This is the large orange lichen-covered cliff above the path 50m west of Crag X.
A band of poor rock low down corrupt the otherwise good solid rock with adventurous climbing and at over twenty metres, the routes are of reasonable length. There are now top belay bolts.
The short steep wall left of Gorgeous Groove will produce a couple of problems which will be low on pro.
There has been a number of climbs described below, some have disappeared in the earthquakes.
Allan Hill and friends put in trad routes in the late 90s, since then the crag has been abandoned, currently the crag is getting modernised, with routes that carry on through the the length of the crag.
Approaches
The simplest approach is from the Summit Road at the Major Hornbrook Track, as for Lyttelton Rock, and walking along the bluffs track. However this is quite long. The fastest approach is to park on the Summit Road about at the macrocarpa trees and walk south across Richmond Hill Farm, Southwards along the vehicle track to the gun implacements, go to the right hand end (west) and pick up and follow, the track that drops downwards over the crest of the ridge, (towards Lyttleton Rock).
Places
Type | Name |
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Sector | Crag V |
Routes
Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Operations |
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Gnarly Stools | 16 | |||||
Three Blind Mice | 19 | |||||
PJ | Peanut Butter & Jam | 19 | 25m | 6 | ||
RH | Right Hexit | 19 | 25m | 3 | ||
WW | Welease Woderiwick | 22 | 25m | 8 | ||
PL | Plum Line | 21 | 25m | 7 | ||
FC | Flying Circus | 22 | 25m | 7 | ||
Qk | Quaker | 22 | ||||
PB | Peaky Blinders Orders | 18 | 25m | 8 | ||
HB | Heavy Boson | 20 | 25m | 5 | ||
Sc | Scorpion | 18 | 25m | |||
Gg | Gwabingo | 18 | 18m | 4 | ||
OP | Orange Peel | 16 | ||||
FGD | I fart in your genewal diwection | 15 | 20m | 7 | ||
CM | Coconuts Migwation | 16 | 20m | 8 | ||
Flamin’ Glory | 15 | |||||
No Future | 16 | 22m | ||||
Storeman Norman | 20 | |||||
Death By Apathy | 19 | |||||
Gorgeous Groove |
Less of it fell down than I expected. Good to see you tying it together with bolts Grubbie