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Cwag W

Type
Altitude
300m
Part of

This is the large orange lichen-covered cliff above the path 50m west of Crag X.
A band of poor rock low down corrupt the otherwise good solid rock with adventurous climbing and at over twenty metres, the routes are of reasonable length. There are now top belay bolts.
The short steep wall left of Gorgeous Groove will produce a couple of problems which will be low on pro.
There has been a number of climbs described below, some have disappeared in the earthquakes.
Allan Hill and friends put in trad routes in the late 90s, since then the crag has been abandoned, currently the crag is getting modernised, with routes that carry on through the the length of the crag.

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Walktime
10 mins
Aspect
South
Lat/lon
POINT (172.733643 -43.590556)
Topo50
BX24 785 736
Access

Approaches
The simplest approach is from the Summit Road at the Major Hornbrook Track, as for Lyttelton Rock, and walking along the bluffs track. However this is quite long. The fastest approach is to park on the Summit Road about at the macrocarpa trees and walk south across Richmond Hill Farm, Southwards along the vehicle track to the gun implacements, go to the right hand end (west) and pick up and follow, the track that drops downwards over the crest of the ridge, (towards Lyttleton Rock).

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Places

Type Name
Sector Crag V

Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
Gnarly Stools 16
0
Three Blind Mice 19
0
PJ Peanut Butter & Jam 19 25m 6
0
RH Right Hexit 19 25m 3
0
WW Welease Woderiwick 22 25m 8
1.02
PL Plum Line 21 25m 7
2.01
FC Flying Circus 22 25m 7
2.01
Qk Quaker 22
2.01
PB Peaky Blinders Orders 18 25m 8
0
HB Heavy Boson 20 25m 5
0
Sc Scorpion 18 25m
0
Gg Gwabingo 18 18m 4
0
OP Orange Peel 16
0
FGD I fart in your genewal diwection 15 20m 7
0
CM Coconuts Migwation 16 20m 8
0
Flamin’ Glory 15
0
No Future 16 22m
0
Storeman Norman 20
1.02
Death By Apathy 19
0
Gorgeous Groove
0

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Comments
cragrat

Less of it fell down than I expected. Good to see you tying it together with bolts Grubbie

Sun, 04/11/2018 - 06:21 Permalink
Attribution
Lindsay Main, Allan Hill (guide that has surfaced after nearly 20 years.)
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