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Hope Buttress

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Access issues inherited from Rocklands

(Leaving this here as its inherited by child locations - please take the time to take pictures of the boulders you visit and post them under the relavent locations so that we can start populating more topos 🙂).

As of 2014, no climbing is allowed in Rocklands without a valid climbing permit. Land owners often conduct inspections in the climbing areas and anyone found without a permit will be asked to leave the climbing area. Permits can be obtained online - www.quicket.co.za - or purchased at CapeNature's Kliphuis campsite office; De Pakhuys campsite office; or Traveller's Rest farmstall and restaurant.

Ethic inherited from Rocklands

  1. Bury your faeces and carry out your toilet paper. If the ground is too hard to bury your faeces, please carry it out with you and dispose of it in the campsite bins. Poop bags are available for free at De Pakhys. (A special note about this: Tea Garden has been closed primarily due to this problem. Animals such as baboons may eat human faeces and could contract diseases such as Tuberculosis and hepatitis, which could prove detrimental to the population)

  2. Do not litter – carry everything you bring in with you back out with you and dispose of your litter in the bins at the campsite.

  3. Stick to the allocated paths marked by cairns and as illustrated in the guidebook. Diverting from these paths causes far more erosion than is necessary and may cause the extinction of certain sensitive plants in the area.

  4. No graffiti on rock surfaces. (Black Shadow boulder has been closed to climbing due to graffiti)

  5. No pof is allowed in Rocklands. The resin damages the rock surfaces and this damage is irreversible.

The complete disrespect of boulderers for the land on which they climb is a very serious and has become a very real threat to bouldering in Rocklands.

Rocklands bouldering is in peril. Rocklands does not belong to the climbers.

Our access is not a right, it’s a privilege and our treatment of the land is the difference between us being allowed to climb in Rocklands and us being banned from climbing in Rocklands altogether.

Irresponsible boulderers have caused this problem and boulderers are the only ones who can fix it.

Please respect the land you climb on in South Africa and adhere to the above mentioned rules. Your privilege to climb in Rocklands depends on it.

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FA: K. Swansen & C. Vlnd, 1984

FA: P. Schlotfeldt & M. Richter, 1984

60m right of the cave is a steep bushy recess. 4 pitches following easy climbing. Pitch 2 sports an overhanging crux at (15).

FA: A. Smith & B. O'Meara, 1984

1 20
2 15
3 15
4 22
5 20
6 23

Start from a ledge to the right of a large dirty crack.

  1. Climb the face slightly right then slightly left into a recess and up to a stance.

  2. Climb up to a large ledge.

  3. Walk left and climb the right side of the juggy wall.

  4. Boulder up and climb leftwards through the arched roof.

  5. Climb the scoop to a ledge and traverse right below a crack.

  6. Climb the crack.

  7. Climb up right through the overhang to a stance.

  8. Climb up the break and fight through the offwitch. Pull through the overhang and finish up leftwards.

FA: Andy de Klerk & Ed February, 1984

1 18 30m
2 21 25m
3 17 30m
4 16 20m

Start 15m left of the start/ grey open book on 'Butterfinger Crisp'

  1. Bolted: 30m (18) From a boulder, pull onto the face and up to a tiny platform. Head straight up a system of vertical cracks and small corners to the huge ledge. Walk 15m right.

  2. 25m (21) Just right of a huge boulder, pull up into a very wide crack that almost forms a corner that arches up and left. Step left onto a face and up and to a small tree. Pull up past the tree and up the steep layback above. Move 5m right to a belay.

  3. 30m (17) Climb a few meters up a fin at the base of a grey corner. Step left on the face and head diagonally up and left to a narrow corner (with a fused seam). Follow this to a ledge and belay 5m right of some abseil tat.

  4. 20m (16) Head up an orange ramp tending right to the steep wall of chicken heads. Follow this straight up to the top. This is likely the same finish as 'Butterfinger Crisp'

FA: A. Gietl & Richard Halsey, 2013

1 14
2 13
3 14
4 14
5 16
6 ?
7 12

Walk along left under the long overhang and exit out past a tree. The route goes up passed a large nose feature.

  1. Start left of the tree move up slightly right and upwards, gaining a small ledge and then upwards for a few more meters until your reach a large ledge with a big block on it.

  2. Climb up the chimney placing gear on extensions as you move up, twin ropes are a good idea to avoid rope drag (clip one rope left of chimney and then the alternate tope only after completing the chimney. Zig zag gently across the thin face (stay low before moving up) and stance in the shady corner.

  3. Climb the layback with committing style and place small cams in the powder tufa's at the top of the layback corner to protect the second before moving out left on the ramp. Place some small micro nuts and micro cams in the thin rail of the ramp for 5 metres and stance where there is good gear and a wide ledge.

  4. Climb the jugs straight up and then move slightly right on the thin face and then left again before moving upwards to finish.

FA: Wayne & Tonia Claussen, 1984

Wild at Heart, 25 Start: Hope Buttress has two big grey open books in the top half. We are interested in the right hand one. From the clump of pines walk up the left side of the valley between Hope and Charity Buttresses. Avoid the first broken band of rock and on the ledge above it head out left to the very long overhang. The route starts about 8m before the left-hand end of the overhang at a cairn.

  1. [21] 15m
    Get off the ground at the big white dot on the rock. Meander up and left to stance at the lip of the overhang on the left at the cascade of creepers.
  2. [20] 20m
    Go through the right-hand break in the overlaps above. Continue up to the big ledge system at the base of the beautiful, blunt orange arête with the yellow-white streak.
  3. [25] 25m
    Start up the yellow-white streak on orange rock up to the roofs. Continue up directly on grey rock through the overlaps and then up the grey arête to a ledge.
  4. [25] 40m
    Start at the back of the ledge then head out rightwards to gain the arête proper. Continue up the arête to the top (world-class).

FA: Hilton Davies & Guy Paterson-Jones, 12 Jul 2014

Starts just left of the end of Butterfinger Crisp. Note: Anchors are slings rapped around rock features. Slings may need to be replaced so bring along a few 120cm slings and carabiners.

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Author(s): Tony Lourens

Date: 2023

ISBN: 9780796123541

A definitive guidebook covering all the sport climbing found throughout the whole of the Cederberg mountain range, describing 436 sport routes across a wide range of grades from F4b to F9a.

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