Affichant les 33 ascensions total.
Cotation | Voie | Style d'escalade | Qualité | Grimpeur | |||
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Upper tier | |||||||
17 |
★★ Elephant's Revenge
![]() | 15m | |||||
A fine third course to the lichenfest, and actually cleaner than the rest. Good route, well recommended
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Middle tier | |||||||
15 |
Irrelephant
![]() | 8m | |||||
Pitch two in the smorgasboard of lichenous delights.
Condition of handline and tree it is attached to leaves a lot to be desired. |
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
17 |
★ Pet Shop Shark Attack 1981
![]() | 30m, 3 | |||||
Considerably less vegetated than claimjumper...
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16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | |||||
Will clean up with traffic.... Has now been grubbed out and cleaned almost to where it looks a lot cleaner higher up.
Was going to be the first pitch in our three course menu of dirt, however after spending a good hour cleaning the first ten metres or so, and still contending with vegetation, we decided to change tactic. Down aided, and moseyed over to something slightly less grubby. |
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Upper tier | |||||||
17 |
★★ Elephant's Revenge
![]() | 15m | ★★ Excellent | ||||
Towed a #5 up here but it's only really useful to protect the wide start until you get a good high hex. A few jamming/offwidth skills will go a long way. Stays fairly clean, and there's a bolted anchor.
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Middle tier | |||||||
15 Difficile |
Irrelephant
![]() | 8m | Dans la moyenne | ||||
Continuing the dirty 'ol trad research project. Harder than it looks. Didn't hate it.
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Mar 2 Jan 2024 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
17 Difficile |
★ Pet Shop Shark Attack 1981
![]() | 30m, 3 | ★ Bon | ||||
Rather good. Headed right after first bolt, some sketch getting back on line. Nose bolts a bit tempting. Surprisingly clean for a mixed route.
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Sam 16 Avr 2022 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
15 |
The Nose
![]() | 30m, 9 | ★ Bon | ||||
Sam 3 Avr 2021 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | |||||
16 |
Trunk Line
![]() | 35m | |||||
16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | ★ Bon | ||||
Vegetated down low, lichenous higher, needs a better clean. If cleaner I think it would be quite good, has a nice physicality to it with some committing moves. Mind the chossy bits at top, but there is gear, and don't miss the anchor out left (the traverse to that is protectable by a #3).
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16 |
Trunk Line
![]() | 35m | ★ Bon | ||||
Much better after the clean at the bottom, but a lot of dirt will continue to rain down on it I think. Mind the somewhat chossy stuff up top, though there is good gear to be had. Squeeze between the kōwhai and the rock for a better belay experience, then extend yourself down from the tree anchor. You can rap off the shackles on the hand line and get down to the bottom of Taniwha Crackdown on a 60m rope, assuming you want to trust the hand line.
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16 |
Trunk Line
![]() | 35m | Dans la moyenne | ||||
The initial crack was reasonably clean. Wasn’t worried about the massive apparently detached flake you bridge up after that but did not like the dirty lose gully to the right above it. Chose to walk off the back rather than trust the shackles on the weathered handrail rope for an abseil.
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16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | Dans la moyenne | ||||
Surprised to see here that I seconded this 2 years ago. I have no memory of that. Climb was very dirty vegetated and lichen covered. Lots of holds if you can uncover them, Also some loose rock. Some good moves. Could be good if it was cleaned up.
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Lun 25 Jan 2021 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
23 |
★★ Flight Of The Pachyderm
![]() | 40m, 9 | ★★ Excellent | ||||
bit dirty and mossy but over all a verry fun route run out where its easy and well protected when it gets hard fell 3 times on the crux before finding the right holds.
