Grot View Cave

Sit start. A pump fest traverse that you will either want or hate. From furthest right in the dark low corner, (or from the nearest dry holds if theres seepage) follow the weakness which passes the big juggy plate and around the bulge into the grotty dark corner above the stream.

This is the first half and first crux of ‘Du Hast’, finishing on the big plate.

Starts up the huge jugs left of “Approaching Insanity” to the lip, then traverse it right using tension and a iron cross!. Finish standing on the far right points as for “Franks Route”

BILE...Sit or crouch start left of ‘Du Hast’with feet on the base rock.Out to the sloping V hold, a couple of moves on ‘Du Hast’ and then clench tight for some tenuous moves through the corner. Feet high will get you across left to the break and all the way along as far as the rock goes.

A sit start to the right off Du Hast. Start on slopers on the big overhung flake thing. Clamp your way out and reach right, past the tufa and dodgy looking ledges to get on the undercut far right face. More slopers get you set for an awkward lunge or, sweeter, a gaston in the small roof above to gain the right arete. The tufas are all eliminated on this line simply because they are wet for at least 95% of the year!

A fingery line to start followed by some fantastic burly moves. Starts at an apex half way round the traverse of ‘Approaching Insanity’. Feet on and throw for a high crimp right. Throw left hand to low undercling under the nose, then clamp your way out below the finishing traverse of ‘Franks route’.

SDS of Frantic. Start with feet on base rock at back of cave, find a couple of underclings, then out through the obvious crimps and sloper jug. Takes the direct line to link in to Frantic.

The best line in the cave so far. On the left side, below the finish off ‘Du Hast’, clamp using left hand on a good high sloper, right hand on a really bad one under the roof proper. Feet on and throw right for the sloping jug, match and on to the big plate. Halfway! Reach into the groove and through technical moves under and around the over hung bulge to the final traverse of ‘A Taste of bile’.

This was Franks original send but it wasn’t hard enough so he added all the moves before it. Starts at the juggy plate where ‘Approaching Insanity’ ends.

Burly gut wrenching moves will see you to the end of this one. Start as for ‘Du Hast’ but take the lower line on small slopers around the first corner. Leave this line before the juggy plate and drop on to the two small blobs. Reach or lunge all the way under the overhang then clamp your way to reach and finish at the sloping break of ‘Du Hast’. Perhaps on the stiff side of the grade, but a great send.

Finally a ‘vertical’ problem at grot-view and surprisingly technical. From the sloping break where ’Power Puku’ finishes, crank the sidepull, slap way left to slopers hen finish on the juggy breaks and jump off. This was graded V5 until Steve proved the sidepull to be online. The harder variation is also worth doing.

A Further variation to Standing Ovation is a problem of its own. Same start and taking the big sidepull, but uses handholds in the vertical crack only. Finishes on the same jugs.

This link up of ‘Power Puku’ and ‘Standing Ovation’ had to be done and needs a serious combo of power and stamina.

Waitomo’s first V10!. Sit Start in the middle of “Power Puku” and straight through the start of “Franks Better Half”, then through the “blank” horizontal roof out to the lip, finish up “Savage Alfresco”.