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Telecom Tower

(103 routes)

The west facing crags on Telecom Tower form a long, continuous stretch of buttresses and gullies unfolds all the way along to Double Cone. Many short, easily accessible routes with a wide variety of difficulties, high exposure and great views down to Lake Wakatipu.

Type: 
Mountain
Altitude: 
2200m
Aspect: 
West
Access: 

A ledge system, known as Queen's Drive, runs under this face. To access Queen's Drive walk to the top of the Shadow Basin Chair lift from the Remarkables Ski-field carpark. Climb west to saddle above. From here, a rising traverse to south accesses the start of Queens Drive. Sections are described from left to right.

New Zealand map

Map, Topo

Lat/Lon: 
-45.062427250000, 168.802013400000
NZMS260: 
F41 795 633
Topo50: 
CC11 695 015
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Attribution: 
Material from "REMARKABLES ICE & MIXED FESTIVAL ICE & MIXED GUIDE," 2012.

Places

Type Title Link to edit content
Face (Alpine) First Buttress (4 routes)
Face (Alpine) Second Buttress (7 routes)
Face (Alpine) Afterglow Buttress (9 routes)
Face (Alpine) The Bolt Buttress (6 routes)
Face (Alpine) Saturday Morning Special (14 routes)
Face (Alpine) Los Indignados Wall (24 routes)
Face (Alpine) Red Wall (18 routes)
Face (Alpine) Clearances (5 routes)
Face (Alpine) The Notch (12 routes)
Face (Alpine) Searching for Sumo Buttress (4 routes)
UUID: 
8819b96b-fcd3-4e8a-a7c4-17f87e3f837a

Comments

Submitted by Alien on Sun, 30/06/2019 - 20:28

Coddiwomple M5 Telecom Tower has been cleaned of some loose rock and a few good cam placements have been unearthed. There are a couple of fixed pitons that fill in the gaps. It is now a well protected classic pitch that is as good as Friday's Fool, Fastest Indian, Pull Me a Pilsner etc. It protects well with cams. Take doubles from BD .75 -3

Submitted by s8piral on Thu, 30/08/2012 - 00:25

Material extracted from "REMARKABLES ICE & MIXED FESTIVAL
ICE & MIXED GUIDE," 2012. Edited and posted with permission.