<guide><text class="heading1">Gordons Hill</text><text class="intro">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"></image><text class="access">From Lindisfarne take Gordon's Hill Road and turn left onto Kent St. Take the first right (Avoca St.). Park here. Walk from the end of the street into the bush (apparently there is a right of way here near the vacant block) and follow the fence line until you see a poxy little boulder. Head uphill from here to find the main group. At the top on the left is a vertical wall with a few problems and eliminates on it. A couple of metres downhill from this is a boulder which is undercut on its North face and now has "bong on" sprayed across it- this is the Main Boulder. </text><text class="heading3">Top Face</text><image src="Gordons Hillgh1.jpg"></image><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: </text><image src="Gordons Hillgh2.jpg"></image><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" 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 make an awkward mantle</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> |