Routes in Topside for selected grade

Sit start on the right. climb diagonally left on huecos, crimps, slopers, underclings, pockets and jugs. Completely brilliant - tall and stiff for the grade.

📹 Julia Chen

On the boulder to the right of Planet Telex Boulder. Sit starts with an undercling/sidepull for your left hand and a crimp for your right, then move up to the heuco and straight up to top out. See this cutloose post.

Sit start on the layaway climb on good holds and then a couple of painful crimps into the crack on the L. Move up to the jug.

Same as Shrek, but continue to top out.

Cool sloper problem on the opposite side to the captain graffiti boulder - Adam Ludford

Sit start as for Ryan Was Here then climb left as for that problem, at the good hold on the arete, continue left and up across the face to top out as for Doubt and Expectation.

Right hand arete pinch and dyno to jug then TO

Start as for through the core but finish up the wasp.

Sit start in the big right facing rail and do 1 move to gain the starting holds of The Beast, then do that problem.

Sit start as for Through the Core, do one move to gain the starting holds for The Beast and a Half, then do that problem.

SS on jugs below Pudgy Bitch traverse left on crimps to join

Start at the exit of Through the Core, climb through the cave and TO as for the Beast

Climb The Waspinator but continue and TO as for Bee's Niques

Crouch start with right hand on sloper sidepull and left hand on sloper scoop, climb straight up through roof via hueco, exit left up and over the lip on slopers. Block under the roof is out because it is not attached to the boulder

Landry Lushima

Start as for Creature. once you're in the big underclings, move out right and top out as for Amoeba

Starts as the stand start for Cthulhu and ends to the right of Mysterion Rising

FA by Nicholas Allan

Behind the pacman roof

Cutloose Climbing

Sit start at the back of the roof (feet on the rucksack-sized block) climb along the discontinuous flake/seam to the lip, then to top out. Could be harder for tall climbers! Poor bastards.

📽️ Ascent by Rachelle de Charmoy at 5:01

The direct start to Warp Speed, wall on the right is out.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan

right of Full Throttle

After doing Niks is Nodig I linked from the start of Buoyancy into the topout of Niks to make Sitrus is Nodig 7C ... give it a go and let me know what you think. Should be at least 7C seeing as it is definitely harder than Enhanced Coziness. - Chev

Rowan Toselli 2015

Thomas Luger

Catarina Monteiro

Landry Lushima

Sit start on the sloper and climb up then left and end with a jump.

Jarryd New

"Not sure if this is meant to be an eliminate but felt more like 7A or it’s just a reach thing." - Jarryd New

The wall left on the heart feels no bass block

Very cool new morpho line on a suspended boulder. Some fun toe hook trickery. Not sure on the grade, needs another ascent.

Traverse left along the slopers and edges until you can throw to top out

Sit start right of Backhand Winner, climb directly up to top out.

Best 7b. 5x toe hooks and 2x heels FTW! - Rowan Toselli

Left on Tightest Kite String

In the pacman roof.

Low start off underclings to "my hip don't hop"

Ascent by Jarryd New

Climb the amazing open book corner via various contortions

Start at The Midnight Barber & climb the prow

Landry Lushima

Ascent by Grant Bender

Cutloose Climbing

Sit start in the cave, climb the roof to the left to top out

Hidden gem deep inside the cave next to Forces of Darkness. Start on a good jug at the back of the cave and climb the hanging prow/bulge all the way out on slopers and pockets. Props to Matty and Tom for finding it.

Same start as Jeremy's jump, but dyno to top of boulder.

Sit start on the low shelf, move up into the undercling above and then CD to TO.

Sit start with incut layback for the LH and good slopey edge for RH, CD up on slopers.

Just needed some flow. Felt more like a 7c or possibly harder, very tricky to grade - Rowan Toselli

Cutloose Climbing

Sit start and climb the arete

Better than snake - Robin Wilson

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Big roof on path near Turtle area - Michael Janata

Rad little roof climb with a powerful dynamic throw - Rowan Toselli

Amazing classic line. Glad to have ticked this one off - Rowan Toselli

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Don't use the slot for the end - Marijus

Second ascent of an awesome little addition by Majiek. This is an awesome little block with the best jug in the world! - Rowan Toselli

cool big move boulder! nice one griff! - Paul Robinson

Sit start right of Butt Guster. Big throw up to an edge, then traverse left into Butt Guster and climb that problem.

