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This is a list of the best trad routes in South Africa: any grade, anything goes, can have a bolt here or there but must be primarily trad.

(I'm going to keep on editing my list (below) with suggestions that are made at http://www.climb.co.za/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2961
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Wolfberg

Energy Crisis (20)
Celestial Journey (22)
Alone in Space (22)
Eclipse (13)
Knobless Robot (18)
Satisfaction Guaranteed (19)

Tafelberg

Big Groove (20)
Comes a Time (20)
Baboon Speak (21)
Rooibosch (18)
Pillar Box Standard Route (17)
Woodrow Arete (18)
Solitaire (19)

Krakadouw

King Kong 21/22
Ichthyasaurus 21/22
Austrolopethicus

Table Mountain

Triple Indirect
Jacobs Ladder 17
Roulette 19
African Lunch 23
Magnetic Wall 19
Atlantic Crag 18
The Dream 21 and Wet Dream
Bombay Duck 17
Africa Edge 23
Africa arête 25
Touch and Go 23
Don't Squeeze I'll Laugh 21
No Longer at Ease 25
The Cruise 21

Lions Head granite

Millions 19
Bastille Crack 20
de Bruin Damage 18
Scratch 17

Lion's Head Sandstone

Clifton Crest (15)
Beware The Dark Horse (18)

Lakeside Pinnacle

Crack of Dawn (17)

Muizenberg Crag

Crackle
No Name Brand
Understairs and Dilettante

Du Toits Kloof

Exposure in the 'F' Major
No More Bells 19
Renaissance

Yellowwood Amphitheatre

Prime Time Direct 25
Fantastic Time 23
Fun Time 20
One Helluva Good time 20
Armageddon Time 23

Hellfire

Hellfire (the route) 24
Burnout 21
Aurora 19
Joker Smoker 17
Flint 21

Montagu

Technicolour Darkness [area closed]
Nuclear Waste [area closed]
The Dog Bowl routes

Karbonaaitjieskraal

Rastarock
Divine Dog

Manoutsa

Hard Rock Cafe (18)

Blyderivier

Green Bottle (19)
Prelude to Luka (20)
Book of Baloo (21)
Silver Ribbon (18)
Sundance Kid (19)
The Iron Curtain (24)
Cactus Dykes (20)
Buried Treasure (20)
Mother Nature's Necessities (19)

Check the Blydepoort Classics RD for more.

Blouberg

Eight Miles High (24)
Dog Day in Heaven (25/6)
Hey Jude (21)
Dreams of White Dogs (26)
Dog of Thunder (30 A0)

Kransberg

Aasvoël's End (17 R)
Angel Recess (15)

Magaliesberg

Mhalbs

Space Walk (21)
Crystal Fire (23)
Egowhip (23)
Straight Edge (16)
Final Cut (25)

Upper Tonquani

Last Rites (19 X)
Red Corner (17)
Hawks Eye (13)
The Moke (17)
Hyperadrenia (20)
Alchemy (22)

Cedarberg

Boggle (19)
Difficult Shapes and Passive Rythms (21)
Tigatrix (18)
Hangdog (21)
Golden Balls (15)
Butterfly (16)
Twist & Shout (28)
Cedarberg Corner Direct (13)

Boulder

Dogstyle (23)
Sabre (19)
Raging Bull (20)
Slipstream (18)
Blood and Chocolate (18)

Kranskloof

The Cruise (22)
Golden Goose (17)
The Swarm (direct finish) (19)
Pistol (18)
Arch of Time (24)
Clime of the Century (20)
Foetus (17)

Lower Tonquani

Hourglass (17)
Exstacy (17)
Doppler Effect (21)
Circuit Breaker (22)
Just Hot (23)
More Monkey Than Funkey (21)
Red Column (15)
Sands of Time (19 R)
Gnasher (19)
Question of Balance (21)

Fernkloof

Fernkloof Pinnacle (17)
Dextrose
Lazarus

Hamerkop

Quintessence (22)
One Crack Mind (19)
Amazing Grace Direct (18 X)
The Beer Hunter (20 X)

Eureka Dome

Aftermath

Dome

Fallen Angel
Devil's Advocate
Magic Dragon
Muffin Direct
Time Limit

Grootkloof

Isolation Pinnacle (11)
Dive Bomber (direct)

Castle Gorge

Donner en Bliksem (20)

Trident

Apex
Swiss Army Knife (17 R)

Wilgepoort

The Key (Direct first pitch) (21)
Cabernet/Muscadel Crack combination (18)
McFats LGP

The Hell

To Hell with skin

Magageni

Snakeskin Arete (20)

Mary (E Cape)

The Legend (26)

Paarl Rocks

Stem Gem - 22

The Berg

The North Face Route on Sentinel Peak (also called the Angus-Leppan Route)
Devil's Tooth.
Mponjwana, Standard Route.
The Bell, Hoper's Route.
The Pyramid, Standard Route.
The Column, Escarpment Arête.
The Monk's Cowl, Standard and Barry's Route.
The Injasuti Western Triplet, North West Ridge Route.
Giant's Castle, Schole's Route.
Giant's Castle, Makaza and the Main Loteni Couloir (ice routes).
Not so auto (on Monks cowl)

Boven

Heart of China (23)
Al's Bells (19)

Monteseel

Powderfinger
Fiddler in the roof
Granny's souped up wheelchair

Pinnacle Gorge

Lycra Trea
Por_noster
Slow ecstasy
Snip Snip
Fingercrack
Think Pink

Nagas Gorge

Old man's ecstasy
Moonjig

Lady Slipper

MacKegnie's madness
Twinkletoes
Flashdance

Hogsback

Fame and fashion

Both gorges in EC

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 * Pillar Box Standard Route (17)
 * Woodrow Arete (18)
+* Solitaire (19)
 === Krakadouw ===
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 * Magnetic Wall 19
 * Atlantic Crag 18
-* The Dream 21
+* The Dream 21 and Wet Dream
 * Bombay Duck 17
+* Africa Edge 23
+* Africa arête 25
+* Touch and Go 23
+* Don't Squeeze I'll Laugh 21
+* No Longer at Ease 25
+* The Cruise 21
 === Lions Head granite ===
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 === Yellowwood Amphitheatre  ===
+* Prime Time Direct 25
+* Fantastic Time 23
+* Fun Time 20
+* One Helluva Good time 20
 * Armageddon Time 23
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 * Aurora 19
 * Joker Smoker 17
+* Flint 21
 === Montagu ===
 * Technicolour Darkness [area closed]
 * Nuclear Waste [area closed]
+* The Dog Bowl routes
 === Karbonaaitjieskraal ===
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 === Paarl Rocks ===
 * Stem Gem - 22
-* Sans of Time
 === The Berg ===

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