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Climb the right line.

Sit-start with undercling & slopey rail, climb in front of the tree

Climb up the face

Climb the easy face.

Crouch start, up the crack

Move left up the break to a juggy topout

A fun journey on good holds

A good taste of this block's style

From the jugs low and left, traverse rightwards on juggy holds

Start on the jug and move up the flake

From the start jug of Zipline, move diagonally up left via crimps

Start with bulby jug left hand and crimp right hand and move up the arete trending rightwards to topout

Start with high flat hold and climb out right.

Climb up slab/wall.

The younger farm dog

Climb buckets up the short white face

Start: As for Chain Rattling Baboon Parlour

1. Climb to the ledge then step left to climb the crack line to the right of the CRBP corner. Continue through the overhang and crack above the corner to a small ledge then continue through two overhangs to a ledge on the left (second half shared with CRBP).

2. Climb through the overhang via a very small left-facing corner above the right end of the ledge, then go straight up to another ledge. From the right hand side of the ledge go straight up to and through a short wide crack that splits two big blocks. Move 4m to the right and pull through the right end of the overhang, then up the face above passing a short, shallow corner to a ledge.

3. Climb diagonally leftwards to an obvious wedge shaped block beneath the roofs. Follow the break moving slightly left to gain the lip. Climb straight to the top.

Clips the first 3 bolts of 'Bananarama', then moves left.

Starts right of 'All along the Watchtower' and joins 'All along the Watchtower' at the second last bolt to finish on All along the Watchtower lower offs.

The Middle third of route and exit (last two bolts) is shared with Beastmaster, a trad line opened in the '80s by Jono Fischer and Jono Orrock.

This is the arete that is visible on the skyline as you approach from Spout Cave, and is a few meters right of The Tabhomi Gun Show. Start directly below the sharp edge halfway up. Climb dead straight up the arête with much satisfaction.

Starts to the left of Thimble up an easy break, then follows the centre of the wall to the right of Edge of Existence.

1. 10m (15) Pull up into the easy break that is above a lower overhang with a large boulder inside it. At the ledge step meters left to below the wall between the arête and the easy ground on Thimble.

2. 40m (21) Follow a series of vertical crack up the wall to an overlap. Step right and pull up into a thin crack. At the finger-rail head left and then straight up the wall

On the right of the Rooibosch wall is a huge roof at about 1/3 height. The route skirts this roof on the left then heads straight up and through another roof at about 2/3 height.

1. 20 m (20) About 30m right of the tunnel scramble gulley is a short, slightly left-facing, orange wall with three vertical cracks. Climb these cracks to the huge ledge below the massive roof (the same ledge from which Rooibosch starts).

2. 50 m (18) Start about 3m left of the big crack where Tea Bag starts. Climb a thin crack in a short, orange face to a small roof. Pull through and move up until you can rail right past a chockstone in the big crack at foot level and around the corner. Pull up and continue up until you can rail right again across the face to a prominent notch on the skyline. Head up and left towards a layback corner and up to a large ledge.

3. 25 m (21) Above the ledge is a roof with a rail that heads out and right and into a shallow, rightward tending recess capped by a small roof. Follow the rail and pull up into the recess. Follow it to pass the roof on the right and continue up some cracks to the top.

Start: In the first big corner just to the right of the low overhang to the right of 'Maiden's Prayer'.

1. [21] 40m

   Pull into the undercut corner and then climb up into the flared recess above. Move out to the right using a horizontal crack, then move up to an excellent horizontal crack. Climbing to the left lands one in the upper part of the flared crack and climb to the roof to traverse left to a small ledge. Continue traversing until able to move up to a higher level and then further to the left onto the lip. Move up and around to belay on the left-hand side of a large, detached column.

2. [13] 46m

   This pitch can be split. Traverse to the left to a black undercut face and climb it on small incut holds, after which it is possible to move easily to the left under an overhang. Continue to the left, moving slightly down at one point, until just before an obvious watercourse is reached. Climb out and up to the right to a bottomless crack/chimney. Climb the crack on huge 'jugs' to a large ledge.

