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Conspicuous double arete problem near where the foot track enters the plateau area

SDS from sloper, into chunky rail and up flakes. Alternative descent route.

Big start holds - facing Party Boulders. Pistol squat mantle to slopey dishes

Sit start makes it harder.

Sit start on left side of arete

From the crack straight up with pocket

Sit start. Nice little problem on small boulder facing diagonal

Very short slab; good for learning to smear; trust your shoe soles! For guide: Scramble up to the top from the back, sling the horn near the bolt with a long cord and equalize with the bolt to build a top rope anchor.

Hand crack

30-50 meters to the north of Bare Necessities.

Over the chocked block of rock and through the hand crack going right diagonally, and then left to the top of the chimney. Crux involves transitioning into the hand crack from over the wide chimney.

Exit: Walk left, over the boulders, to the trees, and a 15-meter rappel

Facing: North:

Rack: Mid-sized pieces

Anchor: At the end of chimney, cracks.

Natural Anchor: None

FKA: Amrit Appaden and Sohan, April 2021

The offwidth on the Zen Garden boulder, facing north.

Starts in a chimney left of a tree. Through the tree to the offwidth.

This face of the Zen Garden boulder is covered by thick vegetation.

Rack: Slings for the tree, and #4, #5, #6 (optional) cams. Large hexes and small gear for the anchors.

Anchor: Boulders and cracks below the boulders

Natural Anchor: Boulders

FKA: Caleb Daniel and Amrit Appaden, Apr 2021

Finger and hand crack

Left of the offwidth on the Zen Garden boulder, facing north.

Start on the horizontal crack to the left, and then through the tree and then through the vertical crack. The start is simpler than it looks, and the crux is the commitment before the top out. Suggested to protect the traverse to protect the second. At the crux, at the top, finger jams or lean out to the right with the feet in the crack. Exciting top out.

Rack: Finger- to hand-sized cams/nuts to lead, and anchoring gear as mentioned for Peanut Stall. Offset nuts of the mid to larger sizes or the tricams shine here.

FKA: Sohan and Shyam Krishnakumar, Apr 27th, 2021

Chimney for about 15-20 feet between the King Swing Boulder and the Mango Seed boulder, protect using the wide to hand-sized cracks, and over to the ledge.

From the ledge to the tree is a run-out section. Protect the tree and top-out to the left.

Rack: #4,#3, and #.3 (to protect on the ledge), or a set of large hexes.

Anchor: Trees and cracks. If using the trees, long cordages for top-rope anchors. For the crack, hand- and fist-sized pieces.

Natural Anchors: Trees.

FKA: Amrit Appaden & Sohan. May 11th, 2022.

The line that goes up straight after the chimney on the Bar-Stool Traverse.

Best to break up this line into two pitches. Set-up an anchor after the chimney, as high as possible, in the wide-crack.

Top-out through the hand-crack and the roof. Traverse left through the vegetation.

If setting up as a top-rope line, and possible to exit using the tree growing to the right, though looks sketch.

Rack: One #6 cam for the chimney section below or run it out to the finger-sized crack about 20-feet from the ground. #3 and below for rest of the route.

Exit: The sketch ‘tree’ to the right in the chimney. Safer to top-out, and then walk left and then down the slope, through the talus field and an experience of terrain.

FKA: Charan Hanumanthappa, Tanmayi Geedh, Sohan. July 3rd, 2022.

Chimney A stand-alone boulder to the left at the base of Higher Than Noon bouder.

Solo it out, and protect the top with hand or fist sized cam.

There is another chimney to the right and behind this block of rock.

Route and name courtesy, Subhash

Far right on the east face of the boulder.

Starting left of the crescent shaped feature, traverse right, through a series of horizonal cracks, finding the weakness in the rock.

Rack: Finger sized nuts and Cams

Anchor: Large boulder behind, and some directional pieces.

