The Whalebone slabs include the first walls encountered as you walk the track from the Osborne carpark.
Routes
Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Alert | Operations |
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RS | RSRiding Shotgun, 20 | 20 | 20m | 5 | |||
Up the groove on the right side of the boulder. Traverse right on pockets to a tricky move up to the ring belay.
Scramble up to the next block, hand traverse the rail then straight up the right hand arête. |
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1 | 1Paul and Pixie’s Sunday Outing, 18 | 18 | 10m | ||||
Up the slab from the top of the crack. |
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2 | 2Reality Surfing, 18 | 18 | 10m | 8 | |||
Climb the wall immediately right of the corner crack (that often sprouts blackberry) and onto the dimpled slab. This route was retrobolted in 2017. Follow lots of new bolts to the summit. |
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3 | 3Reality Direct, 18 | 18 | 10m | ||||
Potential for fall onto block on the move before the second bolt. DELETED |
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4 | 4Left Hand on the Whales Back, 16 | 16 | 8m | ||||
Start at the foot of arete behind detached block. |
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5 | 5Cheats Wall, 18 | 18 | 8m | ||||
R from first bolt of LHOTWB. |
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6 | 6Scapula, 19 | 19 | 8m | ||||
A good wee climb; tricky moves to nice faceclimbing. Escapable. |
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7 | 7Off the Shoulder, 17 | 17 | 8m | ||||
Good moves at the top. |