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15-Dec-2017 9:51:53 AM
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Hi
This might be a long shot but I've been trawling the net for Beta or a guide for Single Cone in the Remarkables, NZ. Wondering if you guys know which guide book I should look into for it and if you guys have any experience climbing/scrambling it, would be keen to hear.
Also does anyone know what the Tip Toe Ridge equivalent is in South Island NZ?
Cheers
Peter
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15-Dec-2017 10:52:42 AM
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>Also does anyone know what the Tip Toe Ridge equivalent is in South Island
>NZ?
Chip Bro Ridge?
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15-Dec-2017 11:39:23 AM
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On 15-Dec-2017 Peetiez wrote:
>Hi
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>This might be a long shot but I've been trawling the net for Beta or a
>guide for Single Cone in the Remarkables, NZ. Wondering if you guys know
>which guide book I should look into for it and if you guys have any experience
>climbing/scrambling it, would be keen to hear.
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>Also does anyone know what the Tip Toe Ridge equivalent is in South Island
>NZ?
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>Cheers
>Peter
I haven't climbed there, but I'm sure I have it in one or more of my guidebooks (Rock Deluxe, South Island Rock, Queenstown and Wanaka Rock and Ice), just not sure which. The NZ alpine club has an online database with quite a bit of info too, so worth a look. Will PM you.
Have a look here.
http://climbnz.org.nz/nz/si/otago/the-remarkables/single-cone/south-face
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15-Dec-2017 3:41:58 PM
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Hi Peter
Funny enough I was looking at Single Cone just this morning as I'm hoping to head to NZ in April. Can't help with the various routes or a guidebook but thought this video gave a pretty good idea of the scrambling involved in the grand traverse of single and double cone.
climbing the grand traverse
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18-Dec-2017 6:26:23 AM
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It's in Queenstown Rock Ice & Mountains. http://alpineclub.org.nz/product/queenstown-rock-ice-and-mountains/
I'm told it's not difficult, though it is long and not as easy as Tiptoe Ridge (and a lot looser). You are higher and further from any help, and as always in the alps ... weather. Take or hire a PLB.
If you need to bail, don't try to abseil off down the Lake Wakatipu side, that will likely end up as a rescue operation, as happened recently.
Best place to ask questions online is probably the NZAC facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/groups/5638346254
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18-Dec-2017 10:35:25 AM
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Hi, I've been up/down the Gully Route a few times in winter and summer. From the carpark it is 99% walking or very low angle scrambling, though all in a very alpine environment. The crux is the gully right at the top, which is only 40m or so high and tops out metres from the summit. The gully is an easy rock scramble when dry (or easy snow climb in winter), though be warned there could be snow in the gully even end of summer but usually so little that it can be easily managed without snow gear. Hard to put a grade on it (10?), and there may be some loose rock here and there but there is plenty of solid rock on the walls for gear and to bridge over loose stuff. There are two rap stations so you can get down with a single 60m rope (if I remember correctly).
See here for someone elses trip report: http://www.peakbagger.com/climber/ascent.aspx?aid=492876 and https://www.facebook.com/rob.woodall1/media_set?set=a.10200153484957331.1073741933.1757312418&type=1&l=fd33f70fd2
And if you ask on https://www.facebook.com/groups/queenstownclimbingclub/ you will get more info I am sure.
A Tip Toe Ridge equivalent in NZ? There isn't one.
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