Showing all 24 ascents.
Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | Climber | |||
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Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Yellowwood | |||||||
The Chess Pieces The Castle | |||||||
19 Easy |
★★★ White On The Right
- with
Megan, Kevin Dingle
2
18
48
lead by
Kevin Dingle
3
17
42
lead by
Kevin Dingle
5
15
50
lead by
Megan
| 200m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Crux pitch has to be up there with the best. A proper trad outing.
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Thu 21st Mar 2024 - Yellowwood | |||||||
The Chess Pieces The Castle | |||||||
18 |
★★★ Castle Corner
- with
Kenny the Veggie
2
15
45
lead by
Kenny the Veggie
Felt harder than P2
4
15
50
lead by
Kenny the Veggie
| 210m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Excellent route, better than 3 star in the book.
The pitches seem to get better and better. It is an improbable line.
The crux pitch gets one thinking.
2nd last pitch has to be one of the best for the grade anywhere. 50m of joy.
Highly recommended
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Sat 17th Feb 2024 - Yellowwood | |||||||
The Chess Pieces The Castle | |||||||
19 |
★★★ No More Bells
- with
Cormac Tooze
| 210m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Follows a fantastic natural line on bomber rock. Mostly great gear except some delicate moves at the end of p2 with sparse pro. One of the best routes I have done.
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20 |
★★★ No More Bells
- with
Fernand Sieber
3
18
25
lead by
Cormac Tooze
Nice to lead this one this time, the last time I was glad to not lead it. But I've come some ways.
5
19
45
lead by
Cormac Tooze
Lead this one this time. Has to be up there with the best pitches of climbing. | 210m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Has to be one of the best 19's in the country,
Used the Timerity rap.
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Sun 29th Oct 2023 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 Hard | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge- Left Variation - with RIO | 160m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Getting lost, opening new lines!
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Tue 17th Oct 2023 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge - with Ollie Rattue | 150m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
16-hour quest AKA your average Tuesday. I think we were a little delirious on the top of the mountain because at one point Coach just started soloing stuff.
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16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge - with Matthew Robinson | 150m | |||||
Cool historic route. We took a fun alpine approach with a few short roped sections and a rap to get to the start of the climb. Wonder how low down the ridge you could start? Lost time finding Timerity rap. Know Yellowwood a bit better after this long day out on the hill.
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Mon 24th Oct 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Tea Time Buttress | |||||||
21 |
★★★ Good Time
- with
Bryant, Max
2
17
20m
lead by
Bryant
4
21
10m
lead by
Bryant
| 180m | |||||
The best trad route I have climbed to date. A true mega classic
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Sat 1st Oct 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Timerity Buttress | |||||||
19 | ★★★ Timerity - with steve cummane | 140m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sat 1st Oct 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Divine Time Buttress | |||||||
19 |
★★ Divine Time
- with
Steven cummane
1
19
55m
lead by
Steven cummane
3
19
25m
lead by
Steven cummane
4
19
50m
lead by
Steven cummane
| 190m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 12th Jun 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Yellowwood Amphitheatre | |||||||
28 | ★★★ Newborn | 18 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sent every pitch, amazing route. Crux maybe more like 29?
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Thu 14th Apr 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge (Smallblaar Ridge) - with Willem le Roux, Charles Edelstein | 150m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
to halfway ledge to gain C/W project
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Mon 4th Oct 2021 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge - with Daniel | 150m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
A great route in an incredible setting. Finding the beginning of the route is tricky, ended up pitching some exposed scrambling and only started on the route proper at 11 despite leaving the cars much earlier.
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Sun 18th Apr 2021 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Lekker Time Buttress | |||||||
17 | ★ Lekker Time - with Simon | 230m | |||||
Good intro to Yellowwood, felt like a very relaxing day. 1 hour 45 walk in, 5 hours 18 mins on route. Missed the 4.5 to 5 hours target time. Topped out at same time as Lise, Josh and Josh on Divine time and abseiled down together. Hot day, amazing place.
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Thu 15th Apr 2021 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Yellowwood Amphitheatre | |||||||
23 | ★★★ Fantastic Time - with Michael Dom, Aiden Roberts | 250m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Was like a 10 year anniversary of the first ascent. Still a full on challenge in the heat
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Sun 7th Mar 2021 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Lekker Time Buttress | |||||||
17 | ★ Lekker Time | 230m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
2019 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge (Smallblaar Ridge) - with Charles Edelstein, Richard Halsey | 150m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Mon 30th Oct 2017 - Yellowwood | |||||||
The Chess Pieces The Castle | |||||||
20 19 | ★★★ No More Bells - with Peter | 210m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sun 5th Mar 2017 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Yellowwood Amphitheatre | |||||||
23 | ★★★ Fantastic Time | 250m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Trad
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Sat 4th Feb 2017 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Fine Time Buttress | |||||||
20 | ★★★ Leisure Time | 240m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Trad
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Sun 10th Mar 2013 - Yellowwood | |||||||
The Chess Pieces The Castle | |||||||
19 |
★★★ No More Bells
- with
Malcolm Gowans, amrei von hase
| 210m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Take a double rack, I ran out of 17 extenders on one of the 3 x 45m pitches P1 is a warm-up; P2 is serious, ran it out at top, a fall would have been dire, small holds, no time for gear, but slabby. High end climbing some of the best ever. P3 gives you a taste of the proper crack climbing to come. P4 has a wild start, that gives you a mental warmup, further up when you get into the slot it tests your metal!; sandbag pitch, it felt harder than the grade-20 pitches's of 'Roulette'. Prob the best pitch of climbing I have ever climbed to date, very very wild. P5 is the best crack climbing I have ever experienced, long bomber hand jams. Top out in very high mountains, difficult to believe only 1 hr drive from Cape Town.
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Fri 21st Jan 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Smalblaar Ridge | |||||||
16 | ★★★ Smalblaar Ridge (Smallblaar Ridge) - with Peter | 150m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 21st Jan 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Lekker Time Buttress | |||||||
17 | ★ Lekker Time - with A. Scott | 230m | Average | ||||
Fri 21st Jan 2022 - Yellowwood | |||||||
Divine Time Buttress | |||||||
19 | ★★ Divine Time - with Sarel Jansen van Rensburg | 190m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
3rd time lucky.
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