Ride the Lightning Area

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Sport

Lots of sun!

Up and Down

30 mins

Abseil

Windy

This deep recess has been developed mainly as a bouldering area. The problems here are short, powerful and mostly hard and are included as they are often dry. Guidebook page 358.

Route (click for voting and user comments)		Symbols	Grade
1	Coming in a Rush A hard roof to start before trending rightwards across Chasm Groove to climb the wall. 2m to the right, the roof can be crossed...	Strong Crimpy	7b+
2	Fat Lip Squat start at a huge jug low on the left. Move up right along the lip of the roof before slapping up the hanging arete....	1 Stars Fluttery	V6
3	Chasm Groove The break in the crag angle above the pool on the ledge. Start to the right and traverse left above the overhang until the...	2 Stars Pumpy	E1 5b
4	Ride the Lightning A long boulder traverse from left to right.	2 Stars Strong Pumpy	V10
5	Drive By Tackle the big bulge to a high pointed jug 3m left of Juggernaut.	1 Stars Fluttery	V6
6	Juggernaut A boulder problem to link two jugs, over the largest roof in the cave. The right-hand start - Jack Knife - is the same grade.	Strong	V7
7	Techno Sketching Boulder up the blank groove 5m left of the seaward arete.	Strong	V6
8	Puddle Jumper Climb the right wall of the blank groove.		V5
9	Baby-faced Assassin A well-positioned steepy just inside the cave, starting via a short crack.	1 Stars Reachy Pumpy	7a+
10	Boongary Climb steeply up left to the easier upper wall.	1 Stars Fluttery	HVS 4c
11	Hip Hop Start up Boongary and then follow a small ramp right and make a powerful move over the roof. Finish up the clean slab.	1 Stars	HVS 5a
12	German New Order The hard wall 5m right of the cave to a juggy roof.	1 Stars Technical Crimpy	7b+
13	Blitzkrieg A hard and fingery problem with a crux at the roof. Old bolts.	Technical Crimpy	7b+
14	Big Brother Is Watching Some big pulls on jugs through the roof.	1 Stars	7a

Latest Comments

For THE PROMENADE

Atonement
"The large loose and dangerous resting jug/block has been removed from the top s..." 14/May

The Calling
"The bolt under the roof looks rusty from the ground but it's a solid stainless j..." 18/Apr

Rise of the Robots
"I think it's 7b+ but when I tryed it recently It felt hard again. So maybe it wa..." 26/Jan

Titter Ye Not Mrs!
"joel 'the route destroyer' perry pulled a rather large finishin pinch off just b..." 19/Aug

The Futurist 2002
"the hanger has fallen off one of expansion bolts higher up. but there is an easy..." 18/Aug

Grossville
"done! Amazing!" 17/Aug

Grossville
"rebolted with with glue ins. shares the same first bolt as spacewalk. a very goo..." 22/Jun

Boiling Point
"The second bolt needs replacing- it can be partially removed by hand." 14/Jun

Howling Stone
"Have done a new route/old project about 60m to the right of "The Incredible..." 05/Jun

Titter Ye Not Mrs!
"proper good! man i love promenade!" 01/Jun
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