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<header access="To get to the cliff head towards Ben Lomond. Turn off the highway from Launceston towards the ski-field, after 1.5km turn right onto Ragged Jack Rd. Follow this uphill until you reach a road named RJ7, turn left into this and drive as far as you dare (Not that far in 2WD, but further in 4WD). Head up the steep 4WD track over O'Plains Creek, where the road bends to the right. Continue about 200m past the next left hand bend, to a long scree slope. From here, Anzac Cove is visible at the top of the scree. The 4WD track continues on for several km, passing several major cliffs, both on the left and right. Some of these have routes on them apparently, but there is major potential for new routes out there if you own a bomber 4WD or are prepared to walk for hours." acknowledgement="By Roger Parkyn, originally published in Craglets" history="" intro="Ragged Jack is a peak off the north west of Ben Lomond. There are many more routes than are listed here, but this is a sampler of the routes at the easy to find ANZAC Cove Buttress. The climbing is typical of this region - dolerite columns. The columns at Ragged Jack are very pure, and not more than 50m in height. There are no route descriptions but the lines speak for themselves and should be able to be found by referring to the topo (supplied by Bob McMahon)." name="Ragged Jack" rock="Alpine dolerite columns, single pitch" sun="All day sun" walk="30 min (minimum)" id="1"/><image noPrint="false" src="ragged jack map.png" width="" id="2"/><image noPrint="false" src="ben lomond ragged jack.png" width="" id="3">null</image><climb extra="" grade="18" length="" name="Sniper's Ridge" number="" stars="" id="4" fa="Mike Collie.">The arête on the lefthand end of Anzac Cove. </climb><climb extra="" grade="20" name="The Nek" id="5" fa="Robert McMahon.">Just right of Sniper's Ridge.</climb><climb extra="" grade="20" name="Chunnuk Bair" id="6" fa="Steve Moon.">Just left of C.E.W. Bean. </climb><climb extra="" grade="22" length="40m" name="C.E.W. Bean" id="7" fa="Robert McMahon, Feb 1984.">Climb the twin finger cracks - and some great bridging. </climb><climb extra="" grade="19" length="" name="Tin Trigger" number="" stars="" id="8" fa="Mick Ling.">Just right of C.E.W. Bean. </climb><text class="text" id="9">The final set of climbs are located on a piece of rock referred to as Turk's Pinnacle.</text><climb extra="" grade="21" name="The Landing" id="10" fa="Neale Smith."></climb><climb extra="" grade="21" length="45m" name="Blood and Iron" id="11" fa="John Fantini, Feb 1984.">Sustained finger locking and fine bridging (unrelenting grade 21) for 30m, followed by grade 19 jamming. </climb><climb extra="" grade="23" length="45m" name="Too Low for Zero" id="12" fa="John Fantini, Feb 1984.">The spearing sustained crack. Finger jam the first 25m until the crack blanks out completely. Bridge (crux) to a small 1cm wide hand hold, then stretch for flared jams and the awkward grade 20 finger crack for the final 15m. </climb><climb extra="" grade="21" length="48m" name="It's a Long Way from Tipperary" id="13" fa="G.Narkowicz, M.Ling, Feb 1984.">The fourth line from the far right - and the  offwidth of all offwidths. Brilliant face climbing (crux) for the first 10m leads to a nice but ever widening crack. The finger-crack is nice; the hand-crack is better; the fist-crack is bearable; the offwidth (no runners) is horrible!</climb>
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