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Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Bright Lights Purgatory Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | ★★ This Call is for You: It's Your Life Calling
Sit down start on the face, which faces the city. Traverse low to the right until you can break up the slopey rail on the face orientated towards Lions Head. FA: Steve Koehorst, 1997 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Bright Lights Below the Lights | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Unkown 1
FA: Steve Koehorst, 1997 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Bright Lights Under Below the Lights | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Like a Mini Big Boulder
Climb up below the little roof and TO over the roof | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Bright Lights Anarchy in the USA | |||||
FB:5B - C+ | Severance
Sit start on the lowest holds and climb up and then left on slab FA: Steve Koehorst, 2021 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Training Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Northern Exosure
Sitstart and climb straight through FA: S. Koehorst, 1999 | 3m | |||
FB:5B - C+ | Wrong Start
stand start to right of grafiti | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Schadenfreude Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | ★ Schadenfreude Warmup
Sitstart, climbing the left leaning arête to warmup. FA: S. Koehorst, 1998 | 3m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park Surprise Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5+ | Various 5s #2
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Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park Blackened Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Firestarter
climb up overhanging arete | ||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Careless Tourist
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Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park Low Seam Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B+ - C+ | ★★ Endless Potential vs. Indiscriminate Choices
Climb the steep section on the corner to the right of the low Seam. FA: Steve Koehorst, 1999 | 2m | |||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Camelthorn
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Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park City Vista Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | City Silhouette
Sitstart. Traverse the lip from L to R. FA: Steve Koehorst, 1996 | 3m | |||
{FB} 5B - C+ | City Straight Up
Sitstart. Follow the obvious seam and TO. FA: Steve Koehorst, 1994 | 3m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park Hamstrung Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Hamstrung
FA: Steve Koehorst, 1997 | ||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Middle Face
FA: Steve Koehorst, 1998 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain CBD Bouldering Deer Park Tree Boulder | |||||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Tree Time is at Three
Sitstart on small hold just right of the sloper on the arete. bump LH to the sloper and pull up to the sloper directly above for the TO. FA: S. Koehorst, 1997 | 3m | |||
{FB} 5B - C+ | Traverse on the Lip
Start as for Zep, but move right almost immediately to traverse around to the right, staying high above the final roof to TO. FA: S. Koehorst, 1998 | 4m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Cecilia Forest Boulder A | |||||
{FB} 5B+ - C+ | Warm up
Stand start and climb up to TO. | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Cecilia Forest Ike's Boulder | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | ★★ Huggy Bear
Sit-start with short rail and climb the crack feature. | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Cecilia Forest Follow the River Boulder | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Warm-up
Stand-start and climb the slab on the right. FA: Marijus Šmigelskis | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Constantia Nek Forest Boulder E | |||||
{FB} 5+ | ★★ Wokeness
SS in the thin crack and move up to the jug to TO. FA: Wilkinson | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Fernwood Precipice | |||||
23 | ★★★ Fernwood for the People
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25m
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22
30m
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15m
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35m
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FA: Hilton Davies & Tienie Versfeld, 30 Jan 2021 | 260m, 10 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Higgovale Quarry The Polling Booth | |||||
23 | ★★ Cast Your Stompie Direct
Linkup: Cast Your Vote into Stompie Direct FA: Charles Hopkins, 20 Jan 2021 | ||||
23 | ★★ Cast Your Vote
this is a chipped route and will not be rebolted FA: N. Matthews & G. Hattingh | 5 | |||
23 | ★ Jiggery Pokkery
No anchors FA: N. Matthews & G. Hattingh | 7 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Higgovale Quarry The Higgo Fridge | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Unknown 3
Climb the face to the right of Unknown 2 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Ledges Spring Ledge | |||||
23 | Slot Machine
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23
25m
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21
25m
Starts right of 'Coin de Rocher' The start of the first pitch is a tad bold. Technically more like grade 22, but fairly intimidating. The second pitch also starts off in a fiesty manner.
