Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Ōtautahi / Christchurch City EQC | |||||
V1 | Renovations
Jump and grab the jug on the corner of the arette and haul yourself up. Front door features are out. | 2m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Albert Terrace | |||||
19 | Jesus Carries The Can | ||||
19 | ★ Naked Ape
A squeeze route between 'Rongbuk' and 'Peggy Peggy Phew' using their bolts as protection and traditional gear. FA: Ross Cullen, 1997 | 11m, 2 | |||
19 | Postman Road
FA: Stu Mconney, 1999 | 1 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Ampitheatre Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Gray Matter
FA: Simon Courtois, Apr 2018 | 28m, 9 | |||
19 | ★★★ Rain Dancer
FA: Grant Piper, 2005 | 28m, 8 | |||
19 | ★ Stanley Street
FA: Tony Burnell, 2005 | 25m, 5 | |||
19 | ★ Gas Guzzler
FA: Tony Burnell, 2005 | 25m, 6 | |||
19 | ★★ Groper
FA: Tony Burnell, 23 May 2020 | 30m, 9 | |||
19 | Flounder
FA: Tony Burnell, 2020 | 10 | |||
19 | Excursion
FA: Tony Burnell, 2005 | 20m, 5 | |||
19 | ★★★ The Long Way Home
FA: Simon Courtois, 16 May 2020 | 30m, 9 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park The Escarpment | |||||
19 | Psychological Problems
FA: Pete Gresham, 2004 | ||||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park The Cave | |||||
19 | Light Duties
FA: Richard Kimberley, 1998 | ||||
19 | Tequila Layback | ||||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park The Great Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Orient Express
FA: Tony Burnell, Jul 2014 | 15m, 5 | |||
19 | ★★ Tsingtao
FA: Tony Burnell, Jul 2014 | 15m, 5 | |||
19 | Boy From China
FA: Chen, Jul 2014 | 15m | |||
19 | ★ Chicken Head Road
FA: Tony Burnell, 2014 | 10m, 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park Leech Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Ergo
FA: Simon Courtois | 17m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park Sunnyside | |||||
19 | ★ 101-2=99
FA: Pam Yee, Oct 2015 | ||||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Barnett Park Sunset Slab | |||||
19 | Chens Norwegian Love Child
FA: Pam Yee | 12m, 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Closed Bivvy Rock | |||||
19 | ★ Brokeback Mountain
FA: Simon Courtois | 15m, 7 | |||
19 | ★ Ground Zero
FA: Grant Piper, 2017 | 22m, 7 | |||
19 | Black Humour
FA: Grant Piper, 2017 | 20m, 7 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills The Black Wall and Valley of Swallows | |||||
19 | All On Edge
FA: Tony Burnell, 2016 | 4 | |||
19 | ★ Glimmer
FA: Craig Smith, 1998 | 4 | |||
19 | Exceeding The Quota
FA: Craig Smith, 1998 | 5 | |||
19 | ★★ Dangelina Jolie
FA: Simon Courtois, Apr 2016 | 10m | |||
19 | ★ Between The Lines
FA: Tony Burnell, Apr 2016 | 15m, 6 | |||
19 | ★ Half Man, Half Biscuit
FA: Gavin Tweedie, 1991 | 15m, 2 | |||
19 | Winky The One Eyed Snake
FA: Simon Courtois, Apr 2016 | 10m, 4 | |||
19 | ★★ Miro
FA: Pete Sykes, 1991 | 5 | |||
19 | Aplomb
Sneak past the big hollow flake. FA: Simon Cortois, 2021 | 12m, 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Breeze Bay The Boiler Room | |||||
19 | ★ Keelhaul
FA: Tony Burnell, 2021 | 20m, 5 | |||
19 | ★★ Steam Punk
FA: Simon Courtois, Sep 2021 | 20m, 6 | |||
19/20 | ★ Simon’s Line
FA: Simon Courtois, Sep 2021 | 7 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Breeze Bay West Crag | |||||
19 | Roaring Forties
FA: Lindsay Main, 1996 | 12m | |||
19 | Twister
FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1996 | 8m | |||
19 | Sirocco
FA: Lindsay Main, 1996 | 14m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Breeze Bay East Crag | |||||
19 | Tossed Salad
FA: Joe Arts, 1996 | 8m | |||
19 | Pin Pincher
FA: Joe Arts, 1997 | 8m, 1 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Bridle Path Boulders | |||||
V1 | ★ East Face Warmup
SS on the good slopper then head straight up. | 5m | |||
V1 | Snow White | 6m | |||
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. | 2m | |||
V1 | ★ V1
Sit start on the lowest of the edges on the obtuse arête. Build your hands then head for the top. | 2m | |||
V1 | ★ Meatloaf Meander
Traverse right to left. Start at shelf by grey intrusion | 5m | |||
V1 | ★ Bridge to Terabithia | 4m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag The Zoo | |||||
19 | Chicken Run
1m right of the wide crack, straight up the face. FA: Lindsay Main, 2000 | ||||
19 | ★ Elephant Beer
Just right of Kingfisher. Climb a slabby wall, then follow a groove up to the roof. Pull through the roof and finish on the steep face. FA: Tony Burnell, 2000 | 2 | |||
19 | ★ Where's My Gorilla?
