Routes in Rocky Cape

Direct start to Narrow Steps, following thin, technical crack

Follow inside corner of ramp to finish on face. Fractured quartzite and limited reliable gear, not the best beginners route.

1. Diagonally up through obvious wide crack

2. As for Zorro

3. Continue diagonally right through roof

1. Traverse L on gentle ramp to belay

2. Traverse R up crack/ramp, round corner to belay (2nd large poo stain and slings)

3. Up through roof on L then directly to easy territory. Slings to rap (30m) are ~5m to R.

1. Climb left leaning crack of Zorro to the intersection of cracks. Up and a bit left, climbing between Seven and Jamboree. Continue up Ent and belay at trees.

2. Continue up easy terrain to summit.

Descent: Sling boulder on summit & rappel 20m to summit of Zorro, then rappel fixed slings 28m to ground.

Crack on the left of the face

Start up Vader then traverse right across slab to poorly protected corner and up

Start to the right of the bottom of descent gully, follow crack to belay at slab. Traverse slab to R, and up prow to finish

Obvious gully to the left of Grandma Baz. Easy down scramble.

Start up Shelob Stairs for 4m, climb slab to R.

Some would say a terrible idea. The wide looking crack in the middle of the landwards face.

The crack 3m to the left of Chocolate and cruskits.

Meh. The line opposite the actual crag with a flake at the top. Title is self-explanatory.

Not a particularly pleasant experience. Up the obvious right hand crack of the face you first get to with some bushes about 5m below the top.

As the name implies, a slightly more pleasant line compared to its neighbour. The crack to the left of Manual disimpaction.

As above - at the massive rail on the left traverse left on this, up and then rejoin the line at the pod. Avoids the first reachy crux on Rorogwela.

Start about 3 metres to the left of Rorogwela. Up faint line, then up the the middle break. Straight up over a steep finish.

The lichenous looking crack 3m to the right of Chocolate and cruskits. Actually not a bad line with good exposure for the grade.

A stonker of a route, probably one of the best trad routes in the North-West. Named after a Solomon Island folk tune which was plagarised by the French band Deep Forest without due recognition. Obvious line on the seawards face of the crag. Start on block in the middle of the face, up this for about 5m, then move right to the start of the left-trending flake. Up this until there is a massive rail on the left - from here go straight up the the pod halfway up the climb. Have a good rest, look around and think about how amazing this spot is. Then up with a slight leftward trend to top - a fun crux sequence with incredible exposure.

The first 10-15m is pleasant steep climbing. The next line left of Hands-free manual disimpaction.

An excellent outing for the grade up the rounded orange arete. Plenty of gear and big holds where it steepens. Finish by squeezing into the chimney at the top, or (better) up the unprotected lichenous slab to the left.

Start at the wide crack R of Rorogwela, romp up over a few ledges and finish up Groupthink.

As for Rorogwela, but head R out of the pod to avoid the top crux. A good option when the swallows are nesting.