Start from the big ledge about 10 meters to the right of Earl Grey.
Note: Some of the pitches on this route have been climbed before; some as variations to Teapot Wall and others as part of the old SA Alpine Club route. But Tea Bag described below gives a good continuous route of medium grade.
1. 18m (4a): Climb the corner to a ledge below a dark crack in the overhang. Pull up horizontally into the chimney from an awkward start, by standing tip-toe on a block. Move up past a chockstone and then up the crack to a ledge platform out on the right. (Teapot Wall now comes in from the left and proceeds up the continuation of this crack.)
2. 20m (4a): Do a short, alarming-looking traverse to the right, by first lowering oneself off the platform. Move to the right on an excellent finger-rail, using a few thin footgrips low down, to reach a large platform. Pull through the bulge, then climb a grey recess to a ledge below an orange face, which is the Teapot Wall pitch. Walk to the right to a line of easy looking chimneys. Climb the chimneys to the ledge at the side of a massive square block, which seemingly props up the whole cliff above.
3. 26m (5a): Climb up onto the block. From the top, pull up onto the undercut face into a little groove. Traverse to the right, stepping down at one point onto a sloping footgrip. Move across into a jam crack. Climb via awkward moves to a little overhang and exit to the right and up to the top.
Variation: 20m (4c): From the left-hand side of the big block, climb up the face below the orange recess and move past a tiny dassie-ledge into the left-hand of the two parallel cracks running up the face. Climb the crack nearly to the top, then move to the left to some good knobbles. Pull up diagonally to the right to stand on these, then reach up through the bulge to the top.
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