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D: Stalker on the Horizon

  • Grade context: FR
  • Ascents: 51

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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.

Routes

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start with large flake, move to good hold then right to gaston and finish up the face. This route is often confused for the easier variation (Bols Island Left) which climbs directly up on jugs.

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FA: Scott Noy, 2009

Start as Bols Island but use the jugs on the left to top out. Note that that this route is often incorrectly climbed as Bols Island - which is the case for both videos below.

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FA: Scott Noy, 2009

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Start with left hand on sidepull and climb up the left side of the slashes.

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FA: Scott Noy, 2006

Crouch-start with slopers (without stone for feet) and climb into Stalker on the Horizon.

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FA: Cody Roth, 2009

Start as Chakijana but climb out right.

FA: Cody Roth, 2009

Starts on jugs and climb straight up

FA: Scott Noy, 2006

Sit-start with good hold and climb through the roof. "A Zulu storyteller tells it is a meercat, others a hero of their culture."

FA: Fred Nicole, 2016

FA: Carlos Tkacz, 2019

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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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