Adjacent Areas
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Afternoon sun
Level
20 minsWindy
This complex area consists of a series of smaller walls and buttresses scattered up and down the hillside. The lowest buttress with The Brain is always popular and the Diet of Worms area is frequented by the hard-core. Guidebook page 294.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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The Brain 18m. Climb the slabby lower wall trending right - no gear - to the base of a groove (possible belay). Climb the groove to... 11 user comments | 2 Stars Fluttery | VS 4c |
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Mensa 14m. Climb the centre of the slab to reach the left-hand arete. Boldly finish up this. A perplexing problem for most. 1 user comment | 2 Stars Reachy Fluttery | E6 6b |
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Oblongata/Amphitheatre Chimney 16m. A long outing up the rifts to the right of The Brain, both are awkward, a stance can be taken on the midway ledge. | HS 4b | |
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Birthday Crack 8m. Thankfully the imposing fissure is easier than it looks! | 1 Stars Pumpy | VS 4c |
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King of the Swingers 8m. Climb the wall left of the arete to a pocket (gear) then make a desperate long move left to finish. | 1 Stars Reachy Technical | E5 6c |
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King Louis 8m. Start as for the previous route to the runners then make crucial moves up and right to a final mantel which has some... 1 user comment | 1 Stars Technical Fluttery | E6 6c |
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Diet of Worms 10m. The arete is approached from the left. A Friend 4 protects the final difficult moves. 6 user comments | 2 Stars Rounded Fluttery | E4 6a |
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Slackers 10m. The direct to the arete is bold, dynamic and elegant. The short may need to hand traverse the sloper under the roof. 2 user comments | 2 Stars Pumpy Fluttery | E6 6b |
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Birthday Groove 8m. The groove on the right is a pig to enter but eases above. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Technical | E1 5c |