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<header id="1" name="Sand River" walk="10 - 50 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 Panopticon, 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 (about 60km NE of Hobart on the A3), turn left on the C318. After 3km, turn 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. <br/><br/>3. Follow the taped trail starting to the left of old logging track, down the hill through the bracken towards the river. After about 50m, the track splits (marked by two tapes on a tree) with one track leading off left (north) to the north end of the Firewall. Continue on down the hill on the other to the south end of the Firewall, and the Colosseum track. <br/><br/>4. For the Colosseum continue to follow the tapes down, firstly past Riverside Crag to the valley floor, then up the river for about 900m which is 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 right. Keep following the tapes upstream to where the cliff changes direction to face north and take the right fork of the stream. Follow the tapes up the hill to the steepness of the Colosseum, about 45 mins walk from the car.<br/><br/>5. The Panopticon is in the next valley to the south of the Colosseum, to the SE of the parking area. Walk down the old logging track from the car park till the track turns to the right. Veer off left and follow a taped line down to the creek and then straight up the hillside to the base of the cliff. The crag is the first major buttress to the left, about 30 mins walk from the car." camping="Camping would probably be a bad idea - stay in Orford." 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. Follow the taped track from the parking area (this track continues to the Colosseum).<br/>Routes are described from left to right.</text>
<climb id="17" stars="*" extra="Þ" number="1." name="Lucifer Direct. " length="18m" grade="21" fa="Stu Scott, Tony McKenny, Justin Otlowski May 2017">Left Hand side of the cliff. Arête with bouldery start.</climb>
<climb id="18" stars="" extra="Þ" number="2." name="Project stu" length="20m" grade="" fa="">3m left of the above. Slab to roof.</climb>
<climb id="26" stars="*" extra="9Þ" number="3." name="Glowing Embers" length="18m" grade="21" fa="O Gervasoni, May 2017">On the left end of the main overhanging 'Fire Wall'. Boulder up the short left arete then trend right on immaculate rock to a rest The the base of a pillar. Up to roof, and a strenuous pull on flakes.</climb>
<climb id="19" stars="***" extra="Þ" number="4." name="Firewall" length="18m" grade="26" fa="Garry Phillips, Apr 2017">A striking line on superb rock.</climb>
<climb id="28" stars="**" extra="Þ" number="5." name="Firestarter" length="18m" grade="24/25" fa="G Phillips May 2017">Steep climbing over a series of bulges.</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 50 minutes walk from the car. The rock is excellent, with some of the best steep sandstone in Tasmania.</text>
<text id="52" class="heading3">Superunknown Buttress</text>
<text id="53" class="text">Another 50m left of Terrastomp is a high vertical wall with a cave at the base.</text>
<climb id="54" stars="" extra="" number="6." name="Project - Jon" length="" grade="" fa="">The smaller buttress to the left of the wall.</climb>
<climb id="55" stars="" extra="" number="7." name="Project - Dave" length="" grade="" fa="">The left side of the wall.</climb>
<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="8." 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 is capped by an enormous roof.</text>
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<climb id="34" stars="**" extra="11Þ" number="9." name="Crossing the Rubicon" length="20m" grade="20" fa="Stu Scott and Tony McKenny, May 2017">A stunning line on great rock. The difficulties just keep on coming.<br/>Start at far right hand side of the cave. Climb up the hard bouldery corner (stick clipping the second bolt is the way to go) and hand traverse out left along the very lip of the roof. Up the thin crack to the overhang, with a sensational finish out to the left.</climb>
<climb id="50" stars="" extra="" number="10." name="Project" length="" grade="" fa="Stu and Tony">Line continuing from end of CTR traverse, then up middle of slab</climb>
