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Nettle Buttress

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접근 문제들 Western Gara Gorge으로부터 상속된

Access to Dome Wall or Persian Carpets involves driving through private property to reach the Gara Gorge. Contact must be made with the landowners prior to heading out there:

Mike Coffey (Kenwood Park): 02 6775 3766

Pete and Susanne or Jeff Moore: 02 6775 3727

It is important to let the Coffeys know you’re coming (as access is very close to their house), and ask the Moores for permission to cross their land (providing the most efficient access to Dome Wall or Persian Carpets).

Good relations with these landowners are essential for New England climbers, and all visitors in the future, to access these excellent crags, so please treat them with respect. Leave all gates as you find them, cross fences at the strongest strainer post, etc etc. Access is likely to be refused if tenants are in the Moores’ ‘holiday’ house, so please be patient or better still ask about staying there yourself.

This is a link to a file you can use in Google Earth to see a map to The Dome Wall Parking area:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24251869/Dome%20Wall%20Etc%20Access.kmz

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Nettle Buttress is an historic area in that it was one of the first cliffs in Gara Gorqe to be climbed on in modern times. The first recorded route being ‘Serenity' 17 by Trevor Gynther and Al Stephens in April 1975 and to this day that is probably the best route at Nettle Buttress. 0ther routes recorded in 1975 of interest were ‘Dirty Trick' 15 by Brian Birchall and Jill Kelman ‘Trendsetter’ by Birchall, Phil Prior, and Kelman ' Little Hercules' 15 by Kelman Birchall, and Stephens and nearby on Isolated Buttress Bob Killip and Birchall did the first route; 'Adamant' I7. Also of historical interest was 'The Junkman' 12Ml by Stephens and Ian Craven in November of 1975 which was one of the first routes in New England to receive a bolt (for aid in this case). There has been very little interest in any of these areas since 1975, most climbers preferring the more easily accessible areas downstream. The occasional visit during the 14 years since then however, has yielded a few new routes although the only one of any real interest being 'Love is a Dog from Hell’ l9M0 by AI Stephens and Rob Clark in 1980 (and freed a year later by Mark Colyvan and Brian Birchall at 2l) on 'Isolated Buttress’.

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Start: a wall split with large cracks.

Up the cracks on the front of the broken block. At about l7m traverse right, then up crack to top.

FA: Brian Birchall & Phil Prior, 1975

A trendy line.

Start: the crack left of ‘Zig Zag.

  1. 15m (crux) Up the impressive crack to a large ledge.

  2. 24m Up the crack to a ledge, traverse right then up a tight chimney.

FA: Brian Birchall, Phil Prior & Jill Kelman, 1975

Start: At groove that seems to disappear into the mank.

Straight up the crack, take the right groove at 21m, up bottle neck to a large ledge.

FA: Al Stephens & Jill Kelman, 1975

Start: on the right-hand side of the scrubby corner left of ‘Wild Fire’.

  1. 25m Up trending right, a left-hand offwidth/fist crack, then right onto face, up to tree on large ledge, then up to tree belay.

  2. 35m Left onto block, then right, up a sloping ledge with numerous small trees. Up crack through slab, trending right to tree belay.

  3. 10m Up gully system trending right to tree belay.

FA: John Lattanzio & 0. Pritchard, 1979

Start: in a corner below the huge roof.

  1. 15m From the corner move left across the sloping ledge and up to tree belay.

  2. 39m (crux) Left, up offwidth to top of block. Up crack into recess, then upopen corner to ledge. Up the shallow groove to tree belay.

  3. 20m Scramble to a large ledge. Left up the corner crack, up on slab, then move right under overhanging wall, around the corner and up to tree belay.

FA: Brian Birchall & Jill Kelman (alt leads), 1975

Start: 1m from ‘Dirty Trick’ at large corner. (The first ascensionists failed to mention whether this 2m left or 2m right).

  1. 30m Head into gully, folios crack, then head up left into loose rock area, up onto large rock from where rock belay secures position.

  2. 23m (crux) Head up near tree, ascend main wall above tree onto sloping ledge (to the right). Use small protection on ledge until ledge becomes more vertical where main protection is needed. Jamming and use of friends up the corner is good. Scramble to rocks then on top of this for belay (near the long tunnel chimney crack). It’s possible to go on a further 6-7m for tree belay but not much protection here.

  3. 12m Up onto smooth face towards obvious overhang. Traverse left to a prominent boulder under overhang, then climb out and belay from a tree.

FA: .M. Hyde & R.A. Hyde, 1986

Start: A leaning corner crack.

  1. 30m (crux) Up the shallow crack, over block, then up the off width to a ledge.

  2. 26m Straight up the crack to a small roof. Out and around this to belay ledge.

FA: Trevor Gynther & Al Stephens (alt leads), 1975

Start: A fine crack to the right of ‘Schizophrenic’.

  1. 22m Up thin crack, blocks and ledges to base of a short crack. Up this to ledge.

  2. 26m As for second pitch of ‘Serenity’.

FA: Al Stephens, Phil Prior & Brian Birchall, 1975

Start: A crack between ‘Stampede’ and ‘The Junk Man’.

  1. 27m (crux) Up corner to a vertical crack at the base of a large block. Up crack onto block.

  2. 24m Two or three nuts for aid over bulge, then free up the flake crack and aid up to roof, then move right on aid (pegs in place). Up the gap in roof to tree belay.

FA: Brian Birchall & Al Stephens (alt leads), 1975

Start: A thin flake below a bulge.

Up the flake then aid over the bulge and up the crack. Where the crack runs out (bolt in place) move left on tension, then up to to tree.

FA: Al Stephens & Ian Craven, 1975

Start: At the far left end of the buttress, a corner crack aith a flake start.

  1. 18m (crux) Onto block,then move into the corner, up into crack then chimney and gully to tree.

  2. 21m Up chimney, move around a small roof, then up the groove to tree.

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