★★ Samurai Pizza Catz 18

Grade context: AU
Length: 15m
Ascents: 1116

description

Probably the most popular route at Nowra at the grade. Great friction work.

Route history

1990	First ascent: Ant Prehn, Giles Bradbury & Trudy Bretherton

Location

Lat/Lon: -34.86912, 150.57429

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Grade citation

18	Assigned grade
19 [18 - 19] +	grAId

Mostly developed as a sport climbing and bouldering area. Some trad climbing exists, mainly the pure cracks. If developing new areas keep an eye and and ear out for Aboriginal cultural heritage, including cave art.

inherited from Nowra

Seasonality

Quality

Mega Classic
Classic
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Good
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Don't Bother
Crap

Overall quality 63 from 520 ratings.

Difficulty - 18

Soft Touch
Easy
Average
Hard
Sandbag

Based on 14 ratings.

Suggested Grade

18
19
20
21

Based on 14 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight	251	251
Flash	66	66
Red point	104	104
Top rope	1	1
Pink point	16	16
Tick	277	277
Attempt	80	80

Comment keywords

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Nowra Climbing Guide Book

Author(s): Simon Carter, Carlie LeBreton, Rob LeBreton, Neil Monteith, Rod Young

Date: 2016

ISBN: 9780994278449

The new Nowra guide is the most comprehensive guide to one of Australias largest sport climbing destinations. Coincidently it also includes New Nowra or Braidwood Park as it is now known which contains 650 routes in itself. With over 1500 routes all up it will be impossible to run out of projects to get yourself spanked on ever again.

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Jakob Kapelj on ★★ Samurai Pizza Catz 18 - 130125 - Samurai Pizza Cats.JPG

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