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  <header name="Roches Beach bouldering" id="1" walk="5-10 min" sun="All day" rock="Dolerite" acknowledgement="" intro="" history="" access="Drive along the Acton Park Rd (either from Lauderdale or Acton Park) until it meets the Roches Beach Rd. Turn and drive along Roches Beach Rd then turn left onto Nowra. Drive along Nowra for 150m then turn right onto Kirra Rd. Parking is at the end of Kirra Rd where the Tangara trail can be accessed by a track beside the last property.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk along the Tangara trail until you can walk down to a small beach. The problems are around from the Northern end of the beach. The walk from the car is about 5 minutes." camping="" autonumber="true"/>
  <gps id="3">
    <point pid="1" latitude="-42.88087" longitude="147.50446" easting="541197" northing="5252291" zone="55G" description="Parking"/>
    <point pid="2" description="Main area" latitude="-42.87926" longitude="147.50888" easting="541559" northing="5252467" zone="55G"/>
    <point pid="3" description="Block Area" latitude="-42.87861" longitude="147.50931" easting="541595" northing="5252539" zone="55G"/>
  </gps>
  <text class="heading2" id="2">The Main Area</text>
  <text id="4" class="text">The main area comprises a grouping of slabs, block and steeper cave area.</text>
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      <climb>6</climb>
      <climb>7</climb>
      <climb>8</climb>
      <climb>9</climb>
      <climb>10</climb>
      <climb>11</climb>
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      <climb>13</climb>
      <climb>14</climb>
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  <problem id="13" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="7." name="Double Dyno" length="" grade="V0" fa=""/>
  <problem id="14" stars="**" extra="(SDS)" number="8." name="Arete" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
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      <climb>14</climb>
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      <climb>17</climb>
      <climb>18</climb>
      <climb>19</climb>
      <climb>28</climb>
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      <climb>21</climb>
      <climb>22</climb>
      <climb>23</climb>
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  <problem id="21" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="14." name="" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
  <problem id="22" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="15." name="" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
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    <legend>
      <climb>25</climb>
      <climb>26</climb>
      <climb>27</climb>
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  <problem id="25" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="17." name="Roof thing" length="" grade="V2" fa=""/>
  <problem id="26" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="18." name="" length="" grade="V3" fa="">A little contrived in avoiding the big foot hold on the next line at the top out.&lt;br/&gt;</problem>
  <problem id="27" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="19." name="" length="" grade="V0" fa=""/>
  <text id="29" class="heading2">The Block Area</text>
  <text id="30" class="text">The Block Area is 5mins past the Main Area.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk along the Tangara trail past the main area (small beach) until a fork that goes towards the water. Follow the fork towards the water until near a big dead tree. Head for the top of the waterside cliff trending right (South). Follow the cliff top until you can access the rocky beach and blocks.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Block area has a range of nice problems to while away some time in pleasant surroundings. Many of the problems are well above the waterline so should be accessible at high tide.</text>
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      <climb>32</climb>
      <climb>33</climb>
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  <problem id="32" stars="*" extra="(SDS)" number="20." name="Monumental" length="" grade="V0" fa="">Start with left and right sidepulls</problem>
  <problem id="33" stars="**" extra="(SDS)" number="21." name="Palatine" length="" grade="VE" fa="">Start on jug.</problem>
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      <climb>45</climb>
      <climb>46</climb>
      <climb>47</climb>
      <climb>48</climb>
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  <text id="50" class="text">The Mouth is a small cave to the right of the Monumental boulder. Topping out the problems involves easy climbing and a long walk (otherwise downclimb or jump off when standing above the lip). Seems like there are a few options for traverses and variants to the obvious lines.</text>
  <problem id="45" stars="***" extra="(SDS)" number="22." name="Lip Servant" length="" grade="V4" fa="">Start on lip jug and pinchy undercling. Head left to the arete and up.&lt;br/&gt;</problem>
  <problem id="46" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="23." name="Lip Servant Low project" length="" grade="V?" fa="">After sending Lip Service cleaning out some debris and moving a big rock exposed a lower sit.</problem>
  <problem id="47" stars="" extra="" number="24." name="&apos;I don&apos;t want to jam that&apos; project" length="" grade="V?" fa="">Start on the back rail to the right of the crack. Hard!</problem>
  <problem id="48" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="25." name="Lip Right project" length="" grade="V?" fa="">Start on the rail at the lip to the right of the crack. Head right and up.</problem>
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      <climb>35</climb>
      <climb>36</climb>
      <climb>37</climb>
      <climb>38</climb>
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  <problem id="35" stars="" extra="(Stand)" number="26." name="Suburban" length="" grade="VE" fa="">Start on the ledge on the south face.</problem>
  <problem id="36" stars="" extra="(Stand)" number="27." name="" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
  <problem id="37" stars="" extra="(Stand)" number="28." name="" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
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      <climb>40</climb>
      <climb>41</climb>
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  <problem id="40" stars="" extra="(SDS)" number="30." name="" length="" grade="VE" fa=""/>
  <problem id="41" stars="*" extra="(SDS)" number="31." name="Two left shoes" length="" grade="V3" fa="">Start on the big undercling and throw to the top.</problem>
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      <climb>43</climb>
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  <problem id="43" stars="**" extra="(SDS)" number="32." name="One of lifes small struggles" length="" grade="V3" fa="">Start with the high right crimp and mid left arete. Pop to the top then mantle it out.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Look to be three variations the lower the RH starts the harder the problem.</problem>
</guide>