3. [14] 30m

   Walk right below the amphitheatre. Pass 'Maiden Voyage' break, continue past another break with a massive 2m thick block which is cammed in at around 6m off the ground. Start just before the ledge pinches out at a small cairn with restio's below a slab/ wall with breaks. Climb a recess moving up and right, continue in this fashion to the next ledge.

4. [17] 45m

   Shift slightly right to find the left tending dassie crawl, climb up to this then move left for a few meters till able to step up to below an overhang. Climb up to the overhang and reach for a good jug out left use this to turn the overhang. Continue up to top out.

After an aid move to get onto the route, four varied pitches take you to the top. Starts at the crack through the big roof between Danger Shrew and Odyssey. Bring your bow tie and flowers.

Pitch 1. 30m (20 A1) Aid through the roof to reach a large jug on the face. Carefully climb up into the wide recess and more gear. Head straight up to the roof, using the crack to the right if needed. Traverse left passing the wide vertical crack on the right side of a large block. Continue traversing left to the base of a shallow corner. Pitch 2. 50m (17) Straight up the shallow corner, then up to another crack that leads to a short face below the roof. Traverse ~2m right on thin moves and then up to the roof and rail out right until the roof ends. Continue straight up on easier ground to the huge ledge. Walk ~20m right. Pitch 3. 20m (21) In the middle of the face is a narrow overhang several meters up. Start below and right of the right-hand end of the stepped overhang at a thin layback. At the ledge, step right and then follow a series of small laybacks up the face to a protruding block. Traverse right below the block and up to the grassy ledge. Stance in some boulders below an obvious thin left-facing prong a few metres above. Pitch 4. 30 m (20) Navigate the wide gap up to the long prong. Gingerly step onto this prong to gain good holds up and left over the bulge. Continue straight up to the top.

Start: up the undercut crack system to the right of 'Tafelberg Frontal'.

1. [20] 15m

   Climb the overhanging crack at the bottom of the central break.

2. [18] 25m

   Continue up the crack to a large stance in a cave.

3. [21] 30m

   Move out left from the cave and into a crack. Climb thru the overlap to a small stance.

4. [11] 15m

   Climb to the large ledge.

5. [18] 40m

   Climb up and to the right, then to the left on black rock. Move up a little, then back to the right to a line of weakness directly below the flake. Climb the line of weakness, then move a little to the left and chimney out behind the flake to the top.

Tends up and right from Vuvuzela. The second pitch is easier than it is hard as it looks from the stance.

1. 45 m (19) Shares the first 15m of Vuvuzela. Climb straight up to the left-facing corner to a ledge. Traverse a few meters right and pull through an overlap. Head more or less straight up the face until the roof. Traverse right for about 10m.

2. 30 m (21) Pull onto the short undercut face and through the narrowest part of two roofs. Pull up to the next rail under an overlap, pull up and right across the face for a few meters to horizontal break with a roof to the right. Continue straight up the face to belay on a ledge below a left arching crack

3. 40 m (19) Climb the crack, move slightly right and then straight up the face to a horizontal break. Follow a left tending diagonal for 1m to pass the roof on its left then step right and continue up the face to a narrow ledge. Traverse right to a left tending crack (shared with Boomerang Direct and Assegai).

4. 10 m (18) Follow the crack this to where it terminates, and step right onto a brown face and follow good crimps to the top.

Another line starting above the massive roof just right of Tafelberg Frontal. Do the first two pitches of the Frontal and walk right along the ledge to about 10m left of where Boomerang goes up. Start at the right-hand end of some roofs above you, about 1m right of an obvious recessed corner, and below a white nose.

1. 20 m (16) Head directly up to the white nose just right of the corner. Reach up to an awesome jug on the tip of the nose and climb up to a big ledge.

2. 35 m (19) Pull up onto the face above the stance and up a small, left-facing corner system towards the right-hand side of a detached roof that is almost an arch. Rail 2m right to skirt the roof and up to a ledge.

