face between Icebird & Dirty Dancing. Tricky start needs small cams and alert belay, or start up an adjacent route for 5m. Then mostly moderate climbing about grade 21 till big break 6m from top. Put in lots of bomber gear and punch to top! FA: Tim Booth, Jun 2015 | 25m | Point Perpendicular | ||
18 | ★★ Gear Shift
Traverse right from the belay of Night Shift (i.e. halfway up Full Sail) to Search and Destroy. Up this to finish. FFA: Ian Brown & Bob McMillan, 1988 | 40m | Point Perpendicular | ||
20 | Saving Grace
Start at a block below the middle of the wall on the right of the arete.
FA: Ian Brown & Peter Blunt, 1988 | 35m, 2 | Point Perpendicular | ||
18 | ★★ Red Shift
Traverse at half height from the arete of Some Weird Sin to the corner of Man Overboard. Start up the initial small corner of Hungry Eyes, or continue on from Blazing Jugs. | 35m | Point Perpendicular | ||
25 | Don't Rock the Block
Start in the middle of the wall just right of Saving Grace.Up past ring bolts then bypass the dodgy block on the left to gain the Full Sail ledge. Finish as for Full Sail. FA: Glenn Jones, Mike Peck & Bob McMillan | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
19 | Aloha
Unpleasant. Start at extreme L end of Ocean Boulevard. Belay off some blocks at the bottom of the obvious buttress. L around the nose, then up, then L to longish ledge. Up middle of wall past flakes. Up corner, then huge flake on L wall. Finish up the crack on the L to avoid the top part of the flake (loose). FFA: Peter Blunt & Ian Brown, 1986 | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ||
26 | ★ Liquid Lunch
The R-ward leaning major diagonal flake on the R side of Windjammer Wall. Start a couple of metres R of Feeding Frenzy, about 10m below a small rooflet. Up, tending R to a U-bolt at beginning of flake, then follow the flake and crack diagonally R to the top. FFA: Steve Monks? | 30m, 1 | Point Perpendicular |
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