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Revision as of 07:59, 19 October 2011
Welcome to the ClimbZA Routes Wiki, an online rock climbing guide that you can edit. Please help us build the guide by adding useful information and correcting mistakes.
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Contents
General Information
South Africa offers some of the best climbing in the world. The rock is solid and great quality. There are many different rock formations all with different features. Oudtshoorn crags are limestone with hanging stalactites and tufas. The Cederberg is compact sandstone with ledges that offer solid gear placements. There is great sport climbing in Montagu, a small Klein Karoo town, where it is almost always dry, and there are loads and loads of bolted routes (about 400) of all grades. Waterval Boven is probably the most developed sport climbing area in the county with about 600 routes in a most beautiful setting. In the Free State, Mt Everest and Swinburne offer sport and trad climbing and awesome bouldering. The famous Wave Cave at Shongweni is just outside of Durban and has hard overhanging sport routes. You can do seaside cliff climbing at Morgan Bay. There is world class bouldering at Rocklands in the Cederberg, remote multi-pitch trad climbing at Magaliesberg and the Drakensberg Mountains. Ok, I could go on, but you get the point. The settings are beautiful and uncrowded by hoards of people. The small towns have a really nice laid-back country feel. The people are friendly and genuine. And the food, wine and atmosphere is always great!
A lot of climbing areas are on private land, so please be courteous to anybody you meet while in the area (it might be the landowner). Please don't litter. Only go to the toilet far away from the crag. Keep on the paths. Make a double knot on your shoelaces and always have a clean pair of underpants.
- MCSA (search and rescue, permits and access)
- Bolting information
Areas
Western Cape
- Bain's Kloof
- Cape Peninsula
- Elsies Peak
- Foreign Policy
- Higgovale Quarry
- Hout Bay - Bokkemanskloof, Chapman's Peak, Skoorsteenkop, The Sentinel
- Kalk Bay
- Lakeside Pinnacle
- Lion's Head - Granite & Sandstone
- Muizenberg Buttress
- Nursery Ravine
- Peers Cave
- Peninsula Bouldering Areas
- Table Mountain
- The Hole
- The Mine
- The Underside
- Silvermine Crags
- Cederberg
- Du Toit's Kloof
- Elands Bay
- Karbonaatjieskraal
- Kleinmond
- Montagu
- Oudtshoorn
- Swartberg Pass
- Swellendam
- Towerkop
Eastern Cape
- Kleinrivier
- Bobbejaankop & African Rennaissance
- Cape St Francis
- Fort Fordyce
- Hogsback
- Morgan Bay
- Pinnacle Gorge
- The Shire
- Howissen's Poort/Scoops
- Windmill Hole
- NSA, East London
- Buffalo River
Free State
- Langberg
- Harrismith - Eagle Mountain (formally known as Mount Everest)
- Swinburne
- Thaba Nchu
KwaZulu Natal
- Shongweni - The Wave Cave
- Shongweni Dam
- Monteseel
- Kloof Gorge
- Drakensberg
- White Umfolozi River
- Howick Falls
- Umgeni Valley
- Winston Park
- Mzinyathi Falls
Limpopo Province
Mpumalanga
- Waterval Boven
- Sabie Gorge
- Blydepoort
- Jim's Crag, Olifantshoek
- Magageni
- Wilgepoort
- Ngwempisi
- GoldRush Bouldering
- Croc River Canyon
- Manuotsa (JG Strydom Tunnel)
- Buffalo Gorge
Gauteng
- Bronkies
- Bobbejaans Berg (Mutango Lodge)
- Ezemvelo
- King's Kloof NEW!!!
- Melville Koppies
- Northcliff
- Plumbago Nature Reserve Bouldering
- Radioactive
- Strubens Valley
- Strubens 2
- The Chosspile
- The Glade
- The Keg
Northwest Province
Namibia
Botswana
Lesotho
Route Hit List
Editing the Wiki
Naming a New Article
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