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These two buttresses are also known as Buttress Sixteen and Buttress Seventeen which is a little dull. Both are split at mid-height by a horizontal break and both have a selection of climbs that are on the borderline between short routes and highball problems. Guidebook page 173.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
1 |
Fearby 6m. Using a boulder, climb the face just right of the VDiff arete. | VS 4b | |
2 |
Stainthorpe's Wall 6m. Start left of the streak and move right past it to finish via a pocket and shallow groove. A Direct Start is V1 (5c). 1 user comment | 1 Stars | E1 5b |
3 |
Alan's Wall 6m. A direct finish to Stainthorpe's Wall utilising the thin flake. | 2 Stars Crimpy | HVS 5a |
4 |
Only Sixteen A worthwhile more direct start to Stainthorpe's Wall. | Technical Crimpy | V3 6a |
5 |
Fascionationby 6m. Enter the hanging groove and wobble up it using creaky finger-flakes to start. Can be done as a highball V3. | Fluttery | E2 5c |
6 |
Jug Handle Pull Up 5m. Step off the boulder and climb the left arete of the buttress. (The same arete is 4b without the boulder). | VD | |
7 |
Wall Centre 5m. The centre of the buttress to a reachy finish. | 1 Stars Reachy | VS 4c |
8 |
Happy Daze 5m. Start by the central arete and trend left up the wall to a finish on small pockets. | Crimpy | VS 4c |
9 |
Double Mantelshelf 5m. The stepped groove by a pair of swift mantels. | VD | |
10 |
Out on Bail 5m. Bridge up the shallow groove and then head up the wall using a tiny broken flake and a one-finger pocket. | Fluttery | HVS 5c |
11 |
Right Edge 4m. The right arete is quite a tease. | 1 Stars | HVS 5c |