Adjacent Areas
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260m to the right and beyond some poor quarried walls is the fine jutting buttress of The Cioch. Here are two adjacent areas with some varied and excellent climbing. As is usual on Curbar the routes all feel quite hard for the grade, offering a good selection of rounded holds and tough jamming cracks. The area is usually quiet. Guidebook page 289.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
1 |
King of Crookrise 8m. The short arete gives a neat little pitch with a tricky top-out. | 1 Stars Reachy Fluttery | E4 6a |
2 |
Cioch Left-hand 12m. The left-hand crack leads to a hard exit. Use the flakes on the right to gain the hanging chimney and an easier finish. | 1 Stars Rounded Fluttery | HVS 5a |
3 |
Flea Circus 14m. Climb the second crack to the ledge then move left round the arete to access the hanging flake. Up this to finish. | 1 Stars Technical | E2 5c |
4 |
Cioch Crack 12m. Jam the widening crack on the right to reach ledges. Squirm up the wide chimney/crack to easier ground then mantel between... 2 user comments | 2 Stars Pumpy Rounded Fluttery Graunchy | HVS 5a |
5 |
Cioch Wall 14m. Excellent but devious and harrowing at the grade. Traverse the wall left and climb the crack right of the arete. Move left... 1 user comment | 2 Stars Rounded Fluttery Graunchy | S 4a |
6 |
The Bear Hunter 12m. A direct line up the south-facing wall with a hard move to reach the short rounded crack. 3 user comments | 1 Stars Pumpy Rounded | E1 5b |
7 |
Lithuania 10m. Gain the hanging crack (the old left-hand finish to Tree Wall) from the left with iculty. | 1 Stars Reachy Rounded | E2 5c |
8 |
Tree Wall 10m. The cracks trend to the right and are surprisingly hard work, leading to an awkward exit. 1 user comment | 2 Stars Pumpy | HVS 5b |
9 |
Heather Wall 8m. The awkward crack leads to an easier tiny groove. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Pumpy | VS 4c |
10 |
Wall End 8m. The final crack is trickier than it looks. | Pumpy | VS 4c |