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Church Rock What the symbols
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Grid Ref: NZ026996   Aspect: N   Routes: 10   Max Length: 8   Average Length: 6 
Altitude: 320 mtrs   Walk in: 5 mins   Bike in: 1 mins   Bike out: 1 mins 
 
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A variety of approaches are possible. The crag can be reached from a descent from Simonside, but the obvious approach is from the forestry picnic site. Follow the red and yellow waymarked track west and the crag is rather conveniently signed.
 
General:
Two small sandstone buttresses in the wooded area below and to the north of Simonside. They can easily be combined with a visit to Simonside North Face, but by comparison the buttresses are poor fare. They are, in fact, hopeless.
Rock:  
Fell Sandstone Carboniferous, Dinantian
Overgrown
Routes/Bouldering:  
Routes:
All dismally poor, but P.C. Plod is recognisable as a route.
No recorded problems.
History:
Details of the early first ascents are unknown, however, P.C. Plod and Is That It were climbed by Karl & Graham Telfer in 1988 in readiness for the 1989 edition of the guidebook.