FA: Richard Halsey & M. Thilo FFA: Richard Halsey & S. Jack., Oct 2015 | 50m, 2 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Llandudno Beach SECTOR-1 C: Conspicuous Consumption | |||||
{FB} 5C+ | Klipkop
Start as for 'Naatkop', this time following a crack branching up RIGHT. | ||||
FB:5C+ | Project
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Cape Town Table Mountain Llandudno Beach SECTOR-1 AB: Muscle Beach | |||||
23 | ★★ Sakkies Nightmare
OLD BOLTS & HANDMADE HANGERS=DANGEROUS FA: M. Seegers & D. Margetts, 1990 | 1 | |||
23 | ★★ 30 Something
OLD BOLTS & HANDMADE HANGERS=DANGEROUS FA: Trevor Apollis, 1990 | 2 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Llandudno Beach SECTOR-2 O: Hand of Fate | |||||
{FB} 5B+ - C+ | Circus Freaks
Sit-start on the lowest rail and move straight up on jugs. FA: S. Noy, 2007 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Llandudno Beach SECTOR-2 Crystal Clear Boulder | |||||
24 | Summertime
3 Bolts (old bolts). FA: John Alexander, 1990 | 3 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Lower Buttresses Arrow Buttress | |||||
23 | Capital Offence
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20m
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20m
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20m
FA: T. Versfeld, C. Standing, R. Suter & Hilton Davies, 4 Nov 2017 | 60m, 3 | |||
23 | ★★★ Shot to the Heart
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22
17m
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23
30m
Scramble up about 30m to an obvious ledge that cuts across most of the face (or climb the first pitch of William Tell to gain the ledge). Follow the ledge out right until you see a cairn marking the start of the route. The route starts up an undercut and overhanging face with many sidepulls and good edges. A pumpy start.
FA: L. Rust & T. Versfeld, 2001 | 47m, 2 | |||
23 | ★★★ Moonlight Direct
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30m
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10m
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30m
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20m
FA: Hilton Davies & B. Daniel, 2010 | 90m, 4 | |||
23 | Manoeuvres by Sunlight
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15m
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25m
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30m
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15m
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Pitches 1-3 as for Manoeuvres by Moonlight. FA: G. Paterson-Jones & A. Davies, 13 Oct 2016 | 85m, 5 | |||
23 | ★★★ Moonage Daydream
| 70m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Lower Buttresses Venster Buttress | |||||
23 | Passage to India
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12m
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18m
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18m
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10m
FA: K. Hayden & Hilton Davies, 4 Nov 2016 | 58m, 4 | |||
23 | The Goa Squeezer
Composite route. FA: Richard Halsey & F. Walters, Oct 2018 | ||||
23 | Mumbai Express
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25m
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25m
FA: G. Paterson-Jones & Hilton Davies, 1 Dec 2016 | 50m, 2 | |||
24 | ★★★ Fun Factory
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30m
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20m
FA: Richard Halsey & J. Hajos, 2011 FFA: Richard Halsey & J. Smith, 2012 | 50m, 2 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Maverick Crag | |||||
23 | ★★★ No Country For Old Men
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18
20m
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25m
FA: N. Abrahams, T. Versfeld & D. Hugo, 2013 | 45m, 2 | |||
23 | ★★★ Maverick
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22
40m
2
23
10m
FA: N. Abrahams & T. Versfeld, 2013 | 50m, 2 | |||
24 | ★★★ Unforgiven
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22
20m
2
24
20m
FA: N. Abrahams & T. Versfeld, 2013 | 40m, 2 | |||
23 | ★★★ Walk the Line
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23
20m
2
20
20m
FA: 2013 | 40m, 2 | |||
23 | ★★★ Jokerman
FA: N Abrahams & T. Versfeld, 2013 | 30m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Deadwood | |||||
FB:5A - C+ | ★ Accidentally Overlooked
SS climb arete, keep going L to the same TO as for Hip Hip Chin Chin | ||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Another Winner | ||||
FB:5C+ | ★★ Compression Session (Variation 2)
Start as for Accidentally Overlooked and top out as for Compression Session. Don't use any of the holds to the right of the arete - only the good sloper to the left of the big jug is in). | ||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Non-portable Mantle
Sit start and mantle over the rock. FA: Brendan Kuhnert, 2023 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Big Rock Boulder B | |||||
FB:5A - C+ | B1
SS and climb the crimps to TO. | ||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | B2
