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A huge Easter Island statue of a buttress, perhaps the single most imposing bit of grit in the country, with routes to match. Valkyrie may just be the best VS on grit, the Direct is only marginally inferior and the sustained jamming on Matinee is glorious, especially for the uninitiated who usually get mauled! Guidebook page 52.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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Raven Rock Gully 20m. The deep and gloomy rift to a tight and scruffy exit through 'the manhole'. 3 user comments | 1 Stars | D |
2 |
Valkyrie Direct 28m. A long and elegant pitch up the steep jamming cracks in the arete. Climb the crack and the bulges to a rest at the base of... 10 user comments | 2 Stars Strong | HVS 5b |
3 |
Matinee 24m. The lower crack is almost always damp and usually smelly. Ignore this fact and jam up it to a (possible) stance on the... 3 user comments | 2 Stars Strong Pumpy | HVS 5b |
4 |
Valkyrie Top 50 A wandering climb of great quality - the archetypical 'must-do'!1) 4b, 15m. Climb the slabby groove to its top then... 53 user comments | 3 Stars Pumpy | VS 4c |
5 |
Northern Comfort 14m. From the tip of the Valkyrie flake, climb the wall past some useful flakes to a finish up the left arete; bold and very... 1 user comment | 2 Stars Reachy Fluttery | E6 6c |
6 |
Licence to Run 12m. The right-trending flakes in the wall above the Valkyrie stance are pumpy though good gear is available if you can stop! | 1 Stars Pumpy | E4 6a |
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Licence to Lust 12m. A counter-diagonal across the wall, utilising the same holds and runners in the central section at L2R. | 1 Stars | E4 6a |