<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>
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<climb id="29" stars="***" extra="Þ" number="11." name="No Name 56" length="15m" grade="25" fa="G Phillips May 2017">Through the small roof to the break. Then the wall above.</climb>
<climb id="30" stars="" extra="Þ" number="12." name="Garry Project " length="" grade="" fa="">Project <br/>The direct of no name 56</climb>
<climb id="14" stars="***" extra="Þ" number="13." name="The Orange Route" length="15m" grade="23" fa="Garry Phillips, Apr 2017.">On the most orange of walls in the main amphitheatre.</climb>
<climb id="48" stars="**" extra="Þ" number="14." name="Orange Route Right Hand Finish" length="15" grade="23" fa="G. Phillips, May 2017">From the small corner system half way up The Orange Route, traverse right along the break and up. More sustained but less cruxy than the Orange Route.</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>
<climb id="32" stars="*" extra="4Þ" number="15." name="Lions" length="7m" grade="17" fa="O Gervasoni, May 2017">The steep pocketed white wall to DBB under main overhang.</climb>
<climb id="40" stars="*" extra="8Þ" number="16." name="Fed to the Lions" length="15m" grade="24" fa="O Gervasoni, May 2017">From the DBB on Lions, power up the 45 degree overhanging wall above.</climb>
<climb id="57" stars="**" extra="" number="17." name="No Name 58" length="15m" grade="25" fa="Garry Phillips June 2017">The bulge to the left of Et tu, Brute</climb>
<climb id="49" stars="**" extra="Þ" number="18." name="Et tu, Brute" length="15m" grade="26" fa="Garry Phillips, May 2017">Campus start leads to some pretty awesome moves above.</climb>
<climb id="39" stars="" extra="Þ" number="19." name="OG Project" length="10m" grade="" fa="">The overhanging arete at the right end of the Black Sector.</climb>
<text id="58" class="heading3">Plebeian Wall</text>
<text id="59" class="text">Walk another 100m or so right of the Black Sector, over a bracken covered scree, to a steep prow and face. The first route takes a line up the prow.</text>
<climb id="60" stars="" extra="" number="20." name="Working Class Heroes (project)" length="" grade="" fa="The Plebs (aka Tony and Stu!)"/>
<climb id="61" stars="" extra="" number="21." name="Spartacus (project)" length="" grade="" fa="The Plebs "/>
<text id="35" class="heading2">The Panopticon</text>
<text id="36" class="text">Named after Panoptes, in Greek mythology; he was a giant with a hundred eyes – the views from the crag certainly are superb. Port Arthur Prison was modelled on the Panopticon - all seeing.<br/>Follow the tapes up the hill from the stream bed to a cairn and walk left along the crag base for 20m or so to the foot of the first major buttress. To the right of the cairn is apparently private land - there lie dragons so please keep off until access is established.<br/></text>
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<climb id="42" stars="" extra="7Þ " number="22." name=" Crime and Punishment " length="17m" grade="16" fa="Dave Stephenson, Stu Scott and Tony McKenny, June 2017.">Climbs the left hand arête.</climb>
<climb id="37" stars="*" extra="7Þ" number="23." name="First Offence " length="16m" grade="17" fa="Tony McKenny, Stu Scott and Dave Stephenson, June 2017.">Starts at base of thin crack, a couple of metres right of Arête.</climb>
<climb id="43" stars="*" extra="7Þ " number="24." name="Impeachment " length="17m" grade="18" fa="Stu Scott, and Tony McKenny, June 2017.">Climbs the steep wall a couple of metres right of First Offence, finishing up the arête.</climb>
<climb id="44" stars="" extra="8Þ" number="25." name="Special Prosecutor " length="17m" grade="18" fa="Stu Scott, Dave Stephenson and Tony McKenny, June 2017.">Climbs the right hand arête and trends right, sharing a bolt at mid height with Impeachment before climbing the steep head wall on the right.</climb>
<climb id="62" stars="**" extra="8Þ " number="26." name="Join the Dots" length="17m" grade="18" fa="Stu Scott, and Tony McKenny, June 2017.">A good alternative combination, at about the same grade, is to climb the first section of Special Prosecutor to the shared bolt, and finish up the top arête of Impeachment.</climb>
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