Aptly named, the Colosseum is the gargantuan rock face that looms over the flax field as you drive up the road. Aside from immaculate rock, the crag also provides an awesome bivy site complete with its own reliable spring if you're looking to spend a few days up the creek. Full of potential, but with relatively few routes, The Colosseum is the mid-20's developers dream.
Follow the track from the Arboretum parking (gravel pullout 4.7km from SH6 with a rock cairn). Follow the vague track through long grass and "the mangroves" to the sandy (and hopefully dry) riverbed. Walk downriver for several hundred metres past the ever-changing mess of logs where a sign stating "Fun Climbing" hung between two trees indicates the start of a marked track. When you reach a junction, turn right for the trail marked "2 Towers & Colosseum". The trail splits again 100m further on, take the right fork (signposted "Colosseum") and follow this marked trail for 10 minutes along the base of the cliff until you reach a small bivy site. The climbs start 50m right of here.
Routes
| Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Operations |
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| 1 | Partial Project | 23 |
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| 2 | Nelly's Nut | 21 | 35m | 7 |
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| 3 | Hanging by a Thread | 18 | 20m | 7 |
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| 4 | How's Your French | 23 | 75m | 12 |
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| 5 | Pretty Little Hate Machine | 20 | 28m | 4 |