3. 25 m (20) The Improbable Pitch. Start off a block a few metres left of where you just came up. Climb up to the second rail then traverse left past an obvious vertical crack. At some loose blocks head up and slightly left to a small stance.

4. 20 m (21) Head straight up past some delicate moves to a huge ledge. Could be combined with the previous pitch.

5. 20 m (21) Walk about 8m left to some blocks at the base of a blunt, white nose with layback cracks on either side. Climb up the easier right-hand side until able to reach across to the left side. Climb up to a small overlap. Pull through and head up to the base of an impossible looking, smooth, round corner below the summit. Traverse 8m left past a short finger crack to a small stance below a recessed crack. P6. 10 m (17) Climb the crack and a delicate move to finish.

A good mix of corners, flakes, ramps and roofs.

Use the Frontal or Boomerang to gain the far right end of the ledge over the huge roof. Start as for Boombox

1. 20m (17) Start directly below some underclings that allow you to reach a higher rail. Pull up to a second, wide rail below a roof and traverse right and up. Continue right past the smooth, left-facing corner on Boombox and take the next easy right facing recess up to a ledge. Traverse a few meters right to a below a corner that is dark brown on the right-hand wall.

2. 15m (21) Blast up the corner and then diagonally up and left to reach a fantastic flake in brown rock. Romp up the flake to the roof, where you pull through the middle and then move slightly right until able to crank up to the ledge.

3. 20m (20) Step off the top of the sail-shaped rock onto the face. Step right and then straight up to the roof about 10m up. Move left and use good holds that rise diagonally to the left to pull over the roof. Head back right and follow an easy break to the large ledge. Walk right, under the Whistling Woozel corner to the shiny, left-facing ramp.

4. 35 m (21) Climb the ramp to a horizontal rail and step right. Tricky face moves up and right allow one to establish on the wall above. Ride the winds up, following the easiest line and near the top move right to a grey flake and then straight to the summit.

Start right of the arête at the beginning of a faint crack line. Climb this till able to move left on to arête, then to the top. Note: Sparse gear, opened solo.

Step off the boulder onto the face and climb directly to the Hackaroo layback, then straight up a crack to a small roof. Reach right to another crack, pull up and tend right up a vague corner. Straight to top.

Right of the abseil is a very undercut section of the crag. This short line climbs just right of this to a lower ledge at about 2/3 the height of the crag.

[21] 20m

Start just right of a large, grey block at a ~5m high, shallow recess capped by a small roof. Crank up to the roof then reach a little right until able to reach past the roof and pull up left onto a small ledge. Climb straight up to the ledge.

Climbs the middle of the face about 10m right of a large, rightward tending crack.

[21] 30m

Start just left of the undercut section. Climb up, tending just slightly right, to the apex of a large, grey, triangular flake in front of the upper face. Step off the flake, move carefully left to a crack, and climb this to the top.

A steep and pumpy route on great holds. From the Cave, walk toward the Solitare wall, and you will find the route on your right after ~200m, just left of Tinkerbell. Scramble up a knobbly groove to the base.

Starting just left of a hollow, use a break to gain a rail ~3m up. Pull through a narrow roof to the steep face above with pockets. Straight up to the roof, then follow the right tending crack out of the roof to a narrow ledge at the top.

Descent: walk left to join the standard Spout descent route.

Start up the wide, overhanging crack to the base of Sting. Move up and left to into a left-facing brown corner. Traverse left for ~2m and then up to the top.

The route climbs easily from the ledge past the huge block to under the red roof. And there is a sting for the last move or two.

Descent: Walk 10m or so left to the thread point and biner at the top of Sling or walk off to the right.

Start up a featured face (just right of the path leading to the water spot) up to the steep orange rock. Pull through some rails and then easily up to a featured layback. At the small ledge, move about 1.5m left and up to a rail. Use good holds on the face to reach the next ledge and follow the short left-facing corner to the top.

History: The bolt is one of Mike Scott's ancient alpine ones (very short and small) which Don Hartley hammered in while standing on Keith Fletcher’s head, and Keith was tied to a wonky piton. They had no nuts and no cams back then.