Natural Anchor: Boulder atop the rock

FKA: Amrit Appaden, Feb 2021

Additional top-ropeable lines could be set up to the right and left of the off-width.

The jagged face to the left (5.8), face to the right of the crack (mid-5.11), stem- chimney to the right (5.6/7). And one further to the right in the Stem-Chimney (5.5).

Beginner-friendly route with a gully being the main feature between the second and third bolt.

Route by Anand Bhat and Amrit Appaden

As you walk along the base to the south, a couple of slabs separated by a channel filled up with mud.

Both sets of the slabs could be protected with gear or from the trees atop them.

Three lines here; one of which could be led on gear, and the other two are currently soloed.

The leadable line is to the far left, thin cracks take finger sized pieces (cams only). Or maybe pitons. The take-off crux here, and then easy line to the top.

The weakest (5.5) take-off section is to the right. And then follows a series of weaknesses diagonally going left. And top out towards the left horizontal crack.

The third line follows to the right, closer to the edge, and then exposed but easy climbing to the tree.

Three top-rope lines could be setup, with one from the tree in the channel, and two on either side about 8-10 feet below in the horizontal cracks.

FKA: Sohan. July 31st, 2022.

Squeeze chimney.

The standalone stack, north-west of the temple on the slab. From the base of MS Betta, the stack looks quite impressive.

Hike west from the temple, and mildly north to locate this stack sitting atop the slabs.

The line through the chimney can be protected after 15 odd feet using the chocked boulder. The crack formed by the wedged boulder, takes hand-sized or finger-sized piece. From atop the boulder leaning on the main stack, easy scramble to the top.

Exit: To the east or south-west, scrambling lines.

Rack: Mid-to large sized nut or hexes, or similar sized cams.

Anchor: Cracks

Natural anchor: Sling the boulders with 20- or 30-foot long cordage

FKA: Sohan & Amrit Appaden, Dec 1, 2021

Through the hand crack inside the cave to the south-west corner, over the ledge, follow the thin seam behind the tree, over the slab, and then top out through either of the two cracks to the far right on the south-face. Both cracks provide good protection.

The left side crack takes nuts, and about four-five feet to the right, the alternate crack takes hand-sized pieces. Both provide exciting finish to this short line.

The route traverses quite a bit, so plan accordingly.

Rack: From one odd Micro nuts in the seam on the slab, all the way up to #3 cams. Between the tree and the cracks before the top out, a finger sized cam would help protect.

Anchor: About 200- or 250- kg boulder sitting atop the stack, or cracks.

Exit: Plan to take a five-meter length of Tat (old webbing or rope) to leave behind, if the old Tat is deteriorating.

Route credit & FKA: Sohan, Kartik Vaithylingam, Akshay Kumar KV. Sep 15th, 2021.

Slabs to the east of the temple, or north of the Jenga Stack

Route Credit: Shyam Krishnakumar, May 2022

Corner finger crack.

This partially quarried high boulder offers a unique style of climbing for Bangalore.

Located a few meters to the south of the Breathe-in Off-width. Essentially the twin boulder that forms the Breathe-in Chimney/Offwidth

Take-off is the crux. If climbing on the slab alone, the grade kicks up a few notches. If climbing the corner, in any fashion, the grade drops to the one stated above.

The corner crack fills up with mud and the vine keeps growing back and blocks the crack. Needs to be cleaned up to climb free.

Rack: Set of smaller nuts, and finger or double finger sized cam.

Anchor: The tree about 15-feet from the edge.

FKA: Sohan & Amrit Appaden. May 21st, 2022.

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Shares the anchor bolts with Life Begins at 40.

First bolt is at a shorter distance than all other routes here.

Bolted in Feb 2016.

FA, Seema Pai

The route ends left of a large bucket/grass patch.

If rapping all the way down, a 60-meter rope might fall short by a meter or two on the easy slab.

FA, Latha BN

Put up in 1983/84 by Mico Ramesh via the chimney crack.

