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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
Albert Terrace
20 Peggy Peggy Phew

Move straight up to the third bolt then move right before finishing.

FA: Paul Roberts, 1997

Sport 11m, 5
Ampitheatre Wall
20 Close to the Edge

FA: Tony Burnell, 2005

Sport 20m, 4
20 Fragile

FA: Tony Burnell, 2005

Sport 20m, 5
20 Simon’s Line

FA: Simon Courtois, 10 Jun 2020

Sport 20m, 6
20 Rising Damp

FA: Tony Burnell, 2005

Sport 22m, 6
20 Thin Wall Special

FA: Tony Burnell, 2005

Sport 20m, 5
Barnett Park The Cave
20 Infinity Times Two

Single bolt anchor. Significant earthquake damage/ choss at the top. Dangerous.

FA: Perry Logan

Sport 15m, 3
20 Barnett Fair Sport
Barnett Park Leech Wall
20 Konnichiwa

FA: Tony Burnell, Aug 2014

Sport 17m
20 Bailo

FA: Simon Courtois

Sport
Closed Bivvy Rock
20 We Ain’t Playing Tiddlywinks, Mate

FA: Howie McGee, 2012

Sport 20m, 6
20 Cold Ground

FA: Dave Shotwell, 2008

Sport 20m, 5
20 Let Me Sleep On It

FA: Simon Courtois, 2007

Sport 20m, 7
The Black Wall and Valley of Swallows
20 Domino Effect

FA: Tony Burnell, 2016

Sport 5
20 Naval

FA: Tony Billing, 1998

Sport 12m, 5
20 Learning to Fly

FA: Simon Courtois, Apr 2016

Sport 15m, 7
20 Chain Reaction

FA: Grant Piper, Jun 2016

Sport 12m, 4
20 Die Yuppie Die

FA: Athol Whimp, 1991

Trad
20 Principal

FA: Bill McLeod, 1991

Trad
Boulder Bay
20 Achilles

FA: Lindsay Main, 1979

Trad
Breeze Bay The Boiler Room
19/20 Simon’s Line

FA: Simon Courtois, Sep 2021

Sport 7
Breeze Bay West Crag
20 Blow Hard

FA: Tony Burnell, 2021

Sport 4
20 Hurricane Lili

FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1996

Top rope
Breeze Bay East Crag
20 Pate

FA: Joe Arts, 1996

Trad 7m
20 Neapolitan

FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1996

Mixed trad 14m, 2
Bridle Path Boulders
V2 Refresh

Start with left hand on side pull and right hand on V cut.

Boulder 5m
V1 East Face Warmup

SS on the good slopper then head straight up.

Boulder 5m
V2 Paint Face Left Boulder 7m
V1 Snow White Boulder 6m
V2 Zig Zag Boulder 6m
V2 Micron

Sit start on LH sidepull pinch, RH diagonal edge, with a right heel hook. Slap up the arête, topping out at the highest point (a full 2m!). Avoiding the dab is the crux.

Boulder 2m
V1 The Stoic Buddhist

Sit start matched on the big jug, feet in tiny cave. If you feel like working a lil harder don't use the arete.

Boulder 2m
V1 V1

Sit start on the lowest of the edges on the obtuse arête. Build your hands then head for the top.

Boulder 2m
V2 Pumpy 1

Start on the right arete traverse to the left side arete and top out.

Boulder 3m
V1 Meatloaf Meander

Traverse right to left. Start at shelf by grey intrusion

Boulder 5m
V2 Beefcake Crack

Slab side of Beefcake Boulder. Sitstart right hand crimp, left undercling, follow vertical crack to topout

Boulder 2m
V2 Beefcake Arete

Same start as Crack and Slab, follow horizontal crack to obvious hold, top out using arete

Boulder 2m
V1 Bridge to Terabithia Boulder 4m
V2 The Code of Dabbing Boulder 4m
Britten Crag The Zoo
20 Gorilla At Large

Start as for Kingfisher and move right on to the slab below the overhang.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Sport 16m, 3
Britten Crag Fence Buttress
20 The Vertical Limit

Bolted line right of Hippocratic Oaf.

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Sport 15m
Britten Crag Hebe Jebe Wall
20 R of Passage

FA: Dave Shotwell, 2000

Sport 10m, 3
20 Hebe Jebe

FA: Simon Courtois, 1998

Sport 15m, 5
20 Cracked Rib

Three bolts up the arete, and another one when merging with Hebe Jebe. No anchors, the suggestion is to use the anchors for Hebe Jebe.

FA: John Entwistle, 2017

Sport 15m, 4
Britten Crag The Shelf
20 The Pink Panther

FA: Tony Burnell, 23 Apr 2019

Sport 15m, 5
20 Shelf Life

Just right of Top Shelf. Climb through the small roof on to the wall, then finish as for Top Shelf.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2001

Sport 10m, 3
20 Bottom Shelf

FA: Tony Burnell, 23 Apr 2019

Sport 10m, 5
Britten Crag Legends Wall
20 Step On It

FA: Simon Courtois, 2020

Sport 15m, 4
20 The Adjustment Bureau

FA: Tony Burnell, 2014

Sport 15m, 4
Britten Crag Tiger Wall
20 Three's Company

Start on top of the yellow lichen-covered boulder. Pull over the roof (second bolt to the right) and up to a detached book-like flake. Finish up the easier groove above.

