Trad Hit List

Revision as of 16:54, 2 September 2009

A list of best Trad routes in ZA - 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

Tafelberg

• Big Groove 20
• Comes a Time 20
• Baboon Speak 21
• Rooibosch (18')

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
• The Dream

Lions Head granite

• Millions (1Cool
• Bastille Crack (20)

Lion's Head Sandstone

• Clifton Crest (16)

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
• Renaissance

Yellowwood Amphitheatre

• Armageddon Time

Hellfire

• Hellfire (the route) 24
• Burnout

Montagu

• Technicolour Darkness [area closed]
• Nuclear Waste [area closed]

Karbonaaitjieskraal

• Rastarock
• Divine Dog

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)

Magaliesberg

• Mhalbs:

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

• Upper Tonquani:

                 Last Rites (19)
                 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)

• 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)
                 Gnasher (19)

• Fernkloof:

           Fernkloof Pinnacle (17)
           Dextrose
           Lazarus  

• Hamerkop:

          Quintessence
          One Crack Mind
          Amazing Grace Direct

• 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

Wilgepoort

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

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

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