Routes in Winterhoek for selected grade

Takes a line right of OOF. Start in the same place, i.e. the ramp. Scramble up to the short corner.

1. Climb the corner, up the wall above. Go slightly left to a sloping ledge, then move right, climbing flakes to belay at a rail (peg).

2. Traverse right under the roof to the corner. Climb up and belay on a thin ledge.

3. Traverse left to a break. Pull through and continue up trending leftwards to a ledge next to some blocks.

4. Climb into a corner-system leading to a belay on the ramp below a right facing corner.

5. Climb the corner to rail under the roofs. Traverse left to the Ledge of Forgotten Dreams.

6. Zig-zags Into Infinity Base: From the highest block nail the corner to the rail. Go right and up the next corner. Intricate nailing leads left and up to belay 3m right of the scoop/hollow at the top of the OOF's A2 crack.

7. The Cloak of Black Mystery: Aid straight up on hooks to a pocket. Nail across the wall into a thin crack going diagonally right. Bolt Belay.

8. Afterimages of Pain and Desire: Hook the wall to a slanting seam going left under the roof. Aid left to the bolt-ladder leading to the Halls of Desolation. Straight up to the rail. Move left and through the next roof. Diagonally left on blades and up to the rail under the big roof. Traverse left to belay.

9. The Downbound Train: Go diagonally left to the corner. Drop down and hook left into a very steep corner. Hook the pockets on the left-hand wall and into the crack - The Visions of Paradise. Climb the crack to belay in a corner under a roof.

10. Freeclimb right for 7m, pull through the bulge, and up the corner to a sloping ledge. Climb diagonally right across the wall to a tiny sloping ledge below a blank corner crack: The Silver Hearts Bivvi.

11. Traverse left and up to a small block. Up to a ramp. Climb leftwards up the ramp to a crack through the bulge. Belay in the corner above.

12. Go diagonally left into a rightward arching flake/corner system. At the top traverse left to a triangular ledge - Darkness on the Edge of Town.

13. Layback flakes and corners to reach the ramps and so the long ledge. Traverse left and finish up the last 100m of LF route, as per OOF - The Circle of Silence.

Follow the corner and though the roof to a hand crack. At the next ledge step right and take vague corner to the next wider crack system. Tat point at the top.

Start up steep corner with a difficult move to gain easier ground. Tat point at tree.

Pitch 1: 20m (17) Head up a thin crack to then transfer onto the slab on your left. Slab up easy climbing to reach a tree. Pitch 2: 20m (21) Continue climbing up and then trend left to reach an open book corner with a thin crack to protect. Surmount the corner to reach a nice ledge above. Pitch 3: 25m (18) From the ledge continue up a face that appears to be suspect at first. Trend through several big holds to reach pleasant climbing that takes you to the summit. Rappel back down the route using trees that are in line with the summit. No rap cord.

Start about 3m right of Crucifix . About 20m downstream of the entrance to The Slot. Hand crack through roof (hard exit), then easy up to massive tree with tat

Thin crack just right of Playtex. Take small gear.

Climb up the ramp to the first slightly overhanging step. The climb up the right crack using fist and hand jams (crux) step left to the next crack. Climb it and traverse left along the edge of the slot up until you arrive under the tree. (two rap bolts)