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Goat Cove

(21 routes)

Includes Orange Wall & Goat Gully

Type: 
Wall
Aspect: 
West
Access: 

approached from the cemetery via a rough track which leads to Cod Rocks and The Platform. Another track branching left off this after 200m leads to the popular Bolt City Boulders, and by scrambling south along the coast, The Prow and Goat Cove.

Reference Title Grade Length Quality Bolts Gone Natural pro Edit link
The First Step 13 5m
0
The corner just R of the L arete of the Orange Wall.
Rick Harding '87
Better Late than Never 18 8m
1.02
Face route 5 m to R of TFS, perfect rock and pro.
Rick Harding '87
Roc's Egg 16 10m
0
Thin Crack, face and crack.
Rick Harding '87
Dolphin Dreams 16 25m
1.02
Prominent line near the R end of the Orange Wall. From L end of the cave climb the crack and go L to belay below the overhangs.
Paul Woperis '87
Jump 17
1.02
Climb the wall to the twin grooves above, with another short wall to the belay of DD.
Rick Harding '92
Sinbad the Sailor 15
0
Wanders about. Up DD for 5m traverse R 6m, up 10m, L 2m, & up Rend of short wall, Traverse L & belay as for DD.
Rick Harding '87
unnamed 17
0
Ascends Surge Wall (nth facing) directly below Rh side of sth access gully
Rick Harding '92
Dog's Breakfast 16 9m
0
2m r of unnamed route. Ascends vertically to just below ledge, then traverses R 1m, then onto ledge. Can be continued up boulder above.
Bruce White 92
No Fool Like an Old Fool 19 9m
2.01
The steep crack and L wall of the Boulder above with good jams and jugs.
Rick Harding '87
Safe Crack 14
0
Prominent gully crack.
Rick Harding, Nigel Williams '87
Crack a Jack 14
0
Crack R of SC.
Rick Harding '87
Buried at Sea 13
0
Next rack R
Rick Harding (solo) '87
Roaring Forties 13
0
3rd crack R
Rick Harding, S Stewart
Father and Son 17
0
Goat Gully East Wall. On the centre of the steep buttress at the downhill end of the gully.
Rick Harding '94
The writing's on the Wall 16
0
Just R of the descent crack, up the wall to a big ledge and R from the R hand end.
Rick Harding '93
I Hate Black Lingerie 17 6m
0
R of descent crack, up 4 m to a ledge, move L and finish up R hand corner.
Bruce White '93
Flight to Australia 16 9m
0
Tunnel Cove Seaward face of the Tunnel Cove's nth arete
Rick Harding '87
Porpoise with a Purpose 14 7m
0
First groove on the north Wall.
Sean McGrath '87
Groper 15 7m
0
Chimney groove.
Paul Woperis '87
Possums Progress 17
0
Small face in corner of cove.
Nigel Williams (solo) '87
Not the Full Quid 15
0
R side of the south wall, climb chimney and arete, left and up handcrack to the overhang.
Rick Harding '94