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  6. Quantum Field

Quantum Field

(49 routes)

The area of boulders in the middle of Castle Hill Kura Tawhiti has the main concentration of route climbing. For bouldering visit http://castlehillbasin.co.nz

Type: 
Wall
Reference Title Grade Length Quality Bolts Gone Natural pro Link to edit content
Secret Covenant of Marriage 26
0
 2bolts
Lh-side of wall
S& Slap and Tickle 21
0
 2bolts
Climb the slabby arete.
Merv English 1989
Love Buckets 12
0
 3bolts
Climb the slab with massive buckets in it.
Peter Mack 1988
TD The Downtrodden 22
0
 3bolts
Climb the L leaning ramp onto a crack.
Paul Hersey 1993
ST Shout to the Top 17
2.01
 5bolts 1
Climb the arete.
Jim Spencer 1988
SU Slip Up 20
1.02
 3bolts
Climb up via L-wards to gain the arete.
Merv English 1989
General Ledger 16
0
 2bolts
Start on the right. Move L-wards to finish through the hole.
Jim Young 1989
JS James' Slab
0
 1bolts
Slab Route
James Moar 1986
The Black Vegetable 25
1.02
 2bolts
Climb through 2 scoops.
Ivan Vostinar 1999
Second Floor 24
2.01
 2bolts
Smear climbing through and over the lip and beyond.
Ivan Vostinar 1999
Mung Bean 23
0
 2bolts
Climb through the scoop, and over the lip.
Ivan Vostinar 1999
Fraudulent Dreams of Teenage Appetite 24
0
 1bolts
Bridgeing and slopers.
Phil de Joux 1987
Shriekback 18 ,13
0
 5bolts
Start on right-hand side of the slab, move leftwards under the overhang to belay in the hollow.
#EwbankAlpine (Technical)Alpine (Commitment)Alpine (Mt Cook)AidWater IceMixedBoulder (Hueco)LengthBoltsTrad
1180m3No
 

Start on right-hand side of the slab, move leftwards under the overhang to belay in the hollow.
2130m2No
 

Keep moving leftwards to the rap station
Nigel Perry 1988
Greenpiece 17
0
 wire representing trad
Climb large crack then move R-wards into another crack.
Nigel Perry 1989
MF My Feet Are My Friends 26
3
 5bolts
Climb the groove.
Phl de Joux, 1996
PG Pathetic Gropes 24
1.02
 2bolts
Climb L-wards up a ramp, then crank around the arete and onto the top.
Phil de Joux 1986
Heretic 20
0
 wire representing trad
Climb crack. Hard start.
Mark Wastson 2000
I'm the Boss 26
0
 3bolts
Climb the wall on small edges.
Peter Taw 1993
KR King of the Road 24
1.02
 1bolts
Short arete
Dave Fearnley 1988
BL Big Ling 16
0
 2bolts
Dave MacLeod, 1990
Little Ling 18
0
 4bolts
Chris Warner 1990
Turkey Teeth 20
0
 2bolts
Starts up a groove to finish up the wall.
Merv English 1990
LC Limestone Cowboy 21
1.02
 1bolts wire representing trad 2
Climb the crack until it runs out and finish off on the face.
John McCallum 1987
Hi Houdini 28
1.02
 3bolts
Traverse L-wards then upwards on pockets.
Ivan Vostinar 1999
MP Mac's Plank 20
1.02
 8bolts
Start off the pedestal, onto the boulder the traverse L-wards and upwards with the help of monos.
Dave McLeod 1990
The 5.10d Off-width 21
0
 wire representing trad
Diagonal seam capped with a cracked boulder
John Allen 1980
The Graze 18
0
 2bolts
Slab route
Paul Hersey 1993
PD Pig Dog 25
0
 1bolts
Startb on pile, then traverse L-wards across pockets then up.
Steve Grkovic 1993
Sqaushed Gecko 17
0
 wire representing trad
A short off-width/ crack.
John Howard 1979
Bloozin' 23
0
 2bolts wire representing trad
Start up SG. Travrese R-wards after the chockstones.
Paul Tattersall 1986
VG Vicious Games 25
2.01
 3bolts
Climb thin yellow wall, via R-wards onto finishing slab.
Ton Snelder 1986
DS Dr Squat 22
1.02
 2bolts 4
Start up the slab and move through spaced pockets and face climbing.
David Newstead 1993
Unbearable Lightness 16
1.02
 2bolts
Boulder start then a step up.
Paul Hersey, Kent Wilson 1993
The Day the World Stood Still V6
3
Very high, technical, thin crack. Put up by John Allen back in the day, bouldered but given grade 24 originally as V-grades didn't exist yet.
John Allen, 1980
MB Max Blanck 21
1.02
 2bolts
Start up crack from L, and finish off the slab above the break.
John Skilton 1987
Expressway Pile Up 21
0
 wire representing trad
Opposite Hg Climb through short line of pocks, then on to slab, and finishing up laybacking a crack. Bolts Removed!
Marcus thomas 1991
EV El Vista 13
1.02
 3bolts
Climb the arete.
Robin Hood, 1987
BP Bonza Pipeline 24
1.02
 4bolts
On the KitD boulder. Climb the groove in the middle of the wall
Tony Burnell 1997
Schrodinger 25
1.02
 4bolts
Climb the thin face to the L of the arete
Andy Cockburn 1998
Hg Heisenberg 21,24
2.01
 5bolts
Climb the shallow groove to the belay ledge.
#EwbankAlpine (Technical)Alpine (Commitment)Alpine (Mt Cook)AidWater IceMixedBoulder (Hueco)LengthBoltsTrad
1210m1No
 

Climb the shallow groove to the belay ledge.
2240m4No
 

Climb pocketed arete.
Dave Fearnley 1988
Put up your Dukes 28
0
 3bolts
Glued chipped drilled
Lionel Clay
HB Hunters Bar 24
2.01
 2bolts 4
Climb the yellow face, exit r-wards after clipping the 2nd bolt.
John McCallum 1986
NE Nether Edge 21
3
 2bolts
Climb the arete on the NW edge of the boulder.
John Allen 1979
Offwidth Problem 16 10m
0
 wire representing trad
On the south side of the narrow gully behind Hunters Bar.
CC Chit Chat 20
0
 1bolts
The left exit from a big scoop
Phil de Joux 1986
Yakkity Yak 22
1.02
 1bolts
The right exit from the big scoop
Phil de Joux 1986
TA Toxic Avenger 25
0
 2bolts
10m left of Moment of Greed. Traverse rightwards into the climb and ascend the weakness.
Mark Watson,w 1999
MG Moment of Greed 29
1.02
 2bolts
The left-hand side of the gently overhanging yellow wall. Faces west.
Colin Pohl, 1989
SH Suicide by Hallucination 26
2.01
 2bolts
Right-hand side of the slightly overhung yellow wall, facing west.
Roland Foster 1985
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Comments

Submitted by petemoore on Tue, 02/06/2015 - 14:34

The North Side pic has several errors: FB & GF are swapped, and ST & BV are incorrectly located. I volunteer to fix it if anyone has a copy of the original pic!