Nursery Ravine - Revision history

Robertbreyer: Some major updates to the topo.

2013-02-02T19:59:02Z

Some major updates to the topo.

Justin at 13:19, 23 August 2011

2011-08-23T13:19:27Z

Climbza: Created page with ' -33.983333, 18.416667, Nursery Ravine …'

2011-08-23T12:05:46Z

Created page with '<googlemap lat="-33.983333" lon="18.416667" version="0.9" type="hybrid" zoom="13" width="600" height="600" controls="small" overview="yes"> -33.983333, 18.416667, Nursery Ravine …'

New page

<googlemap lat="-33.983333" lon="18.416667" version="0.9" type="hybrid" zoom="13" width="600" height="600" controls="small" overview="yes">
-33.983333, 18.416667, Nursery Ravine
</googlemap>

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-Nursery Gambles
+Nursery Gambols
 == Getting There ==
@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 == Nursery Gambles ==
-Leave the Nursery Ravine path and move up along the foot of the rock, through a clump of trees to a recess, which after 7 meters changes into a long, narrow overhang. This overhang stretches some 20 meters across the bottom section of the buttress. The recess is directly under the left-hand end of the overhang and almost directly under the crack in the top overhang.
+Leave the Nursery Ravine path about 100m from the top. There is a faint path through the thick fern overgrowth leading to the rock face on the right, about 25m long. Move up along the foot of the rock, through a clump of trees to a recess, which after 7 meters changes into a long, narrow overhang. This overhang stretches some 20 meters across the bottom section of the buttress. The recess is directly under the left-hand end of the 20m overhang.
-. 21m ‘13’: Climb 5m up the recess, then traverse to the right under the overhang to reach a wide ledge. Walk 5m to the right.<br>
+. 21m ‘13’: Climb 5m up the recess, then traverse 15m to the right under the overhang to a widening ledge. Traverse another 2m to the right to set up the stance below the obvious right-angled recess. Crux is the wet mossy beginning of the traverse. A large yellow or blue camalot protects a step-over at the end of traverse. <br>
 . 10m ‘9’: Climb a right-angled recess which ends in a crack with a chockstone in it.<br>
 . 11m ‘13’: Climb up into the recess, continue to a small ledge, then traverse around to the left into a deep chimney.<br>
 . 7m ‘9’: Climb a chimney to a ledge under a big overhang. Walk 7m to the left to a notch in the overhangs with a dassie-ledge (a dassie is a small animal) immediately under it.<br>
-. 10m ‘16’: Climb the notch, via the dassie-ledge, and continue up the recess to a stance.<br>
+Editors note: we could not find pitches 3. and 4. so we did P3 of Buccanneer (20). For this we started in a right-facing corner 10 m to the right of P2. This pitch is just to the to the left of the big tree and follows a corner about 20m up to another very large ledge. The pitch has a bottomless start, and a tricky move or two higher up as well.  Gear placement is a bit tricky. For confident 20 leaders only.
-. 7m ‘9’: Climb a chimney, passing to the left of a projecting flake. There is a stance in the cave.<br>
+. 10m ‘16’: Move 5m to the left. Climb into the right-facing corner, using the crack system. Start is the crux, reach high for good hand holds to pull through. Feet are the challenge here. Good gear protects the crux move (cam or hex in the "notch"). Continue on easier terrain up the recess to a stance.<br>
-. 13m ‘14’: Climb up into the crack, then move out along it to round the overhang. Climb the right-hand one of two recesses above the exit to the crack.<br>
+. 7m ‘9’: Climb a chimney, passing to the left of a projecting flake/block. There is a stance in the cave.<br>
 Descent: Walk of to the left to the top of Nursery Ravine.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 <googlemap lat="-33.983333" lon="18.416667" version="0.9" type="hybrid" zoom="13" width="600" height="600" controls="small" overview="yes">
 -33.983333, 18.416667, Nursery Ravine
 </googlemap>