Start as for Gorilla At Large, and traverse right at the first bolt. FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000 | 16m, 3 | |||
19 | ★ Ringing The Change
Start as for Wine And Beer It to the first bolt, then continue up the groove on the right of the arete. Shares an anchor with Transmogrification. FA: Tony Burnell, 2000 | 11m, 4 | |||
19 | ★★ Transmogrification
Climb up the middle of the prominent wall with an overhang at the top. FA: Neil Sloan, 1993 | 11m, 4 | |||
19 | ★ Rockweiller
A short wall two metres right, with a left-leaning crack. FA: Neil Sloan, 1993 | ||||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag The Roofs | |||||
19 | Is The Pope A Catholic?
On the arete at the left end of the wall. FA: Lindsay Main, 2000 | 1 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Fence Buttress | |||||
19 | ★ The Sequel
FA: Tony Burnell, 14 Nov 2019 | 11m, 5 | |||
19 | The Sequels Prequel
FA: Tony Burnell, 14 Nov 2019 | 12m, 5 | |||
19 | ★★ Applying for Superann
Climb the face, up a thin crack and over the overhang on the right. FA: John Entwisle | 15m, 7 | |||
19 | Wardrobe Malfunction
Grooved arête between The Vertical Limit and Michael Is Janet. FA: John Entwisle | 15m, 3 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag The Shelf | |||||
19 | ★★ Top Shelf
Black wall at the left end of the Shelf. FA: Tony Burnell, 2001 | 10m, 3 | |||
19 | The Unclimbed Crack
Just right of Off The Shelf, climb to the right of the obvious crack through a bulge. Finish on the anchors of Legends In The Baking. FA: Tony Burnell, 2000 | 17m | |||
19 | ★★ Sourdough on the Side
FA: Tony Burnell, 2018 | 17m, 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Legends Wall | |||||
19 | ★★ Legends In The Baking
In the middle of the wall. Start with a steep bouldery sequence up through a small roof to the first bolt, or you can start right of the vege and move left above the roof. Then straight up past the second bolt and directly over a small roof with cool holds. Continue straight up the face with the last bolt out left. Two-ring anchor. FA: cragrat, 1998 | 17m, 6 | |||
19 | Trad Bash 2000
Follow a faint right-trending crack then over a slight bulge. Good protection. FA: Lindsay Main, 2000 | ||||
19 | Pinnacle Groove
Climb up a smooth wall to a ledge and join the groove and crack above. Tend right to finish up a steep crack, ending at the rap station to the left of Tres Estrellas De Oro. FA: Tony Burnell, 2000 | ||||
19 | Rib Eye
Climb the right side of the arête in Whispers And Moans. There are wire placements in the short crack on the arête and a cam placement in the corner to the right, plus wires further up. Finish as for Whispers And Moans. FA: Tony Burnell, 2000 | ||||
19 | ★ Cereal Killer
Start as for Face-Off but climb the groove through a bulge, tending left then up to the top. FA: Lindsay Main, 2002 | 16m, 4 | |||
19 | One That Got Away
FA: Tony Burnell, 2022 | 5 | |||
19 | ★ Get To Jugs
Start 5 metres left of Tiger Wall, up a short wall with a white lichenous ledge above. FA: Lindsay Main, 2002 | 12m, 4 | |||
19 | Anon
Start right of Get to Grips, then climb leftwards across the Mis-spent Youth crack. Finish on the top left of the Tiger Wall. FA: 2014 | 15m, 4 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Bathroom Vanity Area | |||||
19 | ★ Fart Face