Either a variation or the original route was last climbed by Gujju and Suma during the Romp 2016. No top anchors. Walk off.

There is a harder start to the left of the tree, that will make it a 5.8, but a very short start problem.

You can also access from the right over the slab. Crosses a flaring wide crack. Shares the anchor with #3.

Route by Sohan Pavuluri & Narayan Pai, FFA: Narayan Pai

The first route at the crag, created ground up, which realized rest of the bolted routes.

One bolt. Trad climb. Top anchors bolted about 15 feet below the tree. The first ascent saw the tree being used as an anchor. This was the first route here.

Rack needed, between BD cam sizes .3 and 3.

FFA: Onsighted by Sohan Pavuluri with support from Narayan Pai/Karthik Vijayakumar

Mixed trad climb, or run out the one place, where gear can go into a horizontal crack.

Start either from the base, or scramble up the rock to the right, and get below to the first bolt.

Route credit: Narayan Pai, Karthik Vijayakumar & Sohan Pavuluri. FFA: Karthik Vijayakumar

This ground up bolted route runs right of the Mayabazaar Chimney. Just another slab route. My first ever ground up bolted route.

FFA: Onsight by Sohan Pavuluri with support from Narayan Pai/Karthik Vijayakumar

P1 : 5.6

P2 : 5.5

Face and Traverse

Thamma

First ever route - easy- opened in this area by Harshavardhana & others of 'The Climbers' in late 1985.

First hillock

FFA: Harshavardhana & Others, 1985

First hillock

Guruprasad, Ramagopal & Dattatreya of 'The Climbers' in 1986

Second hillock

Guruprasad, Harshavardhan & Bindu, 1986.

On the rear face of the second hillock.

S.R.Balaji, Kamalesh & Jagadeesan, 1996.

Harshavardhan Subbarao, Gunda Srinivas, Prakash, & Dini (1986)

Dini Route.

Route by Srikanth, Dini, Raju K.H., & Pai (1985).

Cool arete high and easy

An easy mixed route. You could use some trad gear to finish the final pitch, but not necessary. Placing gear on the sixth pitch makes the pitch harder.

Gear: 60-meter rope, six-seven alpine draws (quick draws will create rope drag), and a couple of anchor setups. Trad gear is optional (#.3 to #3 cams)

P1: 5.5+, 55 meters, 6 + 2 bolts.

After the first bolt, the section is mossy, but with good solid holds.

P2: 5.4, 55 meters, 3 + 2 bolts.

Long easy pitch, with a bit of headwall, just below the P3 anchor station.

P3: 5.6, 50 meters, 6 + 2 bolts.

Steep slab with good holds all along.

P4: 5.6, 50 meters, 4 + 2 bolts.

Slightly run out, but the grade eases up much more than the previous pitch.

P5: 5.4, 50 meters, 1 + 2 bolt.

As you look up from the anchor station, the bolt is to the right edge of a cacti island, about 15-20 meters above you. From there, the route orients left, along a diagonal crack system. The route grade dips to 5.2-5.3, after the bolt.

P6: 5.4, 50 meters, 0 + 0 bolts.

Traverse left here on, under the roof crack for about 50 meters. The horizontal crack system of the roof will take BD Cams #3 and below up to #.03. Placing gear, requires you to get to the crack, which increases the grade. If using the gear, sling the tree, and run it out on the easy slab.

Top out at a bunch of flat boulders, sling the boulders and belay your second.

Exit: Hike out from the left.

Route Credit: Sohan, Bhaskar Bhat, Satish Venkatachaliah, & Gokul G. Recceing and logistics support: Atul Agarwal, Aby Iyer, Vinay Chandra, Prithvi Wanderer, Anusha Anu, Karthik Vijayakumar. FFA: Kowshik Narayanaswamy, Alok Tater and Gokul G, Jan 2015

Up easy blocks on far right of crag.

Intro to Rock climbing route. Big holds