The Big Wall

USER COMMENTS

A couple of micros are handy, but I can't remember where
Goi Ashmore - 15/Mar/02

One big piece is useful to stick in the crack above the cave before committing to the crux moves up the wall to the right. Friend 4 or something a bit bigger will do.
Chris Shorter - 15/May/02

Reachy and a bit contrived at the top, number 4 friend essential, garden strimmer optional. Worthwhile nonetheless.
Tom Briggs - 21/Jun/02

Friend 4 my arse! I dragged the bloody thing all the way up the route ( and very good it was too ) to find 1. the top can be protected using almost any sized friend.
2. the top wall is a piece of piss anyway.
stuart - 04/Sep/03

The friend 4 placement is off route to the left in a grassy niche - it needs extending quite a bit. Cant see how anything smaller would fit unless you bury it deep in the crack. If you are feeling brave and ethical you can leave the friend 4 behind - there are reasonable small wire placements in a little horizontal crack at the foot of the crux wall. As for me I felt happier with the friend 4 in as I didnt think the top wall was a piece of piss (Maybe if your very tall it is!).
Steve Burns - 06/Sep/04

Thought this was an excellent route, with really nice moves. Forgot to take the No4 friend but couldn't find the placement anyway, settled for the small horizontal wires, which I though were OK. I think there is some confusion as to which cave is referred to in the description. The lower of the two recesses (least cave like in my opinion) is I think the one mentioned in the description as the cave near the top will take all manor of gear and the route turns out to over anyway.
karl walton - 23/Jul/05

Did the route last wekend and most of the route, especially the top was very dirty. Agree with the previous comment about recesses. I can only descibe the first as a ledge or niche and two of the crux reaches are gaining this and leaving it.
DaveL - 15/Jun/06