Routes as boulder in The Stronghold

The most worthwhile problem on the boulder, the southern arete. Great climbing for the grade. Watch you don't put your foot in the wombat burrow.

stand start

The arête a few metres right of the VE.

Start on arete at the V1 climb, traverse leftwards to finish up V3.

SDS

SDS - The footwork beta problem. Up the centre of the face from a stistart. Harder if you're short.

SDS

The awesome steep arete. Traverse left to jugs about two thirds the way up.

Start up the crack a couple of metres left of Crack of Doom. Move right into Crack of Doom at the Top. Good moves and improving rock as you go higher, a tad committing but with a flat landing.

The awesome highball crack

Face around the arete right of Crack of Doom, to left of ramp.

Project - Thin face right of Limpet. Move left at the top.

Sustained dead-pointing up pockets and features on slightly overhanging wall.

Stand - Start at a good side pull of "Bug, Power, Dust" then up to rail and veer right past sidepulls and slaps to finish near "Don't fight it". Refuse the temptation to use left crack system. A little Contrived.

Start on the same sloping jugs as The Panics, do it's crux move and then go right and hug your way up the belly of the boulder.

Start left of the arete, move right.

Short arete on left end of slab.

Up the groove.

Left side of slab.

Right side of slab.

Traverse slab left to right. Starting on V0 to the left finish on right

This problem is on the small block between Grey Slab and Vitriol Boulder.

A silly little problem guaranteed to make you giggle. Sit start hugging the arete with two sidepulls, then go up. One star for making you giggle.

Highball - the juggy arete on the left hand end of the cliff line.

Up left side of prow to the jugs above the old carrot. Continuing on towards the prow will tale some balls.

Project

The obvious traversing arete, classic for the grade.

A right-left traverse has been done starting at the V0 finishing on Sunset Arete.

Up the horizontal slopes from a sit start.

Climb up the centre of the slab that starts around waist height.

Starting on low crimps, climb the arete right of the slab.

Up middle of the face downhill.

Laydown start on the rail under the lip. Heelhook the lip and mantle. A 'classic' in the same league as Titanic.

Stat at the big hold as for the next problem, traverse left along the lip with choss for feed.

Sit start at big jug, straight up face to hole.

Arete, then move left to hole.

Up dirty arete to big hole.

Start to the right, move leftwards up flakes to hole.

Awesome highball arete.

Traverse from jugs leftwards on flakes towards the jugs on the arete. No doubt will get harder as the flakes bust off.

Nice face on the opposite side of the boulder from Straight Lines. Stand start on rail and straight up and over, lots of variations, all of them pretty fun.

Short arete on left side of the Better With Age face, from a sit start.

Start at narrow pocket, move left to arete and up

Arete opposite Vitriol, staying on the face.

The beautiful curved arete. Sit start is about V4 but awkward

Start as Vitriol then chuck left to a flake and continue left via crimps to top out on the obvious horn. Bring a couple pads or helmet.

Starting on the two sidepulls left of Vitriol, heading straight up. A harder line will go that starts further right leading to the sidepulls.

Traverse the lip rightwards.

On the right hand side of the block, sit-start of the pinch on the arete and up to flat jug just below top of boulder and top out.

SDS - On boulder between Dave's Arete and Two Face boulder. Sit-start off large rightward sloping ledge via slot to left arête then up to top.

Slab right of arete

Next slab right

Next slab right

Right hand arete of slab

There are 4 - 5 VE's on the boulder.

right hand arete

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Start on pockets then up and left to the big sloper - still awaiting a topout.

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