Name |
Grade |
Type |
Ascents |
Rating |
Sector |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Closed Project (Supernatural)
|
1150
8b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Shaka
|
1100
8b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Scream
|
1050
8a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Don't Call Me Baby
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Sunnyside Up
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Fragile Existence
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Mole
|
950
7c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Don't rock the boat
|
950
7C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Forgotten dreams
|
950
7C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Jugs and Josephs
|
950
7C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Blue Diamonds and White Ice
|
900
7c
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Parklife
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Hard Euro Candy
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Coming Up For Air
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Catharsis
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Benson 'n Edges Sit-start
|
900
7C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Juseless
|
900
7C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Gripped sit-start
|
850
7B+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Dry ice
|
850
7B+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Voodoo Hoopoe
|
850
7b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Strange Attractor
|
850
7b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Majola
|
850
7b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Abflug
|
850
7B+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Neurotoxin
|
850
7B+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The pearl sit-start
|
850
7B+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Illearth Stone
|
800
7b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Cobalt Blue
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Chicken Run
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
King joker
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Benson 'n Edges
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Ruby In the Dust
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Phase Space
|
800
7b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Throw it on the ground
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Duan Sit-start
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Wrinkled egg sit-start
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Get up, stand up
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Pick your spot
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The pearl
|
800
7B
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Casualties of War
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Children of the Corn
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Outlaw Josey Wales
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
1L Brandy, 2L Coke, 3L Ford 7A+
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Duan
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Eurovision
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Big Yellow Flower
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
In Two Minds
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
All Or Nothing
|
750
7a+
|
DWS | 0 | |||
Wrinkled egg
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Good things happen when bad people go bouldering sit-start
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Ancestral ground
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
My hump
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Holy bouncing boilerplates Batman!
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Crap!
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Monkey business
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Too glued to be true
|
750
7A+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Strong Loops and Wild Horses
|
700
7a
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Scoobie Doo Goes Surfing
|
700
7a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Gripped
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Boys and Their Toys
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Prelude to the Wastelands
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Fencesitter
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Silent foot technique
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Night light
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Pacman
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Crank Prank
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Sashimi
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Chronic breakfast skunk
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Skunk fu
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Rock steady
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Night Shift
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Four stage rocket
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Shred the gnarl
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Uxbridge Road
|
700
7A
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Crystal Chronicles
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
The Relativity Puzzle
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Good Things Happen When Bad People Go Bouldering
|
650
6C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Inspector
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Myotonia
|
650
6C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Holy Purple Cannibals Batman!
|
650
6C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Resurrection
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Dwarf Kiddi
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Geek
|
650
6C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Self trepanation
|
650
6C+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Hang 'em High
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Vesper
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 1 | |||
Bolts Are For Babies
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Ring Route
|
600
6c
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
The Green Hadogenes
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Thylacine
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Dork
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Hot rod
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Eva Green
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The minion
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Grey Reaper
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Scorched Earth Direct
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Dream of White Horses
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
A Good Day for a Mantle Shelf
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Jack the stripper
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Lever advantage
|
600
6C
|
Boulder | 0 |
The area is access sensitive!
🔴 RULES
A permit is required for driving through the gates on Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays. Gate closes in the evening and you have to be out - large fine!! Please be out before the closing time, we don't want to create any unnecessary tension between climbers and the nature reserve authorities.
🔴 ACCESS
Paarl Rocks Nature Reserve is open all year round. Entrance is free during the week, or if you choose to park at the pay booth and walk up. But please note that you will be fined if you are not out by closing time. No entry 1 hour before closure time.
🚪 Entrance:
Monday - Friday: Free
Saturday - Sunday & Public Holidays: R40 per vehicle plus R15 per person
🚪 Gate closure:
Summer: 1 October - 31 March 07h00 - 19h00
Winter: 21 April - 30 September 07h00 - 18h00
🚗 DRIVE
From Cape Town follow the N1 for about 60km, taking the Paarl (R45) off ramp on the left. Turn left onto Main Road and drive for about 1.5km until you see the Paarl Mountain Reserve sign on the right hand side of the road. Turn left here onto Jan Phillips Mountain Drive (becomes a dirt road) and continue up for 1.9km to a T-junction. Head right and drive for approximately 4km along the winding road taking the first left you reach (from the T-Junction, drive for 1.7km for the Gladde Rock Parking on the left). Follow this up for 500m to the pay booth.
Go left at the pay booth for to reach (600m) the Two Cents Slab Parking on the right. Continue on to reach (1.7km) the Lower Parking amongst a cluster of pine trees, and head on further up to reach (2.3km) the Upper Parking.
To reach the Rear Parking go right at the pay booth for 400m and take the Nante's Dam turn-off left. Drive for 2.4km and take the first left for 600m and then left again for 300m to reach the Rear Parking.
🅿️ PARKING
For The Illearth and Scream Boulders, Euro and Cannonfodder Walls use the Lower Parking.
For the Arbor Cave, Hidden by Day Wall, Parklife Wall, Cobalt Blue Wall and Wonderland Wall the Rear Parking should be used.
For the Gladde Rock and Two Cents Slab use the parking specific to those two (see DRIVE for details).
For the rest of the areas use the Upper Parking as the path around there is generally good and central to most climbs on Gordon's and Bretagne Rocks.
🚶♂️The Walk-ins and Descents are found in the DESCRIPTION.