Place info
Little Babylon
(38 routes)
pdf guide can be purchased and downloaded from http://alpineclub.org.nz/product/cleddau-valley-cragging
- West
Aspect
pdf guide can be purchased and downloaded from http://alpineclub.org.nz/product/cleddau-valley-cragging
| Reference | Name | Grade | Quality | Length | Comments | Actions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
24
|
|
||||||||||
|
Left of Upskirt Dreams. Owen Davies Feb 2013 |
|||||||||||
|
26
|
|
||||||||||
|
Far left of crag. Traverse in from left and climb behind the waterfall. Zdenek Racuk |
|||||||||||
|
25 ,23
|
|
20m
|
|||||||||
Troy Mattingley, Thomas Adamson, Jon Sedon, 2007 |
|||||||||||
|
25
|
|
25m
|
|||||||||
|
Climb the long face to the cave. Brooke Sandahl Bruce Dowrick, 2007 |
|||||||||||
|
21
|
|
9m
|
4
 |
||||||||
|
Nice sequencey climbing with hard last move to jug. Erin Stewart 2014 |
|||||||||||
|
23 ,27
|
|
22m
|
|||||||||
Al Ritchie 2007.Derek Thatcher 2008. |
|||||||||||
|
23 ,25
|
|
24m
|
|||||||||
Jon Sedon, Max Farr 2007 |
|||||||||||
|
27
|
|
30m
|
|||||||||
|
Climb first pitch of Rua Tahi and the head off rightwards up the hanging slab to the top of Tantalus. Derek Thatcher 2013 |
|||||||||||
|
28
|
|
30m
|
|||||||||
|
The hard version of Traverse of the Gods. After first pitch of RT climb hard boulder at top of Thor's Hammer. Derek Thatcher, 2013. |
|||||||||||
|
35
|
|
||||||||||
|
34
|
|
18m
|
9
|
||||||||
|
Same start as Xerxes, after crux do hard boulder problem. Project |
|||||||||||
|
30
|
|
20m
|
10
|
||||||||
|
Climb the diagonal line. Power endurance. Derek Thatcher, 2008. |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
9
|
|||||||||
|
Bruce Dowrick |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
18m
|
|||||||||
|
Start up No Country and cross into top of Thor's Hammer. Jon Sedon, 2008 |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
18m
|
9
|
||||||||
|
Powerful climbing on big holds. Matt Evrard |
|||||||||||
|
33
|
|
30m
|
17
|
||||||||
|
Climb Hercules and rest then up headwall through bulges to the left of Xena. Derek Thatcher, 2013 |
|||||||||||
|
33
|
|
30m
|
16
|
||||||||
|
Climb Hercules then straight up through the big roof.
Equipped by Derek Thatcher. Chris Muench, 2008 |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
30m
|
|||||||||
|
A long journey. Thomas Adamson, 2008 |
|||||||||||
|
35
|
|
30m
|
|||||||||
|
One of the first lines bolted. Start up ITP to very hard boulder and dyno, then do crux of Xena. Project |
|||||||||||
|
24
|
|
18m
|
|||||||||
|
Up then traverse left. Tom Hoyle, 2007.FFA Thomas Adamson 2007. |
|||||||||||
|
26
|
|
18m
|
|||||||||
|
Start up ITP and link into Jugular. Kester Brown, 2008. |
|||||||||||
|
25
|
|
18m
|
|||||||||
|
Up the Jugs to single ring. Better to finish at Moses anchor. Thomas Adamson, 2007.FFA Max Far, 2007. |
|||||||||||
|
27 ,30
|
|
26m
|
2
|
||||||||
Jon Sedon, 2007 |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
||||||||||
|
Moses and link in Giving Tree. Mayan Smith-Gobat, 2008 |
|||||||||||
|
31
|
|
25m
|
|||||||||
|
Climb up to left side of prow via a good rest. Thomas Adamson, 2007.FFA Mayan Smith-Gobat, 2008. |
|||||||||||
|
33
|
|
||||||||||
|
Derek Thatcher |
|||||||||||
|
30
|
|
23m
|
|||||||||
|
Thomas Adamson, 2007.FFA Derek Thatcher, 2007. |
|||||||||||
|
32
|
|
27m
|
|||||||||
|
Extension to Cyrus. Alright rest at Cyrus anchor then fingery V10. Derek Thatcher, 2009. |
|||||||||||
|
32
|
|
25m
|
|||||||||
|
Climb through the red streak. Derek Thatcher, 2009. |
|||||||||||
|
29
|
|
||||||||||
|
Bruce Dowrick, 2007.FFA Jonathan Clearwater, 2008. |
|||||||||||
|
27
|
|
||||||||||
|
Bruce Dowrick, 2007. |
|||||||||||
|
28
|
|
||||||||||
|
Jon Sedon, 2007. |
|||||||||||
|
28
|
|
||||||||||
|
Climb multiple bulge features just right of Hellboy. Zac Orme |
|||||||||||
|
26
|
|
||||||||||
|
Bruce Dowrick, 2012. |
|||||||||||
|
26
|
|
||||||||||
|
Jon Sedon, 2012. |
|||||||||||
Places
| Actions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wall | Top Cave (3 routes) |
Comments
if only there was a colour coded route topo to gaze and wonder upon climbing all the amazing routes this crag has to offer....