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V: Pinch of Herbs Boulder Guide

  • Grade context: FR
  • Ascents: 11

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Nicola Clementel Jakob Schubert Michael Piccolruaz Camille Coudert Vadim Timonov Charles Hopkins Vasily Chernov phlip olivier

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Table of contents

1. V: Pinch of Herbs Boulder 8 routes in Boulder

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Seasonality

All Bouldering

Lat / Long: -32.163613, 19.036920

access issues

(Leaving this here as its inherited by child locations - please take the time to take pictures of the boulders you visit and post them under the relavent locations so that we can start populating more topos 🙂).

As of 2014, no climbing is allowed in Rocklands without a valid climbing permit. Land owners often conduct inspections in the climbing areas and anyone found without a permit will be asked to leave the climbing area. Permits can be obtained online - www.quicket.co.za - or purchased at CapeNature's Kliphuis campsite office; De Pakhuys campsite office; or Traveller's Rest farmstall and restaurant.

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ethic

  1. Bury your faeces and carry out your toilet paper. If the ground is too hard to bury your faeces, please carry it out with you and dispose of it in the campsite bins. Poop bags are available for free at De Pakhys. (A special note about this: Tea Garden has been closed primarily due to this problem. Animals such as baboons may eat human faeces and could contract diseases such as Tuberculosis and hepatitis, which could prove detrimental to the population)

  2. Do not litter – carry everything you bring in with you back out with you and dispose of your litter in the bins at the campsite.

  3. Stick to the allocated paths marked by cairns and as illustrated in the guidebook. Diverting from these paths causes far more erosion than is necessary and may cause the extinction of certain sensitive plants in the area.

  4. No graffiti on rock surfaces. (Black Shadow boulder has been closed to climbing due to graffiti)

  5. No pof is allowed in Rocklands. The resin damages the rock surfaces and this damage is irreversible.

The complete disrespect of boulderers for the land on which they climb is a very serious and has become a very real threat to bouldering in Rocklands.

Rocklands bouldering is in peril. Rocklands does not belong to the climbers.

Our access is not a right, it’s a privilege and our treatment of the land is the difference between us being allowed to climb in Rocklands and us being banned from climbing in Rocklands altogether.

Irresponsible boulderers have caused this problem and boulderers are the only ones who can fix it.

Please respect the land you climb on in South Africa and adhere to the above mentioned rules. Your privilege to climb in Rocklands depends on it.

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RouteGradeStyleSelected ascents
1 Buns of Steel

Start to the right of the arete with jug and climb up diagonally right.

{FB} 6C Boulder
2 Rockdassie

Sit-start to the right of the arete and climb up

FA: Dennis Teÿsse, 2000

{FB} 6C+ Boulder
3 Gerick

Start from the ledge and climb the slab.

{FB} 6C Boulder
4 Un Pincon d'Herbes Arête / Pinch of Herbs Arete

Sit start and climb the arete.

{FB} 7A+ Boulder
5 Un Pincon d'Herbes / A Pinch of Herbs

From left hand on small rail, jump-start up to pinch and climb up using slots.

FA: Fred Nicole, 1996

{FB} 7C Boulder
6 De la Pince à la Pipe

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

FA: Benouit Devesouz, 1996

{FB} 8A+ Boulder
7 Herbie

#sd. Sit-start below the arete, move up to arete then right to the pinch of Un Pincon d'Herbes and climb up.

Video

FA: Paul Robinson, 2010

{FB} 7C - 8A Boulder
8 Une Bonne Pipe / A good pipe

Sit-start to the left of the bush and climb up the prow / arete.

{FB} 6C Boulder

2. Index by grade

Grade Stars Name Style Pop
6C Buns of Steel Boulder
Gerick Boulder
Une Bonne Pipe Boulder
6C+ Rockdassie Boulder
7A+ Un Pincon d'Herbes Arête Boulder
7C Un Pincon d'Herbes Boulder
7C - 8A Herbie Boulder
8A+ De la Pince à la Pipe Boulder
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