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The junction of the North West Face and the West Face presents one of the finest buttresses on Grit with a set of routes to rival anything that the Peak can offer. All the routes tend to be big powerful challenges at their grade and if you can tick the lot in a single day then you can be sure that you are climbing well. Guidebook page 104.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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North West Girdle 65m. A great horizontal outing. Start up Z Climb and follow the horizontal line of cracks and breaks. Stances are available in... 1 user comment | 3 Stars Pumpy | E1 5b |
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The Big Greeny Top 50 14m. A short fingery wall leads to bulges (large cams) which are tackled leftwards then right using the nostril-like pockets.... 7 user comments | 2 Stars Reachy Rounded Fluttery | E3 5c |
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Frankland's Green Crack Top 50 18m. A major classic, the luminous crack is usually dryer than it looks - pity about the pigeon poo. The final bulging section... 2 user comments | 3 Stars | VS 4c |
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Pulpit Corner 18m. Climb the tricky outer arete of the Pulpit to its top and a possible stance, then tackle the upper wall left then right. | 1 Stars Technical | E1 5b |
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Long Chimney Top 50 18m. The narrow rift is a well-scoured and impressive. The exposed outside exit is best and may be worth an extra star. 1 user comment | 2 Stars Graunchy | HVD |
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Wall of Horrors Start Using undercuts, leap for the beckoning horn. The wall just to the left is a good V8. | 1 Stars Reachy | V3 6a |
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The Wall of Horrors Top 50 18m. One of gritstone's finest. The leaning start up to the prominent horn proves tricky but the difficult and delicate pull... 2 user comments | 3 Stars Technical | E3 6a |
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All Quiet 26m. A superb hulking diagonal, from the jams on Wall of Horrors all the way to an exit up Crack of Doom. More pumpy than a... | 2 Stars Strong Pumpy | E4 6a |
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The Niche The direct entry all the way in is hard, from the right is easier. | 1 Stars | V2 6a |
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Western Front Top 50 18m. A butch outing that is 'only E2' for those who have done it a few times. From the sloping ledge in the corner, pull... 3 user comments | 3 Stars Strong | E3 5c |
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Great Western Top 50 18m. Perhaps Almscliff's most famous classic. The steep corner leads to the roof and a large spike, traverse left into an... 9 user comments | 3 Stars Strong | HVS 5a |
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Grand Illusion Top 50 12m. The pocketed roof above Great Western's traverse yields most easily to a dynamic approach. Finish up a short crack on... 1 user comment | 2 Stars Reachy Fluttery | E4 5c |
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Crack of Doom 12m. Bridge the groove of Great Western to the huge roof then escape rapidly out right to jugs and easy ground. | 2 Stars Pumpy | VS 4c |
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Retribution Rib Direct 10m. The sharp unprotected and precarious rib is more serious than life itself. | 1 Stars Fluttery | E5 5c |
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West Chimney 12m. The easiest route on the cliff and much used as a way down but mildly interesting for all that in a wandering kind of way.... 1 user comment | 1 Stars | M |
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Jess' Roof High up in the gully (reached by West Chimney) is a deep cave. This boulder problem crosses the roof to a fingery pull at the... | 2 Stars Strong Crimpy | V9 |
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The Nose 10m. The crack in the roof is a slippery struggle, the wall above is a doddle. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Rounded | VS 4c |
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The Nose Direct 10m. The thinner right-hand crack requires some proficiency in jamming to succeed (and avoid getting lacerated). Above the... | HVS 5b | |
