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access="From the Granville harbour Road travel 3 km along Climes Track to the top of a steeper section (where it gets too rough for 2WD vehicles). Walk along Climes Track down to the creek. At the creek look for a smaller track on the right which connects with another track paralleling the coast. Continue walking south on it for half an hour to a 30m high cliff set back 50 m from the coast and above a pond. Guesstimated position in AGD 66 is 341200 E; 5363200 N."
acknowledgement="by Nick Hancock" history="" intro=""
name="The Velvet Underground" new="false"
rock="Coastal granite, 20m high" sun="" walk=""/><image
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name="Sweet Jane" new="false" number=""
stars="***">Climbs the pillar with a wide horizontal break at half height, on the left side of the cliff. Technical moves past six glued carrots. Nick Hancock. Feb, 2006.
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extra="" grade="26" length="25m" name="Heroin" new="false"
number=""
stars="**">1) 10m 26 Climb the very thin seam past two glued carrots to a belay on the right. 2) 15m 17 Follow the corner above trending left onto the arête to finish.Nick and Heather Hancock, Feb, 2006.
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extra="" grade="24" length="25m" name="Sunday Morning Direct"
new="false" number=""
stars="">Climbs the overhanging groove direct to the slab, instead of traversing in from the left. Nick Hancock Feb, 2007.
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extra="" grade="20" length="25m" name="I’ll Be Your Mirror"
stars=" *** ">Thin cracks on good wires then carefully up the easy slab above. Nick Hancock & Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="22" length="25m" name="Sunday Morning"
stars=" ** ">Follow the right trending diagonal off blocks to the flared vertical cracks. Follow these to a glued carrot and a thin move over a bulge. Climb up to a deep flared crack (4 Camalot) and another bolt on the final slab. Nick Hancock & Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="24" length="25m" name="Venus In Furs"
stars=" * ">Climb the brutal fist crack to shrubbery. Go left to another crack then back right to a black groove through the final tier. 4, 5 & 6 friend-sized cams essential. Nick Hancock & Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="26" length="25m" name="Waiting For The Man"
stars=" *** ">Climb a very thin crack up a prow past 4 glued carrots to another on the pocketed wall above. Nick Hancock & Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="18" length="25m"
name="I’m Beginning to See the Light"
stars=" ** ">Climb a right trending ramp (4 & 5 Camalot) to open grooves (4 glued carrots). Sarah Hedges & Nick Hancock Jan 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="19" length="15m" name="Black Angels Death Song"
stars=" * ">Near the top of the rocky gully on the right side of the crag climb a left trending crack to an easy finish. Nick Hancock & Sarah Hedges Jan 2004.</climb><text
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number="null.">Somewhere NW of Trial Harbour</text><text
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number="null."> From the campsite at the north end of Trial Harbor walk north along the coast for 30 minutes until a long blank wall blocks further progress.</text><climb
extra="" grade="17" length="10m" name="Tinsel Town" new="false"
number=""
stars="**">Climbs the L end of Goldrush Wall, on excellent holds just R of a wide crack, to finish up a groove. Nick & Heather Hancock, Ashley Mason, Jan. 2009. </climb><climb
extra="" grade="21" length="20m" name="Goldrush" new="false"
number=""
stars="***">Climb the immaculate dyke via three carrots to an easier finish via a crack. Nick Hancock & Ken Palmer, Jan. 2004.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="17" length="5m" name="Silver City" new="false"
number=""
stars="*">The arête down R of Goldrush, with poor protection. Ashley Mason, Nick & Heather Hancock, Feb. 2009.

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extra="" grade="22" length="15m" name="Only the Lonely"
new="false" number=""
stars="***">Located on a distinct square topped pinnacle set back from the sea, 10 minutes past Goldrush Wall, on the way to Wheel Bay. Climb the slab and sharp arête past five glued carrots and a No.5 Friend to a DBB. Nick & Heather Hancock, Feb. 2009.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="16" length="15m" name="Loner’s Rock" new="false"
number=""
stars="">Climb cracks to the R, to a ledge, then the wide crack to the summit and DBB. Nick & Heather Hancock Jan. 2009.</climb><climb
extra="" grade="23" length="7m" name="Pulpit Rock" new="false"
number="" stars="">Sits high on the hillside above Trial Harbour and approached from the Climes Track. Bridge up and climb via two carrots to a carrot belay on top. Nick & Heather Hancock, Ashley Mason, Feb. 2009. 

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