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Southerly Front Slab

Type
Sector
Part of
Twin Stream

‘Andy Macfarlane was on the phone, excited: “I’ve just seen the biggest unclimbed slab in Australasia and we’re going to put a route up the middle of it.”’
— Dave Brash, New Zealand Alpine Journal, 2001
This impressive feature of tilted greywacke is separated from the main wall at the top and is free of stone-fall danger except in the white corner and around the scree gully at its base.
Descent is possible from the top of the slab via fixed rap points (lower section equipped in 2021).

Access

The slab can be approached by climbing one of the two-pitch routes on the Half Moon Slab or via an easy gully in front of Half Moon Slab.

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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
Gomers Go Round 18 0m
0
Gomers Go To Ground 24 0m
2.01
Pulp Friction 20 0m 8
2.01
Fully Wired 22 0m 8
0
Southerly Front 23 0m 8
3
Ground Hog Day 20 0m 8
0
Sticky Date Pudding 24 0m 8
0
Rock Vandals 22 0m 11
0
The Western World 22 0m 8
0
Stealing a March 18 0m
0
March Hare 18 20m
2.01
January Hare 16 30m
0
Forced March 20 0m
1.02
Passing Through 18 0m
0
Corner Chimney 15 0m
0
Splitting Hares 18 0m
0
Comments
AlJMark

Does anyone know about the state of the bolts on "Sticky Date Pudding"?

Mon, 11/03/2019 - 16:48 Permalink
This place appears in
Ōhau Landsborough Alps: a guide for mountaineers, 2021
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