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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Henry Bolte Wall | |||||
23 | Got It!
Some bouldery moves. There's a good plunge if you miss the final lunge. Start: Start just right of "Henry Bolte" FA: Kim Carrigan, Geoff Weigand & Brian Wright, 1981 | 27m, 2 | |||
23 | ★ Gurtle Tier
Line of bolts to a lower-off right of "Barbed". Feel like it climbs a bit contrived by where the bolt placements are, but it's a fun little warm up for the main events up the hill. A cam is good for the top if you scare easily FA: Two Germans., 1996 | 12m, 3 | |||
23 | White on Black
Up for 2 metres then traverse right to pockets and up brushed wall to ledge. Rap as for "Gurtle Tier". Start: Start 3 metres right of "Barbed" at a short, steep flake. FA: Kim Carrigan, Mike Broadbent & Louise Shepherd, 1982 | 12m | |||
23 | ★ School for Scandal
Maybe 20m below Barbed and 10m up from the Clown a doglegged thin crack doesn't reach the ground. Up seam in grey slab until desperately thin moves gain crack. Rap anchor. Gear is rather sketchy. | 25m | |||
Mysteries Wall | |||||
23 | ★ Mysteries
The diagonal crack leading left into 'Rosshalde' is slick and fiddly to protect but good fun higher up.
FA: Lincoln, Chris Shepherd (pitch 1). Chris Shepherd & Mark Moorhead (pitch 2) 1981., 1980 | 45m, 2 | |||
23 | ★ Modern History
Nice rock and good climbing but it's not worth doing as the other routes are far more logical lines. Start up 'Mysteries' diagonal, when you reach 'Blue Eyed and Blond' follow it up and right, then keep traversing right. Up higher go right and left a few more times to ensure you've got the most out of the wall, then traverse with your hands on the top and downclimb Rosshalde. FA: Kim Carrigan & Louise Shepherd, 1981 | 35m | |||
Echo Crag | |||||
23 | ★ The Swarm
Orange arête right of Navity past 2 fixed hangers then continue direct up overhung arête on trad to finish at anchors on NDS. Vital #5 wire after 2nd bolt. FA: Neil Monteith, 2011 | 18m, 2 | |||
Kachoong Area | |||||
23 | ★★★ One Day Hero | 15m | |||
23 R | ★★ Sounds Like
A scary direct start to Golden Echo. Looks worthless but in fact has a fascinating crux section. FA: Kim Carrigan, Nick Plishko & Robin Miller, 1982 | 35m | |||
23 R | ★ Achoo
Poorly protected start. Douglas doesn't mind at all if someone puts 2 bolts in the start. Start: Start about 2m R of 'Kachoong'. FA: Douglas Hockly & Gareth Llewellin, 2002 | 15m | |||
23 | ★★ In Phase
Very good and very strenuous. FA: Kim Carrigan, 1979 | 20m | |||
High Dive Gully | |||||
23 | Cellular Banana
Won't make many "best of" lists but the climbing is surprisingly good. Aside from the off chance of toppling 40m down the gully, it's more like a highball boulder problem. Start up Cellular Destruction, but instead of traversing right, continue up the steep overhanging crack to top out 3m left of the finish of Cellular Destruction. FA: Huw Lewis, 1991 | 6m | |||
23 | ★ Cellular Destruction
From the big chalked plate at the top of the gully, move up to disappointing holds from where key gear needs to be placed, then right and up to hard (or is it ?) top-out. Only 22 if top roped or gear is in place already FA: Malcolm Matheson & Nic Taylor, 1982 | 8m | |||
23 | ★★★ High Dive
Climbs the inverted staircase just left of "A Taste of Honey" and is a superb companion route to it. Dave Jones used to solo this regularly as a warm up for the harder routes in this gully Starts at a heavily chalked ledge low in the gully. Traverse R about 4 metres to a fixed wire before heading up on flat holds to the large break of Belly Flop. Traverse R to just before the arete, then up to the next break just below the first bolt of "You're Terminated" (virtually impossible to clip on this route). Now traverse with difficulty R around the arete to easier ground. Finish up the lovely grade 10 headwall or backjump if you don't suffer from summit fever. For gear, virtually every cam ever made could be placed at some point in this route, but a #0.3BD protects the crux on the arete nicely. FA: Kim Carrigan, 1982 | 25m | |||
23 | ★ Dark Matter
Start just left of "A Taste of Honey Direct Start" at the bottom of the gully. Up overhanging crack (this was Kim Carrigan's "Cavities" from 1984) through bulge and off-width to a large grey and white ledge. Continue more easily up corner to High Dive's initial traverse (thread runner) and step off left to finish. Given that the grade for the first half was 24, this may be quite solid at 23. | 20m | |||
Evelyn and Lou Area | |||||
23 | ★ Order Your Christmas Poultry Now
It'll be too late once you're at grips with this. FA: Jon Muir & Geoff Little, 1988 | 12m |
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