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How to get to Pierces Pass.
Bladderhozen Butress.
Smegadeath Area.
Rigby Hill.
Walls Lookdown.
Samarkand Area.
Weaselbeger & Mirror Ball Area.
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SAMARKAND AREA




Access: Walk towards Wall’s Lookdown and jig back up the main track for a 10 m then down the ridge and into the gully, cross the creek a few times too (see map). Walk along the halfway ledge and rap in, or come down Pierce’s Pass and walk around the bottom of the cliffs on the base jumpers track (this is a good escape route too). If you know you’ll get up your route it’s best to come in on the halfway ledge, rap down and climb up to the ledge, have lunch etc, do the top pitches and then rap back down to the ledge, or walk down the easy gully if you’re on the left side.
There are rap routes below a big wattle tree for Samarkand (3 raps, scary), down Critical Mass (3 raps, plush), down Mirrorball (2 raps, easiest) and at the far right end of the ledge down Weaselberger (3 raps but the ropes often get stuck). All these abseils need 2 X 50m ropes.

1/ Samarkand* 25 180m [TOPO]
p1: 23 20m, p2: 25 40m, p3: 23 25m, p4: 22 35m, p5: 22 35m
Large wires and a double set of cams
FA: L Trihey, B McMahon
FFA: M Law, G Child, S Moon, W Payten



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