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Albert Terrace

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Albert Terrace is a small crag in suburban Christchurch. It is one of the very few crags that you can bus to and the only one on the flats of Christchurch City itself, which mean it has the easiest and quickest access of any crag on the Port Hills.
All the climbs are under grade 20 (most in the mid teens), so this is a good crag if you are making the transition from the indoor wall to your first outdoors experience,although the rock is quite polished and gets covered in pine needles and dirt from above. You will need a maximum of eight quickdraws (six for the climbs, if leading, and two for the anchor rings at the top). All climbs have double rings at the top and there are two sets of ring bolts at ground level ( left and right side ) for practicing ), which makes it a user-friendly crag, but please, if top roping, do not take the 'European approach' and run your rope straight through the rings as this creates wear and tear. Please use two carabiners.
History
Albert Terrace was first climbed on in 1997 by Ross Cullen and Rob Blackburne and was originally a trad crag. The crag has since been totally retro-bolted.
DRY TOOLING OPTIONS: Please note also that in the first cave opposite the main crag there are three bolted routes put in for dry tooling practice. Grades unknown.

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Walktime
10 mins
Aspect
East
Lat/lon
POINT (172.658083 -43.572556)
Topo50
BX24 724 755
Access

Albert Terrace is in the suburb of St Martins. If travelling down Wilsons Road, go straight ahead at the roundabout junction with Centaurus Rd (a Mobil service station will be on your left), and travel down Albert Terrace itself until the road ends at the last house and just before a gate. The main crag is visible from here, a few hundred metres on the right side of the valley. From the car park it is a 10 minute walk on the lower valley track.

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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
TG The Glimmerman 17 11m 4
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PPP Peggy Peggy Phew 20 11m 5
1.02
Q Quacker 14 11m 4
0
D Defenced 13 11m 3
0
K Kinny 15 11m 5
0
I Itbeckonstan 15 11m 4
1.02
RR Ramahana Road 14 11m 5
0
50c 50 Cents Worth 14 10m 5
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In Tim's Backyard 16 10m 4
0
In a Rush 18 8m 4
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I Bit My Tongue 17 8m 3
0
Leone 16 8m 2
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KE Kopu's Edge 15 10m 4
0
Chinese Ladder 13 10m 5
0
VG Virgo -4 4m
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Comments
climber53

Albert Terrace cimbing guide added, please download and use, please do not upload to climbing websites or data bases

Mon, 20/05/2019 - 17:36 Permalink
climber53

I did a guide to the crag several years ago, it took about five visits to make any sense of it, I climbed all the routes that were aparant and there were no real gaps. But if you disregard the routes bolted by Justin Hall ie. “I bit my tongue” which is as far as I can workout is “Leonie” and “in a rush” which is “Dirty Washing” it kind of makes sense, my interpretation started with “Small Boys” and ended at “Chinese Ladders”, 22 routes in total on the main face, there are routes on the opposite side and some further up the hill as well as some bouldering

Tue, 27/11/2018 - 21:44 Permalink
Lindsay Main

And Port Hills Climbing has 34. But Ross, no one moderates ClimbNZ and information is not being discarded. It relies on someone posting the climbs. The ones listed are known because they are all (retro)bolted, but no one has done the others except you and me, and many people don't have access to the information.

Tue, 27/11/2018 - 18:03 Permalink
cullenr

The list of routes above has only 14 climbs, but the diagram at the top of the page has 21 climbs. The article in Climber # 22 on Albert Terrace has information on 33 climbs. Why is information being discarded from climbnz?

Tue, 27/11/2018 - 10:25 Permalink
Files
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This is the original route guide from Ross Cullen who put in the original routes. 1997
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Albert Terrace Rev A.pdf
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Attribution
Edited from information written by Ross Cullen and originally hosted on the web by John Davis. Guidebook produced and added by Tony Burnell
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