Routen in Kwa-Zulu Natal für ausgewählte Schwierigkeit

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A short but good problem. Start below the roof just right of C’est La Bon.  Climb straight through the middle of the roof then directly up the face on some dinky little holds. A no 1 friend protects the roof move. Thereafter gear is thin.  Quite scary and seen only 6 ascents as far as I know.

This steep line is the left-hand line found on the short wall at the base of the scramble. It is largely protected by wires but has a single bolt to protect the crux. Powerful climbing on clean rock leads to a crux which lives up to the route's name. This route is seldom climbed.

Date and star grading unknown, but it looks about three star. Follow the bolts up the thin face between Technical Ecstasy and Vertigo.

Start two metres right of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Climb straight up on micro-thin edges past two bolts, and then up just right of a crack to a rail. Step right at the rail and then up the wall past a crescent-shaped pocket.

Start to the right of Frazzle. Climb the crack/groove onto a block. Climb directly up the wall above the bolt. A very small friend or TCU protects the exit.

Start next to the pillar from which Wild Sky starts. Climb the easy wall to the left to a detached block (peg). Pull over the bulge and climb up to a small roof and up the groove past another peg.

Starts as for Superbrat/Top Heavy. Climb the first moves of Superbrat, but break through the roof immediately to the left of the peg on the lip. Climb the face to a rail and then straight through the bulges above. Finish directly up the face above.

Starts as for Top Heavy. Climb up to the roof and move out right to a peg on the lip. Pull onto the wall move thinly right to the corner. Follow this to the top. Be warned that the tree in the corner has grown since the climb was opened, and a fall from the crux could result in a nasty encounter with some solid branches.

Start on the Zig-Zag ledge. Takes the bolted line to the left of Telegraph Road. Technical moves lead to a rail about two metres from the top. Finish as for Telegraph Road.

Instead of moving left at the bolt on Child of Darkness, move right and finish directly onto the block above the Think Twice finish. There is a three metre runout at the top.

Start just left of Granny's, climb up to a pocket in the rail (the jugs on the right are apparently "out"). Continue up and slightly left until reaching the jugs on Hallucination (right of the first peg). Finish as for The Empty Void.

Boulder up the wall left of Granny’s to a pocket in the rail. Follow the thin verttical seam straight up the wall to where it joins Hallucination. Finish as for Hallucination Direct.

Start at the left hand edge of the Fall Out bouldering wall. Climb directly up to a small roof, do one move right and climb up to the ledge. Continue up the face just right of the No Hands crack to the rail. Traverse two metres right and move up to via a jug to the next rail. Climb diagonally left to exit.

A route just left of the prow between Lord of the Rings and Out of the Blue. Wander up the wall to a large step in the roof where there is a peg. Pull through the roof (bolt) then past two more pegs, following a flake line to a fourth peg. Climb up to a rail and finish straight up the grey face.

Climbs the wall to the right of Out of the Blue. Pumping and tricky. Start just to the right of Out of the Blue and climb up the wall to below the roof. Pull through the roof at a bolt. Climb the wall past a peg and a bolt to the top.

Start just to the left of Angel Dust, below the first Peg. Climb the face above, past another peg, to a rail. Pull onto the small ledge on Angel Dust. Climb directly up (i.e. left of the Angel Dust headwall) passing the small triangular niche on the left. Finish straight up the face above. There is a gripping lead-out at the top.

This is one of the climbs that marked the start of a new era of hard climbing at Monteseel. Starts on the ledge two metres to the right of Couchant, below a thin crack in the middle of the face. Climb the thin crack to a rail. Traverse left for one metre to a resting place. Move up slightly right and then directly up the wall to finish up the break at the lip. Gear on the headwall is sparse but good.

Start from the blocks on the left of the Fear of Flight ledge, below an imposing, clean wall. Climb the wall past a peg to the ledge. Break through the roofs and continue up to another peg on the left of the Shadows’ headwall. Move left on undercut holds to finish.

Climbs the narrow face to the right of Fear of Flight. Good climbing past two bolts, but a little contrived as you shouldn’t step off the wall at the second bolt.

This line takes the left-hand side of the wall to the right of 'Clockworks' and 'Doggone'. Start below the peg and climb straight up the face, exiting slightly to the right.

Retro-bolted in 2008.

Loose & Sharp

Closed project.

Some stiff moves leads to good climbing higher up.

The aim is not to use the Tunnel of Love wall. Named after one of The Cure's songs.

Extension to Blueberry Delight

This line takes the discontinuous seam to the right of 'Olympic Dream'. Start from a boulder. Climb up and slightly left to clip a peg. Follow the crack, passing another peg and continue straight up to the top.

Clip the first two bolts of Younge Slutz, then break off right through the roof. Really awesome route with some unique moves. Two hands-off rests and safe bolting make this an excellent route for those new to the grade.

Left of The Microwave. Overhanging. Joins The microwave / Tardigradient? at the fourth / fifth? bolt. Not yet bolted.

Right of The Microwave. Overhanging. Joins The microwave / Torticollis? at the fourth / fifth? bolt. Not yet bolted.

Route name, grade and FA details from Hallam Payne's draft guide.