Stand start with RH and LH on obvious holds and move up and R using the layaway to TO. | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Pandemic Boulder | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | You’re On Mute
Stand start with good hold on the left and climb the arete into a flaky crack. FA: Guy Holwill, 2021 | ||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Tree Dab
Sit start, up arête to jug next to tree, then top out without dabbing the tree. FA: Guy Holwill, 2021 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Window Gorge Boulder | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | 1
Stand and climb the sloping arete to TO as for 2. | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Jungle Gym Hibernate Before You Detonate | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Hibernate Before You Detonate
Sit-start with left hand on a good incut and right hand on an edge, right hand to a good ledge on the lip, LH to the lip and head up left. Big jug rail above the lip on the right is off. FA: Stewart Noy, 2007 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Jungle Gym Quality Time | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Aeneid
Sit-start with right hand on a good sidepull and left hand close by on an edge, left hand to an incut edge, right hand to a small incut rail and top-out direct. FA: Stewart Noy, 2007 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Jungle Gym Jungle Gym | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Nimbus
Stand start with left hand up on a square ledge and top-out direct. FA: Stewart Noy, 2007 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Jungle Gym Shake Your Foundations | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Thorn In My Side
Sit-start with left hand on a diagonal edge and right hand on a diagonal sidepull, left hand to the slopey arête, move up to a slopey crimp sidepull for right hand and top-out direct. FA: Stewart Noy, 2007 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest The Scree Die Mot en die Kers | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Die Mot en die Kers
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Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest The Scree | |||||
{FB} 5+ | Branches
FA: Wilkinson | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Broken Boulder | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Wishful Thinking
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Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Moss Master | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Moss Master
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Cape Town Table Mountain Newlands Forest Hillywood | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Stupid Girls
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Cape Town Table Mountain Nursery Buttress | |||||
24 | Buccaneer Direct
Do buccaneer but at the rightward traverse blast strait up through big roof on jugs | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain Prowling Buttress | |||||
24 | ★★★ Orion
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Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles Barrier Buttress | |||||
23 | ★★★ Café Caprice
A great line, probably the best at the crag. Head up and right under the first small overlap. Continue diagonally right to a jam crack through a small roof. Pull past two more rails and then right to exit onto the ledge. FA: S. Nightingale & Richard Halsey, Jul 2018 | ||||
24 | ★★★ Snow Leopard
Big brother to Café Caprice, wingspan will help for the final wild moves. Head up and right under the first small overlap. Pull up and hand traverse right, then up and further right to a wide, bottomless corner. Pull up into this and hand rail right to a final long pull through the roof and up to the ledge. FA: Richard Halsey, Aug 2018 | ||||
23 | ★★★ Tarsier and Tourettes
A steep route out of the centre of the cave. Starts on a boulder in the middle of the cave. Pull up and move left until able to head straight up to the roof. Traverse left and finish up Café Caprice. FA: Richard Halsey, Aug 2018 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles Spring Buttress | |||||
23 | ★★ The Gates
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20m
Start: the route starts on the left end of the ledge and is marked by a beacon. The route follows a line of obvious overhanging open-books on the prow separating the two sectors.
FA: G. Lacey & E February, 1982 FFA: A.de Klerk & E February, 1983 | 67m, 4 | |||
23 | ★★ Fear of Flying
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18m
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25m
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25m
A good route with an exciting traverse - don't fly. Start: an overhang juts out left of a prominent drip, on this is a piton in the middle of a small face, about 4m off the ground. At the base is an A3 sized flat rock, and about 2m above and right the wall seeps slightly on the overhang.
