TUBULAR AREA (Area B)

Walk approximately 1 hour from
the carpark. Follow a dry creek bed
through open ground. After 1 hour
of bush bashing you arrive to another
hour of steep tussock climbing that
leads you into a snow gully. In the
gully if conditions are right there will
be many 20 - 200m high pillars. When
this area was first visited conditions
were quite warm and only four routes
were formed. There were the remains
of many more sitting on the gully floor.
The base of the routes is approximately
3 hours from the car. For the first ascent of Tubular
conditions were very thin and it was graded WI5R. It
is likely the climb will be a grade easier if you find it in fat
conditions. Descent from all multi-pitch routes is by walking
along the ridge at the top of the climbs and decending
down the main snow gully via a short WI2 down climb.