Take the easier diagonal line on pitch 6

Great climbing, but the short crux section does require bold climbing above a ledge.

The route starts on the ledge on the SW side of the Spout that is accessed from the deck above Spout Cave. The start is to the right of where Vital Statistix and Bazooka Rodeo cross the ledge, at a series of vertical cracks running up the right side of a large stepped flake.

1. 45m (21R) Follow the cracks to a ledge. Move left and then up to a rail. Continue up the face (crux, take care, the only gear is a #0 RP) to the narrow overlap above. Step right and then back left above the overlap and up to a small ledge. Head up and right to gain the right-facing corner above. Follow the corner system and exit left to the ledge.

2. 40m (18) Move right from the stance along a narrow ledge to a series of good flat holds up the orange face. Pull onto the next section of wall at the break (shared with Bazooka Rodeo) and then head up and left into a short, right-facing corner capped by a small roof. Pass this on the right and then continue up and slightly left to the ledge.

3. 10m (20) Pull onto the white face and up into the crack that arches left and then vertically to a small overhang. Rail right until able to pull through and then easily to the top.

Start about 5m right of Dragonboat. Rail in from the right and up a steep crack system. Move slightly left and up the face, finishing at the arched crack at the top. Scramble off back.

A deceptively tricky recess opposite the Dragon Wall.

Perma-draws at the top.

On the front of the buttress climb a series of vertical cracks (some slightly suspect rock near the top of this section). Continue up to the bulge, and climb up the steep crack splitting the bulge. Continue easily to the top.

The vague arête just right of Skeletium Skank. Tricky start followed by lovely, but slightly runout climbing.

Take the wide slot that eventually narrows to a hand crack above the pod, between The Passion and Golden Handshake. Better than it looks.

This route is on the wall that forms the gulley on the first buttress to the right of the King Cobra Prow. Start up the middle break with a tricky start. At the ledge step right to use a lower section of the roof to pull through and then step left and straight up the face to the top. Start will be harder for shorter folks.

Start in the same place as Prisoners of the Sun, from the stack of blocks.

1. [18] 30m

   Climb straight up the break, to a stance below a groove in a semi-cave.

2. [21] 12m

   Traverse left and up a short face via strenuous moves to reach a rail. Traverse left and up to a stance on a narrow ledge (shared with 'Quite Something').

3. [16] 15m

   Climb straight up the short face ('Quite Something' heads up and right) to a ledge. Walk right to a short right facing corner.

4. [19] 10m

   Climb the corner, starting on the face on the right. More tricky than it looks. Walk to the back of the ledge, where the next pitch starts from in the trees.

5. [15] 40m

   Pull up onto the featured face to the left of the big gully. Soon becomes an easy, juggy ramp to the top.

A direct ending to Satisfaction Guaranteed

1. As for Satisfaction Guaranteed.

2. As for Satisfaction Guaranteed.

3. 21 (30m) Climb up the corner, then up the face and aim for the pocketed roof above. Pull through the right break to gain the featured face above. Continue easily to the ledge and then up and slightly right to below a chimney feature.

4. 16 (35m) Climb the face/arete on the left side of the chimney.

The aesthetic arete visible on the right as you walk up the gulley toward the Knobless Robot. Sketchy gear in places, possibly some loose rock.

Start in the narrow section of the path in front of a large boulder. Pull up to a rail and traverse right almost into a recess on the right side of the feature. Pull up and left on steep grey rock to reach the slabby right side of the arete. Step left and up the arete to the bulge. Step left to gain good holds, up ~2m then step back right and up to the top. Tat rap point.

This route is on the opposite side of the gully. You’ll pass it if you opt to walk from #2 to #3.

A bouldery climb following a spectacular line on the prow.

1. A difficult start in the corner gains the chimney. Climb it to a ledge.

2. Climb the arching crack to the skyline (crux). Continue following the crack until reaching a large ledge.

Note: with careful rope management it is probably better to combine both pitches.

Exit: scramble out in the gulley a few meters to the right.

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)