We suspect this pitch starts well left of the line described above, and instead we highly recommend the last pitch of Railrunner. FA: E. February & K. Appollis, 1978 | 93m, 4 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles Slangolie Buttress Snake-oil Battlegrounds | |||||
23 | Battlefish
Start from the ledge, left and behind the bushes on the left side of the crag, and the line heads diagonally right until the head wall, where it goes straight up to the tree. FA: Richard Halsey | 25m | |||
24 | ★★★ An Uncertain Piece
Best Line at the crag: interesting moves with a pumpy disposition. Start in the north-facing, undercut open book on the left side of the wall, and basically follows this line to the top. Head up and right to an undercut nose, then up the vague open book and through easier ground to a rest below a clean face broken by a single, vertical crack. FA: Warren Gans, 2015 | 25m | |||
24 | ★★ Arc Crusade
This is the longest line at the crag: an enormous left diagonal line sharing the same start as POD and exiting at the tree above An Uncertain Piece. It was opened ground up on-sight. FA: Richard Halsey, Jan 2015 | 25m | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles Corridor Buttress | |||||
23 | Wildlife Preserves
Start from a boulder by two vertical white stripes. Straight up to the roof. Pull through and follow the thin vertical crack. When this peters out tend slightly right up the face. FA: Richard Halsey, Oct 2015 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles BEE Buttress | |||||
23 | Killer Bee
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FA: Richard Halsey & C. Bagley, Aug 2015 | 40m, 2 | |||
24 | Queen Bee
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20m
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20m
Takes the central line up the centre of the steepest part of the buttress. The first pitch goes free at grade 24 to the hands free rest in the roof. This pitch will go free at about grade 28 if you can do the boulder move. (There was an ancient bail wire in the steep crack just below the roof, so someone has played here before).
FA: Richard Halsey, Warren Gans, C. Bagley, S. Jansen van Rensburg & J. Theron, Mar 2015 | 40m, 2 | |||
23 | ★★★ Affirmative Action
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23
40m
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18
35m
Possibly the most striking line on Bee, this line takes the open book that separates the face routes on the main face from the steeper lines of the left. Considered one of the best lines in the area.
FA: J. Lanz, P. Lochner & M. Cowen, 1999 FA: M. Cowen & James Mader, 2007 | 75m, 2 | |||
24 | The Persian Persuasion
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20m
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20m
2.From the Anvil, head left to the stepped arête and climb just right of the arête until the overhang at the top Affirmative Action. Step left and continue straight up. FFA: Richard Halsey & D. Steyn, Jul 2015 FA: Richard Halsey & M. Thilo, Jul 2015 | 40m, 2 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Apostles Sea Buttress | |||||
23 | Sea Fever
Start in the bottomless right facing open book, then run up the face between two cracks - don't get sucked into either of them - even when you really really want to! The line keeps pretty much straight and ends as the head wall tends left. FA: S. Cunnane, 2016 | ||||
24 | ★★★ Kingklip Buffet
Left of the Ironborn corner, Kingklip Buffet follows the short arête to the steep crack system in the centre of the overhanging face. From the large boulder, pull up into the crack in the centre of the face and move right to the short, undercut arête. Continue up to the first roof and follow the vertical cracks through overlaps to a bottomless corner. Hard moves out right lead to the backrest of the ‘Throne’. Continue straight up to a wide horizontal rail and then up to a fin on the right. Pull back left to exit onto a ledge left of the bushes, continue up to next ledge where there is a rap point. FA: Richard Halsey & S. Cunnane, Oct 2016 | ||||
24 | ★★ The Pelican Eel
Start: On the furthest right boulder at the left end of the Lourie Cave. Pull up into the corner and move left onto a grey nose. Pull up right to some pockets and then left to follow a hairline crack to the right-facing, hanging corner above. Pull around left and up to the roof. Crank through and over on great holds to the face above. Head up and slightly left to join the last moves of Blue Devil. Abseil from touch point. An easier version could take a line starting about about 2.5m right and running parallel up to the roof, traverse left and finish the same. FA: Richard Halsey & Warren Gans, Oct 2016 | ||||
23 | ★★ Blue Devil
Start at the left end of the Lourie Cave. From some large square boulders, pull on the short face perpendicular to main wall. Traverse left under roof and pull on wall above. Step right and up to the next blocky roof. Head up and left to an exposed and undercut recess. Pull into this (crux) and up the good rail above. Continue up and tend right across the face above, moving right under some grass and up to a ledge. Find a good stance with a rap point. FA: Richard Halsey, Sep 2016 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Glen The Shire | |||||
FB:5B+ - C+ | Fool of a Took!
