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Fawlty Towers

Type
Altitude
150m
Part of

Compiled by Lindsay Main, Also previously hosted on a website by John Davis
Half way up the Purau Valley on the west side, a mass of rock crags are visible from the road to the Monument. Two reasonable crags are amongst these - Fawlty Towers and Dawn Wall. The right cliff, Fawlty Towers, was first visited by Murray Judge and Hugh Logan in 1976. Then Tim Wethey, Nigel Perry, and Peter Cleary visited in 1986.
Dawn Wall is 100m L of Fawlty Towers.
ClimateThe cliff gets full sun until early afternoon, and is shaded thereafter. The aspect varies a little so extra use can be made of sun or shade as desired. It is climbable year-round, but suits moderate weather - otherwise it can be too hot in the morning or too cold in the afternoon. There is good shelter from nor-west winds, and some shelter from southerlies. It is exposed to nor-easters. As the crag is clean it dries fast after rain.

Walktime
30 min
Aspect
North East
Lat/lon
POINT (172.7370627 -43.65335059)
Topo50
BX24 788 666
Access

Ownership
The owner is Zac Kyle of Bayview Road. Please text 027 604 1485, and only proceed once you have a reply.
Approach routes
Drive through Diamond Harbour and just past the road down to the shops and jetty turn right on to Waipapa Ave. Follow this up the hill to the end, where Bayview Road starts. Park at the entrance to the farm (marked "Chalfont") clear of the road and walk up the drive past the hedge, and follow the track up the spur past the hayshed and trees. Continue about 200 metres past a wooden gate. Angle up to the crest of the ridge where you should meet a steel gate, about 200 metres before another wooden gate. From the crest of the ridge sidle southward to a spur, drop down a bit, and descend a gully trending southward to the north end of the crag.
Access restrictions
Closed for lambing from mid-August to October. The farmer must be telephoned for permission the previous day.

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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
Fifty Guillotines 17 20m
0
Face Off 23 20m 5
3
Scorpion 18 20m
1.02
The Snarl 16 20m
0
Possum Patrol 15
0
Dead-eye Dick 17 20m
0
Bomb-bay Chimney 16 20m
1.02
Pugwash 19 20m 6
0
Dead Kippers 20 20m 4
0
Ivory Corner 14
0
Swift 17
1.02
The Yellow Peril 19 20m
0
Strip Mining 20 20m
0
Cracked Up 20 20m
0
Ama Dablam 17 20m
1.02
The Rat's Rest Home 21 20m 2
0
Manual's Rat 16
0
On The Face Of It 18 20m
0
The Flying Dustman 18 25m
0
Stinka 18 25m 3
1.02
Amnesia 20 25m 2
0
Starfish 16 20m 3
1.02
Splash 16 20m
0
Comments
steven.fortune

Retrieved a stuck cam from base of Ama Dablam. Old HB green one. If it's your's I'll get it back to you.

Sun, 28/04/2013 - 21:03 Permalink
Lindsay Main

Additional route info completed.

Thu, 25/10/2012 - 21:53 Permalink
UUID
 
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