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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
12 Delusions Of Grandeur

Not sure whether this should be under 'Mt Pox' or 'Slander Gully'.

Start: Follow track to knobbly, steep wall 100 metres right and upstream from Gastronomique Wall.

From middle right of wall follow a series of cracks vaguely left to headwall.

FA: Christina Freestone & Greg Aimer, 1993

Trad 25m
21 Pretty Poxy

Excellent route. Double ropes essential.

Start: Start just left of bivvy cave.

Trad 25m
13 Arctic Pox

Start: Start just where the track emerges from the bivvy cave area.

Trad 40m
18 Howling Huskies

Start: Start on right side of bivvy cave wall, a few metres left of the first chimney/chasm.

Trad 50m
15 Roll Over, Oates

Great for the grade.

Head left up staircase to arete on wall right of chimney/chasm. Steep corner to small roof, then right to headwall.

FA: Greg Aimer & Christina Freestone, 1994

Trad 48m
19 Scott's Last Move

Start: Start at wall 4 mtres right of "Roll Over, Oates"

Trad 48m
18 Snow Cat Rock 'n' RoIl

Start: Start on left end of ledge off rocking block.

Trad 50m
23 Taste of Husky

Thin, steep crack up blank wall with good gear. Start 2 metres left of Snow Cat Rock 'n' Roll.

  1. 20m 23 Left-leading pumpy crack with difficult reachy move at fixed wire to ledge.

  2. 30m, 18 Straight up middle of wall on good jugs but spaced gear.

FFA: 2003

FA: Neil Monteith & Geoff Butcher, 2003

Trad 60m, 2
20 Pox on the Run

Start: Start at undercut wall 3 metres left of prominent undercut corner.

Trad 45m
5 Scabs On Heat

Reported as dangerously loose by the FA party.

Start: Start below a large roof which is a prominent feature of the crag (VRG)

  1. 35m (5) Up the line to a perched boulder. Back off a little and go up the right-hand crack to a large ledge on the right.

  2. 35m (5) Climb up to the roof. Back off a little and traverse right instead and finish up the wall right of the roof on awesome jugs.

FA: Neil Barr & Julie Flynn, 1985

Trad 70m, 2
16 Pox FM

Swing left over bulge to ledge as for "Pox Trot". Step right and up rounded arete to finish on ledge. Abseil from sling or do further 30 metres of easy climbing (?Scabs On Heat)

FA: Neil Monteith, 2003

Trad 15m
12 The South Pox

Face on one of the last walls at right-hand end of cliff, with tree on ledge at 15 metres.

  1. 35m (12) Up to ledge.

  2. 35m (12) Left-facing corner on upper wall.

FA: Michael Hampton & Geoff Butcher, 1996

Trad 70m, 2
19 Jive Ass

This climb is on the South facing wall of the buttress above Mt Pox (also directly uphill from Curiosity). In the middle of the wall is a wide crack, this climb takes the clean line up wall to the R. Up just L of R facing corner and past overlap to the top.

FA: Goshen Watts, Jimmy & Pete Bovino, 14 Mar 2016

Trad 12m
16 Desperation and Humiliation

Was the first attempt at Jive Ass. A flailing leader could not handle the pump and so bailed into the disgusting off width full of moss. Climb Jive Ass to horizontal, traverse L to offwidth and grovel up. Alternatively just look, laugh and go enjoy Jive Ass.

FA: Pete Bovino, 13 Mar 2016

Trad 14m

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