Routes in Table Mountain for selected grade

One of the harder routes on the Ledge. Sustained and a touch exciting.

Start: Start on the staircase ledge about 5m to the right of the arête between 'Jeopardy' and 'Jacob's Ladder'

1. [31] 40m Scramble up the large layback seam for about 10 meters to a ledge. Climb up the centre of the overhanging face through a series of small roofs to the 'Roulette' rail. Plenty of smallish cams are useful to protect this bottom section. Resisting the temptation to sit on the 'Roulette' ledge, rail right for 1m, pull through the roof and climb directly up the face just right of the main arete to join the original line at the 'Captain Hook' rail.

2. Figure out a cunning way to get down and to retrieve your gear or join the final pitch of Roulette.

Rail right for 1m, pull through the roof and climb directly up the face just right of the main arete to join the original line at the hook rail.

Start as for 'Roulette Arête'.

Start as for 'The Squid and the Whale-Original'

Left of 'Roulette'

One of the harder routes on the Ledge. Sustained and a touch exciting.

Start: Start on the staircase ledge about 5m to the right of the arête between 'Jeopardy' and 'Jacob's Ladder'

1. [31] 40m Scramble up the large layback seam for about 10 meters to a ledge. Climb up the centre of the overhanging face through a series of small roofs to the 'Roulette' rail. Plenty of smallish cams are useful to protect this bottom section. Resisting the temptation to sit on the 'Roulette' ledge, rail right 2m and gain the next rail using the vertical crack. From this position, pull straight through the next little roof via difficult moves to establish in some underclings. Climb past a peg and move diagonally left past the crux of 'Jeopardy' to 2 more pegs and the 'Captain Hook' rail (the end of 'Jeopardy'). Lace the rail with cams and climb the blunt arête. Pull straight through the next roof and exit out left onto jugs on the headwall.

2. Figure out a cunning way to get down and to retrieve your gear or join the final pitch of Roulette.

1. [16] 35m

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2. [32] 15m

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Roof to the right of Cukoo's nest.

Start low and climb the arete

3rd Ascent by Landry Lushima

Climb the thin crack

Climb as for Leftfield, this time using the holds up right. The arête is off.

Sit start in the crack, continue to climb the roof crack following it out of the cave. Once out in the open climb the vertical crack to top out.

Video Amazing Grace, 2nd ascent

Stand start on a reinforced hold and move up to the lip.

Climb the face right of Excalibur.

Climb as for Unnamed 1 but head up right to a crimp.

Beta Video

The new sit to the original Himura line. Start low on two opposing good sidepulls. Move right to sharp sloper, big move up to slopey sidepull/pinch, LH to small 2 finger pocket and finish left as Himura.

Video

Landry Lushima

Start as for U19 Girls Basketball and move left to join Swim.

Stand start with BH on edge in the middle of the face, up to the hollow above, RH to pinch, TO straight up.

Start low in the hole then traverse over to Dionysus and do it the hard way

Eliminate. Start as for Corporal Punishment, then do a big move out right to a crimp and continue moving right using a long crimp to top out next to the tree. The good holds of Memories are off. Video here.

Sit start to freak of the week

Jump-start to two black holds and climb the adrenaline inducing arête. did the first repeat a year later and thinking it was a first ascent named it Zero Gravity.

Ascent by Matthew Bush

Sit-start on an incut rail and move up on nothing holds.

Bum start and do two or three hard moves on crimps to reach a good left side pull then topout.

Bum start in underclings, move up to a good edge on the right and top-out.

Beta Video

Landry Lushima

Sit-start just right of Lonestar Arête, move RH to Beach Babes' vertical slot and top-out direct.

Sit start, Right hand on a crimp, left up to crimpy gaston, right to the slopey crimp, left to crimpy gaston. Top out on the flat hold ignoring the arete.

Sheldon Smith

Sit-start on an edge on black rock.

Sitstart using jugs next to the tree. Traverse right, staying low under the first roof, through the open book and crux corner. Continue right, staying low around the next two corners (including the final roof) to finish up above the slab.

Beta Video

Landry Lushima

Start as for After School Adventure and traverse right to finish up Swim.

Eliminate problem. See video below.

By Sheldon Smith

Climb Another Winner (Variation 1) to the rail, then downclimb Snail Trail to join Overconfidence

Low SS with LH on small layaway and RH on good layaway, climb to TO.

Landry Lushima

Beta Video

Start on same crimps as for The Handbag but climb straight up to TO.

Beta Video

Video

Sit-start with LH on a good pocket, RH to a layaway pocket above and climb up.

Climb the seam up the very high wall.

Awesome climb, instead of using slopey jug on Dionysus use crimpy undercling - Sheldon

Stand Start high left hand, low right hand and climb up the blunt arete.

Landry Lushima

Start with 'Alpenrösli' behind you

Standing start, climb the white-patched face.

Landry Lushima

Sit start using diagonal break for hands. Move straight up to another diagonal edge and TO.

The Holy Grail start, into Auto Eject.

Bold and exposed top out

Sitstart on the split crescent shaped boulder near the graffiti and do a tricky stand to the horizontal ledge. Traverse right all the way around the boulder, staying low and never using the top holds. Stay low on the slopey overhung finale using devious heel-hookery until the crux (last moves to pass the corner and exit on dark grey rock).