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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 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. 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. <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 an hour's 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="Þ" number="3." name="Project - Owen" length="" grade="" fa="owen">owens project</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="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="6." 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. The next route starts at the right hand side.</text>
<climb id="34" stars="***" extra="11Þ" number="7." 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/>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>
<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="29" stars="***" extra="Þ" number="8." name="No Name 56" length="15m" grade="25" fa="G Phillips May 2017">Through the small roof to the break. Then the wall above. Head out left to finish. The rock is exceptional.</climb>
<climb id="30" stars="" extra="Þ" number="9." name="Garry Project " length="" grade="" fa="">Project <br/>The direct of no name 56</climb>
<climb id="14" stars="**" extra="Þ" number="10." 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>
<climb id="32" stars="*" extra="4Þ" number="11." name="Placeholder" length="7m" grade="17" fa="O Gervasoni, May 2017">The gently overhanging white wall to DBB under roof. One for the lover of pockets.</climb>
<climb id="40" stars="" extra="8b" number="12." name="Placeholder Extention" length="15m" grade="" fa="">OG Project.Tough bouldery sequence leads into ridiculous overhang.</climb>
<climb id="39" stars="" extra="" number="13." name="OG Project" length="10m" grade="" fa="">The overhanging arete at the right end of the Black Sector.</climb>
<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 50m 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="" number="14." name=" Arête (Project)" length="17m" grade="16" fa="">Left hand arête.</climb>
<climb id="37" stars="" extra="8Þ" number="15." name="First Offence (Project)" length="16m" grade="17" fa="Tony & Stu">Up the buttress.</climb>
<climb id="43" stars="" extra="" number="16." name="Impeachment (Project)" length="9m" grade="18" fa="Tony, Stu">Wall</climb>
<climb id="44" stars="" extra="" number="17." name="Special Prosecutor (Project)" length="17m" grade="17" fa="Stu, Tony">Right hand arête</climb>
<climb id="45" stars="" extra="" number="18." name="Justin's Climb (Project)" length="18m" grade="16" fa=""/>
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