Is this the same route at the Project for this boulder?

Dom Riordan

Start under the cave

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Start with both hands on large flat hold. traverse left along thin seam on crimp to reach jug in overlap then top out.

Stand-start on a good pocket for the right hand, go up and left to a sidepull and climb straight up and out using the huge jug. Used to be a project in Guy Holwill's guide.

Start as for Da Capo, but head left into the Smiley crimp and climb directly up from there.

Start as for Mr Smiley, but finish as for The Don.

First 7b in Topside

Named after Sergei Bubka - basically your charge along, dig your pole in and vault to the lip. Sit start on block with both hands on slanting layaway and feet on overhanging wall. Reach up to small flat hold then traverse left, past a big sloper to a pocket, keeping feet above the break. Dyno to the good hold on the lip then top out.

Sit start below arete (left hand in shallow scoop & right hand under roof) do a weird dyno then top out up the prow.

Sit start in centre of face with both hands on crimp's. climb directly up to TO, left of the roof via a jug. This could be the same problem as Borotvahad?

Sit start below right arete with left-hand on low layaway and right hand on arete. Reach up right for sloper around arete then traverse thin seam left on crimp's to finish on jugs at end of the seam.

Start on the rail between Bring Out the Gimp and the Accountant's Project, and climb directly up and over the blunt prow. Happy slapping!

Start as for B3, then drop into the low underclings, move L, then climb B1. All holds on Punji are off route (except the starting undercling obviously).

Start with both hands in the rail, CD on crimps to TO. There are no tricks, ether you can pull up on the LH crimp or, more likely, you can't.

Sit-start in small cave, CDL on slopers to a sloper on the lip, then TO.

Sit-start 1m right of Roof 'n Slab and climb through the roof, do one move CDR on the lip, then CD up the slab.

Eliminate problem.

This is a contrived. but super cool, move. Because the original problem was to do this specific move, all the variations have been included. Start with both hands on the round sloper about 1m right of the arete, and your left foot on AA1's starting jug. Dyno to the rail/pocket above with your RH.

Put your right foot on the jug and your left foot on an edge near the arete, then go up with your left hand. Obviously don't put your foot around the arete.

Set up as for Jeremy’s Variation, go with RH.

Climb the wall.

Meh! Campus then topout - Dan Archambault

Start on the right, traverse left along the rail (without using the high pocket) to finish on the slab.

right exit to ??

left exit through the hole ?

Tricky first move. Something to try if you're too short for Malboro Man - Robbie Fraser

Fun new climb that needs a lot of balance. Three holds, one krunk ring-finger mono match and a whole lot of smearing. Its about 250m up and lightly to the left from Malboro Man - Rowan Toselli

Pronounced P'po shar. Start with left-hand on arete. Jump for big sloper on face with right hand then match hands and climb diagonally right on desperately slopey holds to a good edge, then top out. The jug pocket way on the right is obviously off route. If you can reach the finishing edge with your foot still hooking the arete, then it's probably only 6cish - but this is only relevant to very tall customers.

Start on obvious jug slot in the middle of the cave and climb out left on undercling pockets and crimps. Very morpho.

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3 hard moves in a roof

Start on the jugs at the start of the roof, throw for the obvious hold in the middle of the roof, and then make it to the lip, and top out.

Pretty scary, since you are pulling moves over a sizeable fall. Shorter climbers might find it a little more challenging.

Sit start on two crimps, climb out of the cave to your left and top out on some tricky vert moves.

"In the true spirit of Cape Town and inspired by Dai Koyamada, I added a super low, probably contrived, but definitely harder start to Low Down and Dirty."

Starts as for Low Down and Dirty, but climbs out the cave to the right instead.

Start on the footholds of Otter's Pocket, go right.

Sit starts on the layback jug and climbs into the stand.