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Lun 28 Déc 2020 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
16 |
Trunk Line
![]() | 35m | Pourrie | ||||
Terrifying, stay the hell off. Filthy and difficult down low, objectively dangerous up top due to the huge detached death-flake. Much gardening and excavation for gear up the crack, veering left quite often just to climb on lichen rather than vegetation, then tried to stay off the horrifying huge flake as much as possible by bridging and climbing/protecting the right wall, with just one big hex in the flake gap. Topped out around the tree then anchored on the same tree as the hand line (not the shackles), which is quite old but needed for the sketchy walk-off. I will never climb this again, and recommend nobody else does either.
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Dim 29 Déc 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
17 |
★ Taniwha Crackdown
![]() | 20m | ★ Bon | ||||
A bit of an evening adventure, starting as far right as possible. Traverse gear is reasonably sparse but you're not far off the ground.
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Sam 27 Avr 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
15 |
The Nose
![]() | 30m, 9 | Dans la moyenne | ||||
15 |
The Nose
![]() | 30m, 9 | |||||
Mar 23 Avr 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
23 |
★★ Flight Of The Pachyderm
![]() | 40m, 9 | |||||
way too hard for me
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15 |
The Nose
![]() | 30m, 9 | |||||
16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | |||||
23 |
★★ Flight Of The Pachyderm
![]() | 40m, 9 | ★ Bon | ||||
Had a go on Donovan's draws. Nice 17-ish slabbing until the first overhang, then shut down trying to get past that. Well protected to work the overhang. Beyond me right now.
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15 |
The Nose
![]() | 30m, 9 | Dans la moyenne | ||||
Easy sport clip-up, not my thing.
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16 |
Claim Jumper
![]() | 28m | ★ Bon | ||||
It looks a bit shit but there is some decent climbing here, and it's a decent length. The bottom crack is a bit seepy after rain which makes for an underwhelming start, but things improve from there. Not the cleanest thing around but workable. Loose flake out right around halfway.
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Dim 27 Jan 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Upper tier | |||||||
17 |
★★ Elephant's Revenge
![]() | 15m | ★★ Excellent | ||||
Really enjoyed this, worth going up there for. The offwidth start is the crux, funky moves and can be tamed a bit by a high fist jam to pull up at the top. Plenty of gear is available up the top section offwidth layback and above. It's all pretty clean too. Big gear - take at least doubles of #4 cams, at least one #5.
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Dim 27 Jan 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Middle tier | |||||||
10 |
Hooptedoodle Slab
![]() | 7m | Pas la peine | ||||
An exploratory mission. You wouldn't think a grade 10 slab could be scary, but it's covered in lichen and loose bits of rock and there is pretty much no worthwhile gear. Don't think Rob was very happy on lead. Maybe an option if it was clean, but you're probably a lot better off climbing Irrelephant (the flaring 15) to gain the upper tier.
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Dim 27 Jan 2019 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
17 16 |
★ Nogasang
![]() | 30m, 6 | ★ Bon | ||||
It's more like 17, and there is a fair bit of lichen regrowth, but it's a cool slabby lead with some nervy moments.
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17 |
★ Taniwha Crackdown
![]() | 20m | ★★ Excellent | ||||
Dirty but still enjoyable.
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Sam 9 Avr 2016 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
19 |
★ Elephant Hunting
![]() | 25m | ★ Bon | ||||
Nice and delicate in places.
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Dim 31 Jan 2016 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Lower tier | |||||||
17 |
★ Taniwha Crackdown
![]() | 20m | ★ Bon | ||||
Another interesting climb.
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17 |
★ Taniwha Crackdown
![]() | 20m | ★ Bon | ||||
Fun and not as straightfoward as thought. One small cam and lots of nuts, gear needed plenty of extension to manage rope drag, belayed at Elephant Hunting chains (shade) but could have continued. Angela led the short 13 to the top then we soloed (me in liner socks only).
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Dim 25 Mars 2012 - Kawakawa Bay | |||||||
Elephant Buttress Upper tier | |||||||
22 |
★★ Cicada Death March
![]() | 22m | ★★ Excellent |
Affichant les 33 ascensions total.