Garden Buttress Rock Climbing
Elevation: | 825 ft | 251 m |
GPS: |
22.27905, 114.20668 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
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Shared By: | Bob Moseley on Mar 10, 2019 | |
Admins: | Brian Boyd, Nate Ball, Dan Flynn |
Description
Garden Buttress is a neighborhood alternative to Monkey Buttress, albeit much smaller. It’s in the forest on the quiet north slope of Siu Ma Shan above Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island. Like Monkey Butt and Black Crag, it’s composed of that beautiful Mount Butler Granite. Friction galore. It was developed with a climbing-gym sensibility: the 8 routes are short, steep, well-protected, comfortably close together along a single continuous wall, and with carabiner anchors to eliminate the hassle of threading rap rings on the final lower. And the “Garden Path” deposits you painlessly at the roomy base without any awkward scrambling.
Find more information at hongkongclimbing.com.
Getting There
Details for Braemar Hill Road Trail Head Approach (see numbered photos on beta sheet): Pass through gate (1) and after a short level section, trail ascends steeply, past a couple of minor intersections (2,3), to its much more substantial intersection with Sir Cecil’s Ride, a level dirt path (4). Turn left and traverse around the hill for ca. 200 m until a set of stairs appear on your right (5). Ascend this narrow, paved trail a short distance to the top and its intersection with trail to Morning Walkers’ Garden (6). Turn west and ascend gradually for ca. 200 m to the Morning Walkers’ Garden. Pass through the entrance gate (7) and wander to the back of the park, up 2 short sets of steps. Warm up on the chin-up bar on the way by. Descend a short distance to an abandoned catchwater ditch, which is now a well-travelled trail. Follow the “Garden Path” across the mountainside for about 300 m to base of climbs.
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