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Jane Fonda Workout Wall

Type
Altitude
150m
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The best crag on the Port Hills (for climbs in the grade 21–26 range.) Being perched on a steep hillside above Lyttelton Harbour adds to the crag's lovely atmosphere. The crag gets little sun, so is great in summer, especially on those hot nor'west days. Sheltered from northerly and westerley winds.
The crag has a somewhat unfair reputation for bold climbs. About half the routes are very friendly clip-ups. Some of the routes require you to perform moves above a bolt, but the climbs are never really dangerous. There are a couple of trad routes, and a couple of mixed routes, for which the gear is always adequate to good.
The sporadic and disjointed nature of the route development here (combined with the 2011 earthquake) has led to a bunch of link-ups, alternative starts, filler-routes, collapsed features, and generally confusing guide information. This page seeks to provide clear descriptions of the commonly climbed, and logical lines (as secondary to being a historical record. The existing print guides provide a good history of the crag).
The numbered routes are the major (best) lines.

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Walktime
10-15 min
Aspect
South
Lat/lon
POINT (172.7645577 -43.59490743)
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BX24 810 731
Access

ACCESS UPDATE, 23 APRIL 2013
The crag is now officially open with the City Council's blessing.
This crag is on the Lyttelton Harbour side of the hills, above Livingstone Bay. Drive to Evans Pass on the Summit Road, and drive 3km towards Godley Head. Park in a layby directly above Taylor's Mistake on the Lyttelton side, next to the two large watertanks, use the stile that accesses the Crater Rim Walkway, then follow a sheep track horizontally westward towards Lyttelton above a couple of rocky spurs until you glimpse the profile of the Wall – an awesome sight! Continue on the track around the top of a broad gully, then drop down the gulley and traverse across to the bottom of the wall.

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Places

Type Name
Sector The Left Wall
Sector The West Wall

Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
Jane Fonda from Behind 15
0
The Penetrator 21 16m 2
1.02
Resurrection 20 25m 8
1.02
1 Meat Injection 20 25m 4
1.02
2 Polish The Cucumber 19 28m 3
2.01
3 Debauchery 18 25m
2.01
4 Purity Of Essence 21 30m
2.01
5 Whacking Moles 21 25m 8
2.01
6 Wacking Wendy 22 26m 9
2.01
7 Half Fact, Half Friction 22 26m 4
2.01
8 Cleansing The Stone 22 28m 5
2.01
9 Joint Enterprise 27 29m 11
3
10 Video Nasty 22 25m 4
3
11 Lard of the Thighs 25 25m 6
2.01
12 Armitage Shanks 23 25m 5
2.01
13 Flock To The Rock 27 20m 5
3
14 Feminine Positions 22 17m 4
1.02
15 Activated Sludge 23 13m 2
1.02
16 L'Actic Ingredient 22 13m 3
1.02
Day Tripper 20 6
0
17 Spliffhanger 14 12m 3
0
The Big Trip 20 6
0
Snotgobbler's Revenge 23 26m 4
0
Cinder Path 24 28m 7
0
The Artful Dodger 20 30m 10
2.01
Triple Point 26 18m 6
0
Dodger Direct 25
0
18 Melting Point 25 30m 12
3
19 Tantra 26 28m 11
3
The Biscuit Factory 24 35m 10
0
While You're Down There 14 35m
0
Out of the Blue 13
0
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