FA: Pere Logan, 2000

Sport 13m, 4
20 The Big Lebowski

At last, a 20 with bite - borderline 21. Direct route up the undercut arête. Committing moves with hard pulls to the second bolt, then easier to the top. Four bolts and a lowering bolt

FA: Dave Shotwell, 1998

Sport 10m, 4
Britten Crag Bathroom Vanity Area
20 It's A Mystery To Me

A couple of metres right is this nice route up a steepening wall and over a small bulge near the top. Four bolts, chain link anchors just over the lip. .

FA: Andrew Buist, 2000

Sport 18m, 5
20 What R U Reckon?

Two metres right is a line of six bolts (top one hidden) up a straightforward wall to a small roof and into a groove. Excellent climbing - easy to the fourth bolt, then technical moves to the top. Abseil anchors slightly rightwards.

FA: cragrat, 1998

Sport 14m, 6
Britten Crag The Alcove
20 Half Breed

Hard pulling to get through the roof, joining Endless Summer after the third bolt.

FA: Richard Kimberley, 2001

Sport 15m, 5
Britten Crag Winter Wall
20 Naughty But Nice

FA: Simon Middlemass, 1993

Sport 16m, 5
20 A Great Day For Up

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Mixed trad 1
20 Scar Tissue

Start immediately to the right of the earthquake scar. A technical face leads to steeper terrain higher up.

FA: Tony Burnell, 27 Apr 2022

Sport 13m, 4
Britten Crag Hitchhiker Wall
20 A Big Thumbs Up

FA: Tony Burnell, 2022

Sport 5
20 Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

FA: Andrew Buist, 2000

Sport 15m, 5
Britten Crag Closed Shit Buttress
20 Excremental Exhaustion

FA: Tony Burnell, 2001

Sport 5
Britten Crag Spyglass Wall
20 The Subterraneans

FA: Joe Arts, 2000

Sport 20m, 6
Britten Crag Gorse Wall
20 Cracked Up

FA: John Iseli, 2000

Trad
Britten Crag Yellow Wall
20 Black & Blue

FA: Tony Burnell, 2001

Sport 5
20 It's Only Natural

FA: John Iseli, 2001

Trad
20 Prowler

FA: John Iseli, 2001

Sport 15m, 5
Britten Crag Flax Wall
20 Cookie Monster

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Mixed trad 15m, 3
20 Identity Crisis

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Mixed trad 2
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Blackboard
20 Who Killed Bambi?

FA: Tim Morrison, 1981

Trad 8m
20 Watch Closely Now

FA: John Allen, 1978

Trad 4m
20 Pepperoni Breakfast

FA: John Allen, 1978

Trad 5m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Watchtower Face
20 The Zephyr
Trad 15m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Barbican Wall
20 Whingeing Mick

FA: Dave Fearnley, 1979

Trad 13m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Cannonball Gully
20 Corkscrew
Trad 7m
20 Marc Bolan Memorial Arête

FA: John Allen, 1978

Trad 13m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Keep
20 Executioner

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

FA: John Barnett, 1974

Trad 15m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Hellfire Gully
20 Savage Slipstream

FA: Rick McGregor, 1977

Trad 14m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Palisades
20 Citadel

FA: Lindsay Main, 1998

Trad
20 Yogi's Dream

FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1980

Trad 7m
20 Lifestyle Asset

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

FA: Joe Arts, 1997

Trad 10m
20 Marshal Zhukov

FA: Joe Arts, 1998

Mixed trad 8m, 2
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Battlements
20 Excalibur

The climb has sustained earthquake damage at the top.

FA: Don Hutton, 1967

Trad 12m
Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Redoubt
20 Social Ostrich

FA: Richard Thomson

Trad
Cattlestop Crag Shimmering Jelly Wall
20 Shimmering Jelly

Optional nut placement before 1st bolt. Otherwise, strenuous and technical climbing to second bolt where it eases off.

FA: Pete Sykes

Sport 12m, 2
Cattlestop Crag Solar Wall
20 Pinched

FA: Neil Sloan, 1992

Sport 10m, 2
20 Dance To A Different Tune

Avoid using the crack and climb the face directly past the bolts to the juggy finish.

FA: Simon Middlemass, 1992

Sport 13m, 3
20 Solar Powered

Nice face climbing on small holds.

FA: Neil Sloan, 1992

Sport 13m, 4
Cattlestop Crag Surgical Strike Wall
20 Violet Crumble

FA: Bruce Dorwick, 1990

Sport 12m, 4
20 Satanic Verses

FA: Paul Tattersall, 1990

Sport 15m, 3
20 Eleven Forty

FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1996

Trad
Cattlestop Crag The Rest
20 Pop

Short steep jug hauling at the far left of the Surgical Strike Wall. Basically a highball boulder problem.

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Sport 8m, 2
20 Fingers Fred

FA: John Entwisle, 2010

Sport 10m, 4
20 Blonde Tornado

FA: Mike Atkinson, 2005

Sport 8m, 4
Coalditz
20 Humpty Dumpty Tries Rock-climbing Unknown
Crag X
20 When You're Hot You're Hot

FA: Lindsay Main, 1997

Mixed trad 2
20 Guilty as Charged

FA: Simon Courtois, 11 Jan 2020

Sport 15m, 6
20 Black Magic

Damaged during the earthquakes.

FA: Lindsay Main, 1999

Mixed trad 4
20 Something Fishy

FA: Joe Arts, 1992

Mixed trad 14m, 3
20 Simon’s Line

FA: Simon Courtois, 2020

Sport 6
20 Crash Cow Machine

FA: Joe Arts, 1980

Sport 12m, 2
20 Existential Climber

FA: Brian Fish, 1980

Mixed trad 12m, 1

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