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The best climbing on the Clouds is on the third lump. Rubberneck and Appaloosa Sunset are the best but Crabbies Crack and Flower Power are not much less worthy. If you are into gritstone at its most technical then the well-named Who Needs Ready Brek? should give food for thought! Guidebook page 60.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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Glass Back 6m. The awkward left-hand fissure in the main buttress. | Graunchy | VD |
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Elastic Arm 6m. The wide crack in the upper half of the face can be gained from the left and is a nightmare of a thrash. A Curbar refugee. | 1 Stars Fluttery Graunchy | E1 5b |
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Persistence Finesse up the thin flakes above the lip of the overlap. Escape left or get some gear thrown up and have a go at ..... | 1 Stars Crimpy | V3 6a |
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Sands of Time 6m. Climb Persistence to the break and step right. The blunt nose above gives a (much) more serious continuation. | 1 Stars Technical Fluttery | E4 6a |
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Who Needs Ready Brek? 8m. The grade has been the cause of some controversy. Start up Persistence and follow the unbelievably-thin break rightwards... 12 user comments | 2 Stars Technical Crimpy | V10 |
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Cloudbusting 8m. A technical test-piece, although less so than Ready Brek. Start left of Rubberneck and climb the wall diagonally leftwards... 4 user comments | 2 Stars Reachy Technical Crimpy | E4 6b |
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Rubberneck 14m. Follow the superb central crack with good gear and fine sustained climbing - the start is rather perplexing. At the top of... 4 user comments | 3 Stars Pumpy | HVS 5a |
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Appaloosa Sunset Top 50 16m. Quality face climbing with a bold central section. Climb the right arete of Rubberneck (a highish runner is permissible)... 3 user comments | 3 Stars Fluttery | E3 5c |
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Eclipsed Peach 16m. The direct start to Appaloosa is technical and bold until holds on the regular route are reached. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Technical Fluttery | E4 6a |
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Laguna Sunrise 14m. Climb to the right of the overlap then head up and left with great difficulty (bold and tricky to read with only marginal... 3 user comments | 2 Stars Technical Crimpy | E6 6c |
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Crabbies Left-hand 16m. The flakes to the left of the fine crack are sustained and awkward to protect. A more direct start is Bakewell Tart - E2... 1 user comment | 2 Stars Pumpy | HVS 4c |
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Crabbie's Crack 16m. A classic jamming crack. Gain the fissure awkwardly and follow it to its end. Finish up the exposed arete on the right -... 5 user comments | 3 Stars Pumpy | HVS 5a |
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Flower Power Arete 14m. Unbalanced but the lower section has some excellent climbing and the upper section is not without interest. Climb the rib... 2 user comments | 2 Stars Reachy Graunchy | E2 5c |
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Icarus Allsorts 14m. Struggle with the roof crack if you must (or walk round) then from the block balance out left then climb the slab to the... 2 user comments | 2 Stars Fluttery | E4 6a |
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The Bender 6m. The short thin crack in the back right-hand corner of the bay. | 1 Stars Pumpy | VS 4b |
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Tim Benzadrino 6m. Cimb the short intense wall above a poor landing. | Fluttery | E3 5c |
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The Little Flake 8m. The little flake on the right is inclined to be luminous and is an awkward tussle. Not one for your new mountain wear. | HVS 5a | |
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Geordie Girl 8m. The front face of The Big Flake is climbed by precarious laybacking and delicate smearing. Hard and scary. | Rounded Fluttery | E3 5b |
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The Big Flake 8m. The flake is really more of a groove-cum-chimney thing and excellent (if you like that kind of thing) but exhausting. 2 user comments | 1 Stars Graunchy | HS 4b |