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A magnificent feature, a wide wall of impeccable rock topped off by a rolling wave of rippled sandstone. All the routes that climb to and through the feature known as the Wave are well worth doing. The area is not very popular; though this is more to do with grades than quality. Guidebook page 315.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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The Shiner A short lived battle with the bulges. Continue to the top at VS. | Strong | V1 5b |
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The Skate Undercut leftwards then stretch up and right to a break and poor jams. Finish direct more easily. | Pumpy Graunchy | V2 5c |
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Flying Fish Use the undercut to reach crusty flakes then move left to a sloper. Finish more easily above. The fingery wall just to the... | 1 Stars Technical Rounded | V3 6a |
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The Sting 10m. Follow the trio of finger-flakes up the wall by tricky climbing then tackle the bulges on rounded holds with difficulty. | 2 Stars Crimpy Rounded Fluttery | E3 6a |
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Honeycomb Wall 10m. The bubbly wall is climbed to the break where an escape into The Sting is possible. | 1 Stars Technical Crimpy | V10 |
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The Manta Top 50 10m. The superb and elegant curving flake looks easy enough until you get on it, at which point it proves to be both strenuous... | 3 Stars Pumpy | E3 6a |
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Vienna The famous dyno has become very worn through over-use. | Banned | V8 |
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Rising Damp 20m. The traverse is a taxing stamina problem with sustained difficulties as far as the sandy hollows, then an easier finish. | 2 Stars Pumpy | E4 6b |
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Inner Space 12m. Start through the right-hand end of a diagonal overlap and continue up the wall to reach the break. Move right a metre or... | 2 Stars Technical Rounded Fluttery | E5 6b |
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The Wave 14m. A classic, the second route to breach the Wave. Climb the white flakes to their top, then make difficult moves up to reach... | 3 Stars Reachy Crimpy Fluttery | E5 6a |
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High Tide 16m. Climb The Wave to the break then head strenuously leftwards until above the sandy hollows on Rising Damp. Finish directly... | 2 Stars Pumpy Rounded | E5 6a |
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Captain Haddock Thin moves up the wall right of the white flake. | 1 Stars Technical Crimpy | V5 6b |
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Rough Passage 14m. The tough wall leads past two old bolts to the break. Swing left for three metres to exit via a scoop, with difficulty. | 3 Stars Technical Crimpy Fluttery | E6 6b |
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Poseidon Adventure Top 50 12m. A fine climb, the first to breach the Wave's defences. A right-trending line leads to a worrying stretch for the break.... 1 user comment | 3 Stars Crimpy Fluttery | E4 6a |
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The Bends 12m. Climb the wall, trending slightly leftwards past a diagonal undercut, to reach a shallow scoop with difficulty. Exit via... | 1 Stars Technical | E4 6b |
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Green Crack 11m. The crack in the corner is an adventure. It sees fewer ascents than most of the E5s hereabouts. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Graunchy | HVS 5b |
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Rip the Lip 24m. It had to be done - the pumpfest, linking the top of Green Crack with the finish of The Wave. The difficulties are... | Pumpy | E6 6a |
