Some of the absolute best rock on Maroon is found here. A band of Trachyte mixed in with the Ryholite.
Upwards of 80m high routes here, hard-man stuff with the easiest route being a grade 20 (excluding the first pitch of The Nympho). One sports route, a few trad routes - the remainder are mixed.
Routes are arranged L to R.
Access from the carpark at Cotswold Rd. to the National Park is across gazetted private land - from the sluice gate:
East Face - Sluice gate
walk up roughly 400m to the National Parks sign:
East Face - Maroon National Park boundary
This is the start of the National Park. Visitors are urged to stay on the path or use established tracks, rather than blazing a new trail.
The fastest, most direct approach is to follow the hiker's track up past the tree line a couple of hundred metres till you see the National Park sign:
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Look back about 20-30m you should see a faint track veering off Right:
Nympho Buttress - N.E. Crags access track
Take this down to & across the gully & up the steep slope as far as Heartcramp Buttress, then head Left down around the base of this cliff line & keep going past it till it heads up to Nympho cave.
Sport bolting is a big no-no here. If you place a bolt here, you'd better have a damn good reason, even then, expect it to be chopped.
Graphique de l'historique des voies
First eyed off by Rick back in 1969. He pegged & drilled his way up "The Nympho"; the drill holes were used for aid rods - as a kind of aid ladder to get through the blank wall section. Over the years, he added several aid routes: Deep Purple, Climax, Erotica, which are pretty much lost to the vagaries of time. He directed the late Tobin Sorensen (visiting from America) & Jon Allen (visiting from England) to this route in 1979. Tobin took a groundfall from the hard blank corner below the roof, & Rick put in some gear above & Right in the cave, enabling Tobin to free the route at grade 24. Tobin used a half rope system - he initially clipped in to the gear out far Right, then unclipped, once he'd made the traverse back Left to more gear above the blank section, climbing the remaining metres of p2 on the one rope. 6 years later, our own Kim Carrigan freed the direct blank route at grade 25 - bold climbing with no protection above a potential ground-fall. Robert Staszewski added a couple of routes in the early 80s. The remaining routes are unknown to myself at this point in time (2019): Ascentists, route names & grades are second-hand information.
Many thanks to Dave Moss for allowing the use of his photos of Tobin's ascent of The Nympho in 1979.
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