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<guide><text class="heading1">Gordons Hill</text><text class="intro"
new="false"
number="null.">Another bouldering spot in suburbia worth at least one or two visits with a handful of good sandstone problems is Gordon's Hill Rocks.</text><image
src="Gordons Hillghmap.jpg"/><text class="text"
new="false">From Lindisfarne take Gordon's Hill Road and turn left onto Kent St. Take the first right (Avoca St.). The exact place to park and start walking seems to change all the time, with the ever increasing encroachment of suburbia on the bush. At the time of writing the best place to park is just near the gate to 19 Avoca St. Walk along the wire fence line from here, then turn right and wander down to the boulders. As well as the boulders shown, there are a couple more problems around the area.</text><text
class="heading3">Top Face</text><image
src="Gordons Hillgh1.jpg"/><problem extra="(Stand)" grade="V0"
name=" " number="1."
stars=" ">Blocky left arete then slopey topout</problem><problem
extra="(Stand)" grade="V1" name=" " number="2."
stars=" ">Face through large hueco</problem><problem
extra="(Stand)" grade="V3" name=" " number="3."
stars="*">Up the blank middle of the top vertical wall, from an undercling to small double pockets to the top.</problem><problem
extra="(SDS)" grade="VE" name=" " number="4."
stars=" ">Juggy face</problem><text
class="heading3">Main Boulder:
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src="Gordons Hillgh2.jpg"/><problem extra="(SDS)" grade="V1"
name="No Entry" number="1."
stars=" ">Move up from the black cave via jugs to the top. Eliminate the big holds to make it more interesting</problem><problem
extra="(SDS)" grade="V6?" name=" " number="2."
stars=" ">Project - Sit start at flakes in the middle of the back of the cave, out to underclings on lip and up middle of face.</problem><problem
extra="(SDS)" grade="V3/4" name="Gordon" new="false" number="3."
stars="**">Sit start with your hands on the good hold at the lip on the right of the face and dyno up to the jug and then mantle. You could probably start it further in, but it doesn't climb that well.</problem><problem
extra="(SDS)" grade="V4/5" name="Bong On" number="4."
stars="*">Do the first moves on Gordon and then traverse leftwards from the jug along the horizontal break without using the top of the boulder (or the big jugs at the left end), then finish up the left hand side of the face on slopes.</problem><problem
extra="(SDS)" grade="V?" name=" " number="5."
stars=" ">Arete just right of Gordon, avoiding the holds on the problems to the left and right.</problem><problem
extra=" " grade="V2" name="Trash" number="6."
stars=" ">Sit start at the right hand edge of the overhang. Up to a sidepull then up and left to topout.</problem><problem
extra=" " grade="V5" name=" " number="7." stars=" ">Start as for Trash, then traverse leftwards along the lip to the starting hold on Gordon. Either finish upwards (easier) or as for Bong On (harder).</problem></guide>
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