Odin Head

Adventurous trad climbing area near Victoria Falls.

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Rock type Sandstone
Fragile when wet

Area description

Odin Head is a trad climbing crag with a great selection of crack climbs in the high teens to low 20's, all roughly 30-45m in length. Minimal bolts to be found here; many routes have double bolt anchors to assist in abseiling off however expect to sometimes use trees for abseils and gear based anchors to bring up the seconder.

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Approach

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Distance2.3 km
Elevation Change128 m
-33.58491, 150.27383
-33.58174, 150.29154

Routes

Grade contexts: Roped (Ewbank), Boulder (Heuco)

Route lengths: Lengths range from ~8 m to ~60 m. Most climbs are between ~30 m and ~40 m.

Route styles

23
Total
Trad

Grade bands

23

Odin's Love Glove

Corner crack leading into roof crack.

Trad20m★★★Classic
19

El Dorado

Mixed
Trad35m★★Very Good🔩2
20

True dreams

Trad40m★★★Classic
21

Dude where's my cam?

Mixed
Trad45m★★Very Good🔩4
22

El Guapo

Variant start to Sharp Shooter up the finger crack on the left.

Trad10mGood
22

Sharp Shooter

Trad40m★★★Classic
17

Master and the apprentice

Mixed
Trad45m★★Very Good🔩5
20

Errant Pupil

Mixed
Trad40m🔩2
15

Sated

Mixed
Trad60m🔩3
17

Hunger Games

Trad40m
16

Tower of song

Trad30m
22

Arachnarete

Mixed
Trad40mGood🔩6
19

Joe Blake

Mixed
Trad60m★★★Classic🔩2
16

Gully Basher

Mixed
Trad44m🔩3
21

Avarice

Trad10mGood
20

Position vacant

Mixed

The sharp arete across from Joe Blake. Climbs the blocky corner until you can traverse all the way left to the arete.

Trad40m★★Very Good🔩9
17

A bit on the side (Morelia’s Pilot)

Trad40m★★Very Good
19

High’s and Lowes

Mixed
Trad30m🔩6
16

Munch

Mixed
Trad50m🔩2
19

Mountain Goats

Mixed

Start as per Munch but traverse right into the wide crack..

Trad40m🔩2
19

The Mountain Goats Direct

Mixed
Trad38m🔩1
16

Beau Fixe

Trad8m
17

Rambling Man

Mixed
Trad40mGood🔩3