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Table of contents
- 1. Riverbend 51 in Area
- 2. Index by grade
1. Riverbend 51 routes in Area
- Summary:
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Trad climbing, Rock climbing and Sport climbing
Lat / Long: -41.481099, 147.243029
access issues
This cliff is on PRIVATE PROPERTY. Access has been generously granted by the land owner on the request that climbers shut the gate and behave, NO DOGS, avoid walking across cultivated fields. Access may be restricted seasonally due to lambing. Please do the right thing.
approach
Park uphill of the gate only (or alternatively at bridge car park). Jump gate 200m south of bend, cross field, through gap in trees ahead, down the hill and around the paddock to another gate which you can see from the tree line. Up next hill veering left to avoid prickles, then across open field hand-railing trees and river on left until finding large cairns at edge of slip marking descent gullies. No trail as such. Cairn is obvious.
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Crag Stewards
Rock climbers please contact the Crag Steward (eskriver@climbersclubtas.org.au) if you have any queries or concerns regarding social or environmental impacts of rock climbing at this crag.
Do not email regarding general travel, seasonal advice, or lost property - this is not the Steward’s role. If you have important safety information to communicate (e.g. risks due to recent and large rock falls) please also consider updates on thesarvo forum, Facebook group and/or online guidebooks as appropriate. Please copy in cct@climbersclubtas.org.au if you feel you have a high-level concern which may imminently impact the crag or climbing community.
Non-climbers, other users, land managers: please also contact cct@climbersclubtas.org.au if you have important climbing related queries at this location.
Other
• The operation and use of drones by park visitors on reserved land including national parks is not permitted
• Peregrine Falcons nest from July - December each year. It’s important that climbers don’t climb near active nests during this period. Known sites (non exhaustive) are: Sand River (Far East, The Panopticon), Bare Rock (R of the Boneyard, L of Bisso of Orange), Rocky Cape, Pubic Wall/Duck Reach, Hillwood, Gunners Quoin, Lowdina.
• Please note that Tasmania has notoriously patchy phone reception for particular service providers. Telstra is the most reliable. An emergency Personal Locator Beacon or similar is recommended kit when climbing in remote locations.
• For more information - follow the link below for some local tips + tricks on how to better reduce your impact during your next Tassie climbing holiday https://www.cragcaretasmania.org.au/learn
| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
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| 1 | Goind to my Hometown | 20 | 7m | |||||
| 2 | Secret Agent | 20 | 8m | |||||
| 3 | Tenderness of the Rock | 21 | 7m | |||||
Reculer Buttress | ||||||||
| 5 | Eyeful Tower | 12 | 12m | |||||
| 6 |
Vortex
FA: Danny Ng | 13 | 14m | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 7 | ★★ Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter | 21 | 14m | |||||
| 8 | Rock of Salvation | 23 | 13m | |||||
| 9 | Right Variant/Direct Start | 24 | 13m, 1 | |||||
| 10 |
★ Southern Stratospheric Warming Event
Climb the offwidth facing the river with big gear, trend left after, over some musical flakes with small gear and nice faceclimbing, mantle into the dihedral to climb to the DBB of OBCB FFA: Jeroen Jansen & Shelly Napier, 5 Dec 2019 | 17 | 14m | |||||
| 11 | ★ Only Boomerangs Come Back | 17 | 14m, 2 | |||||
| 12 | ★ Stretching the limits of possibility | 12 | 12m | |||||
| 13 | Who Done It | 22 | 12m, 1 | |||||
| 14 | ★ Eiffel Tower | 19 | 12m, 2 | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
Bullfrog Buttress | ||||||||
| 16 | Split Chips and Get Crook | 22 | 15m | |||||
| 17 | ★★ Bullfrogs | 18 | 15m | |||||
| 18 | Sedating the Freaks | 26 | 15m, 3 | |||||
| 19 | Pink Mountains of Unwilling Flesh | 22 | 15m | |||||
| 20 | Eureka I've Discovered Dolerite | 22 | 15m | |||||
| 21 |
★★ Sophie's Choice
A good hard route with bolts that are near impossible to reach from position , with the exception of the second. Rap and preplace for a good time. | 25 | 15m | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 22 | ★★ King of Kings | 24 | 15m | |||||
| 23 | Rip Your Lungs Out Jim | 22 | 15m | |||||
| 24 | ★ Inertia | 16 | 12m | |||||
| 25 | ★★ Kickstart | 19 | 11m | |||||
| 26 | ★ Initial Resistance | 18 | 15m | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
Northern Girls Buttress | ||||||||
| 28 | ★★ Northern Girls | 23 | 15m | |||||
| 29 | ★ Life Support | 17 | 15m | |||||
| 30 | Full House | 18 | 15m | |||||
| 31 | ★ Royal Flush | 18 | 15m | |||||
| 32 | The Last Minute | 23 | 10m, 3 | |||||
| 33 | The Final Quest | 24 | 12m, 4 | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 34 |
★★ As the Crow Flies
Twin cracks in a corner to ledge, then steep jamming and bridging. | 19 | 15m | |||||
| 35 | Born Again With Two Heads | 25 | 12m, 3 | |||||
| 36 |
Jesus Freak
Blank corner to ledge, then up face. | 24 | 6m | |||||
Claire Buttress | ||||||||
| 38 | ★★ Claire | 14 | 10m | |||||
| 39 | Scary Hairy Bear | 23 | 12m | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 40 | ★ In Your Town | 16 | 13m | |||||
| 41 |
★ Ankle Biter
3FH’s plus gear for the break. DBB | 23 | 10m, 3 | |||||
| 42 |
★ An Hours Knee Tremble with a Friend
The obvious handcrack through a mini roof located around the corner on the right hand end of Claire buttress. Take a big cam (BD #6) to protect the tricky exit moves. | 17 | 12m | |||||
| 43 | Illicit Lust | 18 | 12m | |||||
| 44 | I Like it Better When There's Not Much Choice | 17 | 10m | |||||
Powder Finger Buttress | ||||||||
| 46 |
Waiting for the Sun
Blunt arete R of gully. 2FH’s plus small cams. DBB | 16 | 2 | |||||
| 47 |
My Happiness
R of WDTS. 2FH’s plus small cams | 16 | 2 | |||||
| 48 | ★★ Ramrod | 17 | 10m | |||||
| 49 | No Nukes | 24 | 15m | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 50 | ★★ Powder Finger | 17 | 17m | |||||
| 51 |
★ Odyssey number 5
2 bolts. Small gear to DBB | 20 | 15m, 2 | |||||
| 52 | ★★★ Drive All Night | 24 | 17m | |||||
| 53 | Sticky Finger | 18 | 15m | |||||
| 54 |
★ Bolted Arete
Bolted arete 2m left of Possum Prostanthera. Name and first ascentionist unknown. | 25 | 8m, 3 | |||||
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| Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||||
| 55 |
★ Possum Prostanthera
3 bolts and abseil chains on top. Third last climb r/h end of cliff FA: Dennis Kearnes, 2002 | 19 | 8m | |||||
| 56 | ★★ Too Much Alcohol | 18 | 17m | |||||
