A crag of long, highly featured low-mid grade sport routes, on a conglomerate of rounded granite holds & knobs in a (relatively) strong sandstone matrix. Very funky rock, sporting jugs, slabs and slopers.
Take the Lake Hauroko Lookout track to it's top. From the wharf at the bottom, and when 15mins from the top, a steep thumb shaped plug of rock is obvious sticking out of the forest; this is The Anemometer, with current routes on the West face. From the Hauroko Lookout (The track is incorrectly marked on NZ Topo maps; the lookout is at point .556), it's another 10mins. An obvious game trail leads horizontally West across a treed ridge, until becoming vague as the ridge broadens, when almost at the crag. Follow you nose and pink flagging another 80m along the broad ridge, then another 80m down left to the crag, visible through the trees. Routes start from the saddle where you arrive, and on the West side. A treed gully leads down the side of the cliff; pay attention to your left for faint trails and handlines to the individual routes. Using a GPS map and the crag co-ordinates; and/or the map screenshot attached may be helpful.
Routes
Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Operations |
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Lady of the Lake | 15 | 25m | 1 | |||
Storm Warning | 16 | 20m | 10 | |||
Ultrasonic | 18 | 27m | 10 | |||
Beaufort Nine | 19 | 45m | 15 | |||
Haunted by Waters | 20 | 50m | 16 | |||
Urupa | 19 | 3 |