These slabs do not hold too many exciting options for winter climbing usually due to their lack of ice,
however being very compact the rock is excellent for climbing on a hot summers day. There are plenty of potential projects and unexplored terrain here.
On the ridge leading up to the summit of Single Cone you will find a small walled bivy. From the bivy follow a small ledge for 5m that overlooks the face. Here you will find the top of a bolted rappel line. This takes you to down to a point approximately 30m from the base of the face – directly above an obvious snow patch. Be careful on the second to last rap as its approx 61m. At some point, this will get fixed up but for now knot your ropes and be careful. The following two routes start here:
The lower tier of the ice flow is equipped with a number of double bolt anchors that can be used for top roping and to enable an abseil descent to be made with one 60m rope.
Access to the face is gained by hiking up to Wye Saddle, above Lake Alta, and then crossing the plateau below the east face of Single Cone to a low point at the base of the ridge running above the South Face. From here an obvious large gully provides easy access down to the base of the
face.
The face itself is trapezoidal in shape and varies in height from 150m at its eastern end, rising to nearly 300m below the summit of Single Cone. All of the climbs that top out on face have an easy walk off back across to Wye Saddle.
Note that in general the existing routes which have only been assigned a numeric rock climbing grade are yet to receive a winter ascent.
Routes
Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Operations |
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97 | Hundred Dollar Whore | M5 | ||||
98 | Alejandro El Bicho Le Gusta Sexo Duro | 350m | ||||
99 | Single Cone South Face | 17,M4 | ||||
100 | Only for Muppets | WI3 | ||||
101 | Touch Down | WI3 | 60m | |||
102 | Touch Down RHS | WI2 | ||||
Eclipse | WI2,M6 | 125m | ||||
103 | Project | |||||
Mixed ambition | WI3,M5 | |||||
104 | South Face Classic | WI3 | 300m | |||
105 | Littlewood Route | 18 | ||||
Barretts Route | 18 | |||||
106 | Got No Shoes | 17 | ||||
107 | Finnigan Dare | 18 | 250m | |||
108 | Project | |||||
109 | Project | |||||
110 | Uncle Al’s Retro Rack | 17 | ||||
111 | Blame the Rabbit | 18 | ||||
112 | Big Bouncing Boulders | 17 | ||||
113 | Easy Shanking | 18 | 170m | |||
4VLOLZ | ||||||
97a | Fifty Dollar F#ck | M5 |