Kingfisher Slabs

Type

Sector

Part of

Sebastopol Bluffs

A small outcrop of red rock slabs to the right of the main Sebastopol crags.

Aspect

North East

Approach

From the carpark follow the track towards the Red Arete but veer R along the dry stream bed until you are below the crags. A well formed track zig zags up the hill arriving below Keep Left arête.

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Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Pro	Quality
R	RRequiem (for a friend)		14m	4	0
P1 14m 4 Thin, left leaning crack on the left of the wall to a bulge then up the left side on big holds. Try and avoid the left edge, move R to the anchor near the top.Anywhere dirty (left) is off route. In memory of local Mountan Guide Lewis Ainsworth killed in Canada 27/1/24. An optional small wire 1 rock, 3 RP is available before the first bolt but the clip is off good holds.
1	1Clean Hands, 20	20	20m	6	1.02
P1 20 20m 6 On the Lh- Side of the Kingfisher Wall. (A small red crag, on the right hand side of the large central scree). Good edgy climbing.
2	2Conservation Crack, 16	16	20m		0
P1 16 20m Trad The curving crack on the Lh end of the Kingfisher Wall. (A small red crag, on the right hand side of the large central scree).
3	3Dirty Digits, 19	19	40m	9	1.02
P1 19 40m 9 On the Lh-side of the middle slab of Kingfisher Wall, (A small red crag, on the right hand side of the large central scree).
	Kingfisher, 16	16	40m		0
P1 16 40m Trad The crack in the middle slab of the Kingfisher Wall. Currently this is totally overgrow and requires SERIOUS gardening efforts to resurrect it to climbable condition.
4	4Serias, 20	20	35m	10	2.01
P1 20 35m 10 The slab to the R of the Kingfisher crack.
5	5Keep Left Arete, 17	17	35m	9	2.01
P1 17 35m 9 On the Rh-end Kingfisher Wall. Climbs the Lh- side of the Rh wall. If you have a 60m rope you will need to swing R to the ledge by the Totara tree to touch down safely
6	6Sustalyte, 18	18	30m	5	1.02
P1 18 30m 5 Trad On the Right wall of the Kingfisher Walls. Climb up the centre of the Rh wall. Take some wires for a crack after the 5th bolt. It is still quite run out after that till the next one. Note This route was originally climbed on gear only, no bolts!!
7	7Old Soldiers Never Die, 16	16	30m	12	2.01
P1 16 30m 12 There is a route on the RHS of the Kingfisher Slabs. Grade 16. Put up by some of the Mt Cook SAR Team. Shares the RH anchor. This route has been climbed on trad gear.

Comments

This place appears in

Rock Deluxe South, 2014

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