Adjacent Areas
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Evening sun
Up and Down
20 minsWindy
A trio of interesting and clean buttresses with a good spread of grades, an excellent area for a first encounter with Crag Lough. Guidebook page 253.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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Spuggies' Gully 20m. The cleft in the crest of the buttress leads with interest to a choice of chimneys leading to a ledge with huge blocks and... 1 user comment | 2 Stars | VD |
2 |
Back Alley 20m. Start up the slope on the right, climb a short crack, then traverse left into the long chimney. Follow this until a... | 2 Stars | D |
3 |
Block Chimney 17m. On the left is a chimney with the expected item. Climb to and under it then move out right and climb the giant's... | 2 Stars | D |
4 |
Chariot Race 17m. Gallop up the front face of the tower, starting up a groove just right of the chimney and climbing out right to the arete,... | 1 Stars Pumpy | E3 5c |
5 |
Why Not Direct 22m. The long smooth-looking groove gives a fine pitch with some hard climbing in the lower section of the groove. | 2 Stars Pumpy | HVS 5b |
6 |
Why Not 22m. Climb the corner to a ledge then continue in the same line until the top of the huge flake is reached. Move left and... | 2 Stars | VS 5a |
7 |
Dexterity 20m. Start up the corner as for the previous two routes, but follow the ledge out to the right-hand arete. Climb this, trending... | 2 Stars | S 4a |
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Crescent Cracks 16m. Climb cracks and blocks to a niche then pull over the roof using the pair of curving cracks. Follow cracks to the top. | 2 Stars Technical Pumpy | VS 5a |
9 |
Raven's Tower 16m. Start as for Crescent Cracks to the niche, then move out right and climb the pleasant cracks in the right arete... 1 user comment | 2 Stars | VS 4b |