Two metres right, easy climbing straight up past the first 3 bolts. From square-edged hold about a metre left of the 4th bolt some nice moves take you right and up through some angled features past the 5th bolt toward a small rounded overhanging roof. Double ring anchors. FA: Andrew Buist, 2010 | 17m, 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Angel Face | |||||
18/19 | ★ God's Teeth
Start at the lowest point of the slab, 2m left of the corner. Can share anchor with Bury the Brass, the 17 to the left, for sport climbing. FA: Hugh Matthews, 1997 | 15m, 3 | |||
19 | ★ Angel Wings
Left facing corner at the edge of a small cave. FA: Hugh Matthews, 1997 | 15m, 2 | |||
19 | ★ Adios Ingo
Pull through the roof a metre right of Release The Wombats. FA: Richard Kimberley, 2000 | 13m, 4 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Winter Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Speak Hers Corner
FA: Ngaio Colville, 1993 | 14m, 4 | |||
19 | ★ El Dorado
Destroyed during the earthquakes. | ||||
19 | Self Discipline
FA: Joe Arts, 2000 | 12m, 2 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag The Caves | |||||
19 | ★ No Fushia
FA: Simon Courtois, 2020 | 10m, 6 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Cabbage Tree Wall | |||||
19 | 1914
Climb the somewhat crumbly slab to the right of the roof. FA: Tony Burnell, 2020 | 7 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Hitchhiker Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Mostly Harmless
FA: Stu Allan, 2003 | 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Spyglass Wall | |||||
19 | The Big Mac Combo | 20m, 5 | |||
19 | Main Street
FA: Simon Courtois, 2020 | 20m, 6 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Gorse Wall | |||||
19 | ★★ Biltong Beta
FA: Tony Burnell, 2020 | 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Yellow Wall | |||||
19 | Simon & Dave's Trad Line
FA: Simon Courtois, 2000 | ||||
19 | ★★ Ara Takahanga
FA: Tony Burnell, 2001 | 15m, 4 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Oasis Wall | |||||
19 | Helter Skelter
FA: Tak Honda, Sep 2020 | 5 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Britten Crag Flax Wall | |||||
19 | ★ Circadian Rhythm
FA: Simon Cortois, 2020 | 15m, 6 | |||
19 | Finger It Out
FA: Simon Coutois, 2009 | 8m, 3 | |||
19 | Edge of Nowhere
FA: Simon Courtois, 2020 | 8m, 3 | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Watchtower Face | |||||
19 | Sea Breezes
FA: John Allen | 15m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Barbican Wall | |||||
19 | ★★ Alhambra
FA: Bill Denz, 1971 | 12m | |||
19 | ★ Senile Decay
FA: Joe Arts, 1980 | 11m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Cannonball Gully | |||||
19 | ★★ Rawhide
FA: Rob Rainsbury, 1972 | 13m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Curtain Wall | |||||
19 | Archer
Destroyed during the earthquakes. FA: Lindsay Main, 1979 | 9m | |||
19 | Full Moon
Destroyed during the earthquakes. FA: Martyn Clark, 1992 | 8m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock Gargoyle Wall | |||||
19 | Between A Rock And A Hard Place
FA: Paul Jackson | 12m | |||
19 | ★ Apollo
| 9m | |||
19 | Petrel
| 9m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Keep | |||||
19 | ★ Gibbet
Destroyed during the earthquakes. FA: Rob Rainsbury, 1971 | 12m | |||
Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua / The Port Hills Te Tihi-o-Kahukara / Castle Rock The Ziggurat | |||||
19 | Lightning Conductor
FA: Phil Stuart-Jones, 1997 | 4m |