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Hourglass & Centre Walls

Type
Face
Altitude
1500m
Part of
Cloudy Pk

The big wall, on the lower west side of Cloudy Pk.
It is now possible to abseil down the Hourglass Wall following the line of Sharp Shooter, using a single 60m rope.
Go to the top of the small gully to find the top rap station, the finds it’s way onto a large flat ledge, and then down the right side of the gully.
At the bottom of the the gully the descent route follows the Sharpshooter line.
At the 5-6 pitch change, the rap station is 10m right of the belay station.
At the 3-4 pitch change, go rightwards, there is a marker made of webbing, the rap station is just below that.

Aspect
West
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
Dm Demondim 24 150m
0
Ub Unbeliever 22 180m
1.02
Sharp Shooter 22 350m 9
3
Mission to Mercury 22 400m 16
1.02
MI Mission Impossible 17 325m
0
MA Mission Accomplished 19 300m
1.02
The Whole Nine Yards 21 330m 10
0
FR Fiddler on the Roof 20 280m
2.01
BD Big Dipper 25 300m 7
0
FL When the Frog Lifts 17 80m
1.02
SM When the Snow Melts 21 300m
0
HL Hourglass Left 19 300m
0
HR Hourglass Right 16 300m
0
The Hourglass Has Turned 19 300m
1.02
US The United States in Mind 18 300m
0
Yg Ytivarg 17 250m
2.01
SA Slip-sliding Away 15 200m
0

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Comments
cragrat

Lindsay Main would be the person to ask.

Sat, 25/03/2023 - 13:33 Permalink
Michael Eatson

FR Fiddler on the Roof is still incorrectly marked on the updated topo.

Fri, 24/03/2023 - 16:15 Permalink
Michael Eatson

Further right, I believe. Halfway between where BD and FR are currently marked on the topo. Might have been incorrectly copied across from the South Island Rock hand drawn topo. I thought it was a pretty obvious line, particularly the roof pitch and wall above. Climbed with Tawny Wagstaff in Mar 2016

Mon, 27/03/2023 - 08:53 Permalink
This place appears in
South Island Rock
The Canterbury Westland Alps: a climbing and transalpine guide, 1st edition
Attribution
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club

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