Stand start topout of Himura. FA: Brendan Kuhnert, 2022 | ||||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Ledge Fountain Ledge | |||||
23 | ★★ Quake
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21
18m
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19
30m
3
23
30m
FA: T. Versfeld, L. Rust & Dirk Versfeld, 1999 | 78m, 3 | |||
24 | ★★ Cloud Surfing
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24
20m
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23
25m
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24
20m
A sustained route with a bit of spice. The second pitch is great with a wild finish! Start by the tree at the right end of the little ledge as for the direct start to 'Touch and Go'.
Note: Other than the sections shared with Farewell to Arms, some sections of these pitches may well have been done before, but all the crux sections are new to the best of our knowledge. The result is a bit of a hybrid route that offers a fairly demanding line up the wall. Consensus grading is needed. Pitch 3 may be harder for shorter folks. FA: Richard Halsey & M. Penso, Apr 2018 | 65m, 3 | |||
23 | ★★★ Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb
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23
15m
2
21
25m
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21
25m
FA: L. Rust & T. Versfeld, 2001 | 65m, 3 | |||
23 | ★★★ Arms Race
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23
25m
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25m
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22
30m
FA: E. February, A. de Klerk & G. Lacey, 1982 | 80m, 3 | |||
23 PROT:R | ★★★ Space Race
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23 R
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30m
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21 R
12m
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21
20m
Start: The route is in The Dream sector on Fountain Ledge, Table Mountain. Space Race is very direct and goes through one of the biggest flat roofs on the mountain. The first pitch starts between Farewell to Arms and Last Tango.
FA: Hilton Davies & G. Paterson-Jones, 2012 | 92m, 4 | |||
23 | ★★★ REM
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23
20m
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21
20m
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25m
FFA: L. Rust & D. Turnbull, 1998 FA: L. Rust & R. Suter, 1998 | 65m, 3 | |||
23 | Wet Dream
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20m
Start: The prominent feature of the Cobblestones Gendarme is the huge overhang and chamber beneath it. The left end of the huge overhang drops a plumbline to Fountain Ledge where La Vida (and Sweet Dreams) starts up the clean arete.
FA: Charles Edelstein & R. Breyer, 2010 | 110m, 6 | |||
23 | ★★★ The Wake-up
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23
30m
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21
30m
FA: T. Dick & T. Versfeld, 2004 | 60m, 2 | |||
24/25 | Fountain Roof Traverse
Take the first 4 pitches of 'Roulette' until the roof. Pull onto the face and traverse right on the lip of the roof until the overhang below your feet ends, and then straight up the wall above (to the left of the top pitch of 'Myrrh'). FA: M. Bush | ||||
23 | ★★ Captain Hook
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16
35m
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23
12m
3
20
15m
4
11
20m
FA: P Andersen & J Knight, 1972 FFA: D. Kelfkins & A. de Klerk, 1982 | 82m, 4 | |||
23 | ★★★ Boulder Highway
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23
12m
2
15
30m
3
22
35m
FA: A. de Klerk, 1983 | 77m, 3 | |||
24 | ★★★ Cool Cat
FA: Hilton Davies, 1979 | 17m | |||
23 | ★★★ Eternity Road
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23
20m
2
20
15m
FA: A. de Klerk, J. Davies & W. Tomlinson, 1982 | 35m, 2 | |||
Cape Town Table Mountain The Ledge Africa Amphitheatre | |||||
24 | No Horizon
A lonely, exposed pitch consisting of a horizontal roof and steep crack that is visible from Tafelberg road, near the top pitch of Africa Amphitheatre. It could now be done as an alternative, hard last pitch to 'Africa Safari'. Access: To be done as a single pitch: From the upper cable station, walk towards Platteklip, passing two viewing areas with railings. The next lookout has a stone wall. From here, in the direction of Devil's Peak, one can see a huge, egg-shaped boulder on the edge. About 20m left, as viewed from here, is the top of the pitch. Abseil from good sling points above the left wall of the corner to a platform. Scramble down over a boulder to another ledge below the route. Route: 30m (24?) Gain the roof and crank through the obvious flake and crack (about 4m long) to the lip, and then follow the steep crack system, taking the right split at the top of the steep section. The top third is still a bit lichenous, but at this stage, the business is over. Consensus grading needed FA: Richard Halsey, 2012 | 30m |