Boaty McBoat Face

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Title

Grade

Length

Quality

Bolts

Gone

Natural pro

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1

Big Fish

26,25,24,28,25,27,19

116m

Starts at a black fixed line at sea level. Follow this is a single ring where the route starts. The first pitch suffers from seepage early in the morning. Best to climb and fix this in the afternoon and climb the rest the next day or rap in from the track. Single rack to #2 with doubles in 0.3-0.5. Small to medium wires only. Handy to have a tag line and haul a small pack. Too hard to climb with a pack on for most.

#	Ewbank	Length	Trad
1	26	0m	No
	P1: 26 30m - Technical black wall with some powerful moves. Out of character from the rest of the route. All bolts
2	25	25m	Yes
	P2: 25 25m - Fishing tales - up face to crack and through overlap. Hard technical climbing up rightwards traverse. Bolts and small to medium gear.
3	24	25m	Yes
	P3: 24 25m - Seven gills - burly through overlap and then very enjoyable face climbing on great holds. Single rack and bolts
4	28	8m	Yes
	P4: 28 8m - Snickers Roof - crux boulder leads to steep pulls on good holds. Bolted to A0. At the end place a cam up in the crack to the left to protect the second into the belay. 1x 0.75 ,1 and bolts
5	25	30m	Yes
	P5: 25 30m - "5.9 pitch"- up hand/finger crack to steep, very exciting pulling over the bulge. Head back left on moderate ground to belay on comfy ledge. Take all the gear, some bolts
6	27	20m	No
	P6: 27 20m - Up and right on good holds. Pitch steepens to an outrageous crux (same last 10m as Freediver). Wave to the spectators. (Direct finish has not been freed.) all bolts
7	19	8m	No
	Short pitch to top of wall. 2 bolts If walking off head right across ledge to bush. Track heads off right and then up to join the main decent track.

Llewellyn Murdoch, Bruce Dowrick and Jon Sedon Aug 2020

2

Freediver

27,25,24,26,26,27,19

158m

42

Start at the Black fixed rope at sea level. Traverse under the first pitch of "Big Fish" and all the way right to the hanging bush ledge. two bolts mark the start of the route. Recommend clipping in as ledge is questionable and start of first pitch is hard. 6 draws, 6 extendable draws & 2 60m ropes. Great Rock, technical sequences and Outrageous exposure.

#	Ewbank	Length	Bolts	Trad
1	27	30m	7	No
	Pitch 1: 27, weave up the streaked wall past two technical cruxes and finish out right on "Manu Ledge'
2	25	30m	8	No
	Pitch 2: 25, Left and up short groove to tricky crux. then WAY out left on jugs to pod, then back right on more jugs. Take lots of long runners. Belay on big slab two bolts
3	24	20m	7	No
	Pitch 3: 24, down right of belay start the spooky ramp moving back to the arete, finish with pumpy steep climbing to hanging belay.
4	26	20m	6	No
	Pitch 4: 26, move left on massive jug rail, then up and right on moslty good holds but poor feet. ( the original variation goes straight up the arete now an open project and/or an easy A0 variation)
5	26	25m	6	No
	Pitch 5: Left of belay climbs roof through shallow groove. Back right at the lip and then up on big jugs to Exceptional belay ledge....Pumpy
6	27	25m	6	No
	Pitch 6: Many difficult sections with good shakes in between lead to the coup de grâce, an overhanging prow right at the top of the wall. pumpy and full on.
7	19	8m	2	No
	Short pitch straight up to ledge. If walking off walk right and belay of tree once on flat ground. Track traverses from here right and then up to join the main descent track.

Bruce Dowrick, Jon Sedon & Llewellyn Murdoch May 2021

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