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
Routes
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| Secret Covenant of Marriage, 26 | 26 | 2 |
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Lh-side of wall |
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| S& | S&Slap and Tickle, 21 | 21 | 2 |
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Climb the slabby arete. |
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| Love Buckets, 12 | 12 | 3 |
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Climb the slab with massive buckets in it. |
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| TD | TDThe Downtrodden, 22 | 22 | 3 |
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Climb the L leaning ramp onto a crack. |
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| ST | STShout to the Top, 17 | 17 | 5 |
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Climb the arete. |
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| SU | SUSlip Up, 20 | 20 | 3 |
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Climb up via L-wards to gain the arete. |
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| General Ledger, 16 | 16 | 2 |
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Start on the right. Move L-wards to finish through the hole. |
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| JS | JSJames' Slab | 0m | 1 |
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Slab Route |
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| The Black Vegetable, 25 | 25 | 2 |
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Climb through 2 scoops. |
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| Second Floor, 24 | 24 | 2 |
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Smear climbing through and over the lip and beyond. |
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| Mung Bean, 23 | 23 | 2 |
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Climb through the scoop, and over the lip. |
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| Fraudulent Dreams of Teenage Appetite, 24 | 24 | 1 |
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Bridgeing and slopers. |
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| Shriekback, 18 | 18 | 3 |
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Start on right-hand side of the slab, move leftwards under the overhang to belay in the hollow.
Keep moving leftwards to the rap station |
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| Greenpiece, 17 | 17 | ||||||
Climb large crack then move R-wards into another crack. |
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| MF | MFMy Feet Are My Friends, 26 | 26 | 5 |
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Climb the groove. |
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| PG | PGPathetic Gropes, 24 | 24 | 2 |
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Climb L-wards up a ramp, then crank around the arete and onto the top. |
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| Heretic, 20 | 20 | ||||||
Climb crack. Hard start. |
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| I'm the Boss, 26 | 26 | 3 |
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Climb the wall on small edges. |
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| KR | KRKing of the Road, 24 | 24 | 1 |
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Short arete |
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| BL | BLBig Ling, 16 | 16 | 2 |
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| Little Ling, 18 | 18 | 4 |
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| Turkey Teeth, 20 | 20 | 2 |
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Starts up a groove to finish up the wall. |
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| LC | LCLimestone Cowboy, 21 | 21 | 1 |
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Climb the crack until it runs out and finish off on the face. |
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| Hi | HiHoudini, 28 | 28 | 3 |
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Traverse L-wards then upwards on pockets. |
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| MP | MPMac's Plank, 20 | 20 | 8 |
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Start off the pedestal, onto the boulder the traverse L-wards and upwards with the help of monos. |
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| The 5.10d Off-width, 21 | 21 | ||||||
Diagonal seam capped with a cracked boulder |
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| The Graze, 18 | 18 | 2 |
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Slab route |
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| PD | PDPig Dog, 25 | 25 | 1 |
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Startb on pile, then traverse L-wards across pockets then up. |
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| Sqaushed Gecko, 17 | 17 | ||||||
A short off-width/ crack. |
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| Bloozin', 23 | 23 | 2 |
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Start up SG. Travrese R-wards after the chockstones. |
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| VG | VGVicious Games, 25 | 25 | 3 |
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Climb thin yellow wall, via R-wards onto finishing slab. |
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| DS | DSDr Squat, 22 | 22 | 2 |
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Start up the slab and move through spaced pockets and face climbing. |
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| Unbearable Lightness, 16 | 16 | 2 |
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Boulder start then a step up. |
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| The Day the World Stood Still, V6 | V6 | ||||||
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. |
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| MB | MBMax Blanck, 21 | 21 | 2 |
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Start up crack from L, and finish off the slab above the break. |
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| Expressway Pile Up, 21 | 21 | ||||||
Opposite Hg Climb through short line of pocks, then on to slab, and finishing up laybacking a crack. Bolts Removed! |
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| EV | EVEl Vista, 13 | 13 | 3 |
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Climb the arete. |
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| BP | BPBonza Pipeline, 24 | 24 | 4 |
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On the KitD boulder. Climb the groove in the middle of the wall |
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| Schrodinger, 25 | 25 | 4 |
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Climb the thin face to the L of the arete |
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| Hg | HgHeisenberg, 24 | 24 | 4 |
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Climb the shallow groove to the belay ledge.
Climb pocketed arete. |
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| Put up your Dukes, 28 | 28 | 3 |
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Glued chipped drilled
Climb the wall to the right of Heisenberg on drilled holds |
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| HB | HBHunters Bar, 24 | 24 | 2 |
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Climb the yellow face, exit r-wards after clipping the 2nd bolt. |
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| NE | NENether Edge, 21 | 21 | 2 |
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Climb the arete on the NW edge of the boulder. |
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| Offwidth Problem, 16 | 16 | 10m | |||||
On the south side of the narrow gully behind Hunters Bar. |
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| CC | CCChit Chat, 20 | 20 | 1 |
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The left exit from a big scoop |
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| Yakkity Yak, 22 | 22 | 1 |
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The right exit from the big scoop |
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| TA | TAToxic Avenger, 25 | 25 | 2 |
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10m left of Moment of Greed. Traverse rightwards into the climb and ascend the weakness. |
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| MG | MGMoment of Greed, 29 | 29 | 2 |
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The left-hand side of the gently overhanging yellow wall. Faces west. |
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| SH | SHSuicide by Hallucination, 26 | 26 | 2 |
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Right-hand side of the slightly overhung yellow wall, facing west. |
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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!