Vanakkal Betta is about 70 odd km from the center of the city. There are eight currently known routes here, including one two-pitch route.
Technically, the crag is in the Ramanagara Vulture sanctuary, but there are no nesting sites here, and it is abutting a residential area (2016). The legality of climbing here is in the grey area. Except for one route put up by Achim Noller, the older routes have really old bolts. Climb at your own risk. As of July 2019, the Bangalore-Mysore highway bypassing Ramanagara seems to be going along the base of this crag.
You need to get a clearance for rock climbing in Ramanagara from Regional Forest Office located in the Ramanagara Town. A fee will be charged. The office is only open on weekdays. The rocks are cleared for activities from 6 AM to 6 PM.
On Bangalore-Mysore Road, before the center of Ramanagara town, make a right turn towards Ghousia College of Engineering (you would have to drive up further, make a U turn and then come back to make this a left turn). And as you continue driving, for a kilometer or so, past the residential area, the first hillock you see to your left is Vanakkal Betta or Hallimalla
This crag has a long history of climbing associated with it and was eventually developed for sport climbing by Dinesh Kaigonhalli and Mohit Oberoi in the 1990s, with a multi-pitch route being added in 2014 by Achim Noller.
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