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10 The Amphitheatre

Start where Garbage Guts Gully reaches the halfway ledge.

  1. 18m Corner then wall to overhang.

  2. 33m Crack then traverse right and up face to tree.

  3. 6m Traverse over slabs to top.

13 M0 Reunion Hangover

Start 100m right of The Amphitheatre.

  1. 25m Corner to ledge then through overhang. Up corner to gully.

  2. 25m (13MO) Chimney to boulder. Up right to large tree.

  3. ?m Scramble gully to top.

11 Jam Boot Crack

Start 40m right of Reunion Hangover.

  1. 15m (11) Up crack to tree.

  2. 30m Up to top.

12 Yellow Electric Dragon

Start 10m right of Jam Boot Crack.

  1. 25m Slab then right into off width and chimney.

  2. 25m Left and past block, up slab then crack to top.

11 The Dragon's Back

Start as for YED.

  1. 25m Up and traverse right onto arete. Straight up to ledge.

  2. 25m Descend via gully on right.

9 Little Face

Start 5m right of YED.

  1. 12m Up to small tree.

  2. 30m (9) Up groove to top.

15 Blue Beard

Start 300m Right of LF.

  1. 30m (15) Up to blue band, traverse left, over band and right to cave.

  2. 30m Up to left cave.

  3. 15m To top.

14 The Slab Climb

Start 50m Right of Blue Band.

  1. 8m Slab to ledge.

  2. 38m (14) Slab from ledge, trending left to tree. Up gully to top.

17 Old Baldy Wall Route

Start beneath bolts on slab 80m right of The Slab Climb.

  1. (17) Slab to ledge 5m beneath bolts then right and up for 4m. Move back to bolts and up to ledge. Bolt anchor.

  2. Traverse left and up to ledge. Traverse right to bolt runner. Continue right then up to bolt anchor.

  3. Diagonally left for 15m to bolt then up to diagonal crack.

  4. Up to top.

17 Wall Route/ Sword of Damocles Combo

Go up Wall route for 2 pitches to big traverse ledge. Belay on single bolt/horn/cam. Easy traverse 35m right to trees (not much gear!). Go up last two pitches of 'Sword of Damocles'. Beware of very loose and very big blocks at belay station at top of pitch 3 of Sword of Damocles.

16 M5 Sword of Damocles

Start 80m left of Old Baldy Wall Route left of three cracks.

  1. 21m (16M5) Up to base of corner. Up flaring crack to roof. Roof to lip. Up jugs to small stance.

  2. 40m Crack and chimney to ledge on left.

  3. 30m Crack and chimney corner to stance above blocks.

  4. 15m Bulge and up to top.

17 Excalibur
  1. 12m Up sandy corner to stance in a cave (1 old bolt)

  2. 15m (16) Exciting move for the grade out cave and up to a small stance (or run P2&3 together)

  3. 27m (15) Up crack and over slight bulge, continue to a stance at the base of a right facing corner.

  4. 24m (17) Up crack and over bulge to a small stance 5m above a small tree.

  5. 22m (17) Climb bulge and up the headwall to the top. Dirty and not much gear towards the top. Belay of trees and bushes back from the edge.

Can be done in 3 pitches by linking P1 & P2, and either P3 & P4 or P4 & P5.

20 The Day of the Long Knives

Start 5m below Scimitar pedestal on left hand side. Belays bolted P1. 22m grade 18. Traverse left 6m and then up right facing faint corner 6BR #4 Camelot and medium cams. P2. 23m grade 19. Right and up thin wall 6 BR and small cams P3. 28m grade 20. Up and left to base of thin crack (Central direct) Thread, and continue up and left 6BR (Hard to spot) medium cams belay on ledge. P4. 19m grade 16. Out left and up to top. Tree belay. Trees in reasonable condition.

21 Stiletto

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18 Central Direct

Engaging climbing, with exposure and the odd run-out. Double ropes are good, Well protected if you can place gear. A good sphincter tightening experience for mutant latte drinking sport climbers. Rebolted 2007

Start: Start at the shattered pillar beneath crack on R side, which is 'Scimitar'. Shares start.

  1. 35m (18) Up crack then L and up wall past BRs to ledge with DBB.

  2. 18m (16) Wall, bulge, BR's to ledge with DBB

  3. 35m (17) L to thin crack and up, BR's, to roof then up to belay in small cave.

  4. 20m (15) Up and traverse L then wander on up via ledges and breaks to DBB on top. Rap anchors nearby for descent.

18 Scimitar

The right-hand crack line on Upper Baldy. Four pitches with P2 being the crux. Most climb it in two pitches but it was originally climbed in four. Start up the left (diagonal) crack off the top of the huge treed pillar (as shown in topo), although traversing the lip to the RH (vertical) crack has also been done. Once on top, the Stiletto abseil anchors (DRB) are only 15m to your left (west), it's 2 45m abseils back to the halfway ledge.

18 Knife of Air Variant Start

Start as for Scimitar. Up Scimitar or wall on right to alcove at 10m. Traverse right (2BRs) to anchor 1 of Knife of Air. Mike Law, Stephen Hamilton 1994

24 Knife of Air

Super sustained on carrots up wall. Thin and pumpy technical climbing. BRs are well spaced . Start 6m right of the scramble up route to Scimitar.

  1. 25m (24) Stick clip double BR above lip of overhang, then top-rope out to lip of cave and up the loose arete. Step right, up thin and pumpy wall (6 to 8 BRs) to hanging 3BB.

  2. 50m (23) The climbing wanders around in between the 10BRs. Step right, up rib to roof. Swing right along lip of roof to hanging 3BB.

  3. 45m (22) Up (10BRs, some hard to see).

20 Uprising

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13 Walhalla

Start at second big corner right of Old Baldy face.

  1. 33m Yellow rock to ledge. Small wall, left hand corner then traverse right to bulge and tree anchor.

  2. 25m Scramble to chimney.

  3. 25m Chimney to chockstone.

  4. 20m Chimney to top.

18 The Kingston Flyer

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19 Dirk

Start 200m right of Walhalla scramble.

  1. 30m (19) Crack to ledge then corner to ledge.

  2. 20m Corner then trend right up corner to tree. Abseil or down gully to the right.

12 The Eiger Sanction

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17 The Seeds of Death

Start 150m right of Dirk at overhang corner.

30m Over roof, up and through offwidth then over bulge.

16 Savanarola

Start 40m right of TSD.

Up crack and left wall. Walk down the back.

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