Routes in Western Cape for selected grade

Sitstart and climb the desperate zigzag seam with long reaches to awesome TO.

Hang-start at the back of the roof on the right, move up through the roof using compression moves to exit the cave and end on a crimp to the left of the crack.

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Sit-start on crimps, move up and then left to join Seventh Subject.

Start as for Swim Coach and head up right to join U19 Girls Basketball.

FA by Marijus Šmigelskis

Jarryd New

It’s a right exit to The Temple of Boom from the knee bar where you do 3 really hard moves (around 8A) - Nicholas Allan

8a.nu link.

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SS on pedestal, climb thru short roof to join Chaos, then finish as for Chaos

Hard, maybe even 8B-ish, Start in low crack, follow arete to top out on the slab.

Around 8A/8A+, follow arete, exit up face about half way.

David Naude

Rowan Toselli

Climb the blank face to the right of D3.

Unrepeated, potentially harder since key foot broke off a few years ago.

Climb straight up the middle of the face.

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Sit-start R of Powerlines and climb the roof diagonally L to TO.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

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Climb the steep roof on obvious holds.

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Rowan Toselli 2016

Left variant to Skobbejak.

Nicholas Allan

Calrin Curtis

Right variant of Skobbejak

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

Starts as Cloverfield and blasts left to the sloper.

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cool little power bloc on the cloverfield boulder! - Paul Robinson

Nicholas Allan

Rowan Toselli 2015

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Start on wall to right of the roof. Traverse roof leftwards on slots, edges, pinches etc to exit on left. One of the most impressive roof problems in Africa and the hardest at the Topside.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

Nicholas Allan

Rowan Toselli

Calrin Curtis

Roof extension to Marlboro Man

David Naude

Do marlboro man but when you get the high slot move right to a big bread loaf pinch and top out right.

2nd Ascent by Paul Robinson

On Magik Bloks?

James Barnes

Calrin Curtis

Left exit of Choc Kits

wow. saw it from afar, was like woah this thing could be sick... and it WAS!!! then made landing all good and took er d right before the sunset! mmm choc kits - Paul Robinson

Start as for Drag Queen, but climb right on bad crimps and big spans into Dark Matter.

FA by Luke Eberhard

Video: Nicholas Allan

Sit start with the flat undercling at the bottom of the wall and climb straight up and out.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

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Ground Swell into Shark Biscuit.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

Start as Escapade and climb right through the cave along the obvious holds to top out at the far right end of the cave on jugs.

Second ascent by Nicholas Allan

Stand start, climb up the bulge avoiding the crack on the left to top out.

Beautiful climb! Perfect compression on glassy slopers.

Ascent Footage - Rowan Toselli

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

Giuliano Cameroni

Calrin Curtis

Climb just right of original line

Sit start to Warfare.

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Climb war and peace but climb over left and finish on midst of chaos direct

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start at the back of the large roof, climb to the slopey lip and finish up left. "Supergeil"

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Jump to the large hold, move left to edges then up the middle of the face

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start and climb the face on slopers finishing right.

Sit-start with slopers, climb through the low roof and finish up left on slopers. Originally graded 8a but it was reopened by Christian Core in '05 after a couple of key holds broke in the roof

Irina Kuzmenko - mellow

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Climb the seam

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Climb Black Spider but halfway along the traverse climb up leftwards up using a small pocket

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Sit-start with slopey left hand & right pocket, dyno up and climb into Green Mamba.

Black Eagle before the hold broke

The original start to Black Eagle is broken and now the route is much different and a full grade more difficult.

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Start as Steak House but climb through the long roof and finish as Winnie. "Opened on Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday"

Start with the high rail (avoiding the boulder on the right) and climb straight out of the cave finishing with a throw to the lip.

Climb through the roof and finish with your feet above the lip.

Sit-start low with matched hands and climb into Leopard Cave.

Sit-start with crimp rail and climb leftwards out the cave.

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James Webb: "One of the best new lines up in Cedar Rouge! Just by Green Mamba. Cheers to the Wookz for helping construct the landing"

Bob Volte into L’Homme Sans Qualité.

Sit-start with left hand on a small crimp and climb up through the bulge. This one eliminates all the good holds on the Mary's Roof.

Climb the high arête. "Named after the Iker's dead dog"

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Crouch-start on the right side of the undercling and climb out leftwards.

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Climb up right from a good hold on the left. "Named after a famous book about South Africa during the 1940's"

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Start as Schwupp but from the jug climb out right on small holds.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Start with Resonance but after a few moves into the traverse use "Ninja tactics" to gain the large flake.

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Start with both hands on the rail and climb into Un Pincon d'Herbes.

To the left Amber Is the Color of Energy. Climb up and dyno.

Start as Pendragon but from the good incut in the roof dyno out to the lip.

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Oriane Bertone

A mega link-up of A Matter of Power and Out of Balance.

Sit-start below prow (The base is lower after rocks were moved).

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start with the rail, climb out to the lip and traverse left through the roof and finish up as for Colin the Librarian. "Compression"

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Max Bertone

Climb The Vice halfway to pinch on the lip and then up the face using small crimps.

Start as Fat Eagles Don't Fly and finish as JC's Fortress Experience.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan on Instagram

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Low roof to the left of Armed Response. Opened as 8B by Daniel Woods in 2008. In 2016 a hold broke and opened up a slot in one of the rails, which made it easier, 8A+.

It’s a new slot hold that you can take with the left hand on the 2nd rail after the right hand pinch. If you check older videos e.g. Jesse Bonin 2009 you can see no slot crack and no chalk on the rail. People went up right hand to a further rail.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start #SD with large sidepull, move to gaston and climb straight up.

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Oriane Bertone

Start as Supa Ape... but move into a gaston then to a crimp and throw up right.

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Sit-start with right hand on undercling, move up on small crimps then move left and top of left of the arete.

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From good holds throw up to the lip. "The sit remains a project"

Start below prow with slopers, move right to crimp and climb up.

Sit-start on the right and climb out with thin crack.

Start in the cave and climb out right with compression moves.

Climb the overhang.

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Start as The Section but halfway along the rail climb out right.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start below prow and climb out right

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Sit-start with good hold, campus climb out right.

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Sit-start on the left and climb into The War of Attrition.

Sit-start low, move to large sloper hold and climb into Rancor Monster

Sit-start on the right and climb left through the roof

Start with rail and climb up orange streaked wall with capped roof.

Video: Paul Robinson (8a+)

Sit-start with pockets and traverse out right to the arête.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Two dynos gets you through the overhanging wall.

Crouch-start under roof with jug, move out and climb up featured face to a committing finish.

Start as Step by Step but traverse left on rail and climb up the arête.

Sit-start with rail and climb out on seam.