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        access="From the Granville harbour Road travel 3 km along Climes Track to the top of a steeper section (where it gets too rough for 2WD vehicles). Walk along Climes Track down to the creek. At the creek look for a smaller track on the right which connects with another track paralleling the coast. Continue walking south on it for half an hour to a 30m high cliff set back 50 m from the coast and above a pond. Guesstimated position in AGD 66 is 341200 E; 5363200 N."
        acknowledgement="by Nick Hancock" history="" intro=""
        name="The Velvet Underground" new="false"
        rock="Coastal granite, 20m high" sun="" walk=""></header><image><image
        new="false" noPrint="false" number="null." src="VelvetUg.jpg"
        width="600">null</image><climb extra="" grade="24" length="25m"
        name="Sweet Jane" new="false" number=""
        stars="***">Climbs the pillar with a wide horizontal break at half height, on the left side of the cliff. Technical moves past six glued carrots. Nick Hancock.  Feb, 2006.
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        extra="" grade="2026" length="25m" name="Heroin" new="false"
        number=""
        stars="**">1)  10m  26  Climb the very thin seam past two glued carrots to a belay on the right. 2)  15m  17  Follow the corner above trending left onto the arête to finish.Nick and Heather Hancock,  Feb, 2006.
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        extra="" grade="24" length="30m" name="Sunday Morning Direct"
        new="false" number=""
        stars="">Climbs the overhanging groove direct to the slab, instead of traversing in from the left. Nick Hancock  Feb, 2007.  
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        extra="" grade="20" length="25m" name="I’ll Be Your Mirror"
        stars=" *** ">Thin cracks on good wires then carefully up the easy slab above.  Nick Hancock &amp; Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
        extra="" grade="22" length="25m" name="Sunday Morning"
        stars=" ** ">Follow the right trending diagonal off blocks to the flared vertical cracks.  Follow these to a glued carrot and a thin move over a bulge.  Climb up to a deep flared crack (4 Camalot) and another bolt on the final slab.  Nick Hancock &amp; Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
        extra="" grade="24" length="25m" name="Venus In Furs"
        stars=" * ">Climb the brutal fist crack to shrubbery.  Go left to another crack then back right to a black groove through the final tier.  4, 5 &amp; 6 friend-sized cams essential.  Nick Hancock &amp; Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
        extra="" grade="26" length="25m" name="Waiting For The Man"
        stars=" *** ">Climb a very thin crack up a prow past 4 glued carrots to another on the pocketed wall above.  Nick Hancock &amp; Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
        extra="" grade="18" length="25m"
        name="I’m Beginning to See the Light"
        stars=" ** ">Climb a right trending ramp (4 &amp; 5 Camalot) to open grooves (4 glued carrots).  Sarah Hedges &amp; Nick Hancock Jan 2004.</climb><climb
        extra="" grade="19" length="25m" name="Black Angels Death Song"
        stars=" * ">Near the top of the rocky gully on the right side of the crag climb a left trending crack to an easy finish.  Nick Hancock &amp; Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><text
        class="heading3" new="false"
        number="null.">Somewhere NW of Trial Harbour</text><text
        class="text" new="false"
        number="null."> From the campsite at the north end of Trial Harbor walk north along the coast for 30 minutes until a long blank wall blocks further progress.</text><climb
        extra="" grade="21" length="20m" name="Goldrush" stars=" *** ">Climb the immaculate dyke via three carrots to an easier finish via a crack.  Nick Hancock &amp; Ken Palmer, Jan 2004.</climb></guide>