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<header id="1" name="Sand River" walk="10 - 40 minutes." sun="Sunny" rock="Sandstone 15 - 30m high." acknowledgement="" intro="Sand River was discovered in 2017 by Jon Nermut and Dave Humphries and has a lot of potential for routes on surprisingly solid sandstone, in fact some of the best sandstone in Tasmania. <br/>The crags are on public Forestry land. The public land extends as far south as the next valley south of The Colosseum (which is also full of rock, mostly slabby), but further south than that it's private. Don't jeopardise access by exploring, climbing or developing private land without previously negotiating access with the landowners." history="" access="1. Drive to Buckland, turn left on the C318. Next turn right onto Sand River Rd. About 8km along this the road takes a sharp left land turn, with some dirt tracks coming off it.<br/><br/>2. Take the right hand sandy track. You can drive along this for another 500m before it heads down hill if you have clearance, otherwise park at the start. Start walking and follow the track down the hill until you notice an orange tape. Follow the tapes, contouring across the hill, until they head down to the river bed on the upstream side of Riverside Crag. The Firewall is to the north west of here.<br/><br/>3. Follow the tapes up the river upstream for about 900m, its surprisingly easy walking. Once you're down in the river bed you can't see much, but you will get glimpses of the west facing slabby cliffs up to the R, keep following the tapes upstream to where the cliff changes direction to face north, and then head up the hill to the steepness of the Colosseum." camping="Would probably be a bad idea." autonumber="true"/>
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<text id="7" class="heading2">Barbecue Crag</text>
<text id="8" class="text">From the main road take the left fork for a few hundred metres to an open area. This quite small crag is downhill to the left. There are no routes here yet, but it's quite close to the car.</text>
<text id="3" class="heading2">The Firewall</text>
<text id="4" class="text">A beautiful little crag of steep red and orange rock. This is straight downhill from the parking area towards the river, and sits maybe 50m above the river. It needs a taped track to it.</text>
<climb id="17" stars="" extra="Þ" number="1." name="Project stu" length="20m" grade="" fa="">Left Hand side of the cliff. Arête with boulders start.</climb>
<climb id="18" stars="" extra="Þ" number="2." name="Project stu" length="20m" grade="" fa="">3m right of the above. Slab to roof.</climb>
<climb id="19" stars="***" extra="Þ" number="3." name="Firewall" length="18m" grade="26" fa="Garry Phillips, Apr 2017">A striking line on superb rock.</climb>
<text id="5" class="heading2">Riverside Crag</text>
<text id="6" class="text">Riverside Crag is a series of short walls to the south of the junction of Sand River and the fork that heads up towards the Colosseum. You pretty much go past the northern end of it on the current taped track to the Colosseum. It's a bit shadier and mossier than the other crags, but there is potential for several good routes here, and it's not that far from the car.</text>
<text id="9" class="heading2">The Colosseum</text>
<text id="10" class="text">The Colosseum is a very steep north facing crag about 40 minutes walk from the car. The rock is excellent, with some of the best steep sandstone in Tasmania.</text>
<text id="11" class="heading3">Terrastomp Buttress</text>
<text id="12" class="text">Head around left from the main amphitheatre, past the scramble up to the top, to the next bit of good rock.</text>
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<climb id="13" stars="**" extra="4Þ" number="4." name="Terrastomp" length="10m" grade="19" fa="Dave Humphries, Jon Nermut, Apr 2017.">The lovely short arete. The first route at Sand River.</climb>
<text id="20" class="heading3">The Cave Sector</text>
<text id="21" class="text">The left hand side of the Colosseum forms a very steep cave.</text>
<text id="15" class="heading3">The Orange Sector</text>
<text id="22" class="text">Around the middle of the Colosseum, on either side of where the creek flows down, is a sector of beautiful orange rock.</text>
<climb id="14" stars="**" extra="Þ" number="5." name="The Orange Route" length="15m" grade="23" fa="Garry Phillips, Apr 2017.">On the most orange of walls in the main amphitheatre.</climb>
<text id="23" class="heading3">The Black Sector</text>
<text id="24" class="text">The right hand side of the main Colosseum area is a mainly black wall with a white face covered with pockets to start.</text>
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