North Table Mountain Top Rope access

I’m a relatively new climber, comfortable setting up to ropes but not leading - looking to practice top roping before progressing… North table mountain ostensibly has a lot of top rope access routes - and it’s easy enough to walk above the route on the cliff.

however, I see essentially zero options (to my beginners eye) for natural anchors to rappel over the cliff edge and set up an anchor on the existing bolts. No trees, virtually no protruding rocks.

Am I missing something? How do you safely set a top rope anchor here without leading the route first?

You can reach many anchors from the top at North Table.  I have Top Rope soloed many routes there.  You can also find many places to place gear if necessary.

It's way too hot to be climbing at NTM right now, IMO. But if you want to set up top ropes, many (but not all) of the climbs have two bolt anchors just under the edge, no rappelling needed. You just need to poke your head over and see what's accessible.

Brown cloud, Trad lands, and MBA buttress all have top accessible anchors and it's easy to walk up to the top. At the far right side of Brown cloud, there is even an anchor on top of the rock you can use. Trad lands also has an anchor on a ledge that is easily accessed from the top. 

Be careful approaching the edge from above, as it's often very loose and you could knock stuff down. 

Prav Cwrote:

It's way too hot to be climbing at NTM right now, IMO. But if you want to set up top ropes, many (but not all) of the climbs have two bolt anchors just under the edge, no rappelling needed. You just need to poke your head over and see what's accessible.

Brown cloud, Trad lands, and MBA buttress all have top accessible anchors and it's easy to walk up to the top. At the far right side of Brown cloud, there is even an anchor on top of the rock you can use. Trad lands also has an anchor on a ledge that is easily accessed from the top. 

Be careful approaching the edge from above, as it's often very loose and you could knock stuff down. 

Thanks, extremely helpful and the exact info I was looking for.

Definitely too hot right now - discovered that when I failed to discover any accessible anchors.