Ascents as trad by Stephen Parker

Mixed up the pitches a little. Guide says, there are three pitches. We managed to do three and never belayed where we should have. I lead the first and third pitches.

Ran both pitches together. Great route to work on your mantling technique.

Discretion is the better part of valour. It started raining as I was leading out on the second pitch. Down lead the route to under the roof. Waited half an hour to see if it would improve but it only got worse. Climbed down to some nearby rings and baild.

Good intro to Mt Stuart's rock.

Good route, pity about all the midgies flying about.

Much better than the original, if a little run out at the top.

Short but Excellent climbing with a very distinctive crux I can't get clean yet.

Much nicer in the daytime.

Great Climbing with an exciting step accross nothing...

Bouldery start, wasp nest in a handy pocket and a block the size of a small TV that moves. What more could you want...

Difficult blind bouldery start that leads to some great climbing.

A couple of desperate moves up the arete after clipping the ring.

Bouldery start with some awkward moves to a kick ass jug.

Reachy first clip, but otherwise well bolted for Giraween standards.

An exercise in trusting your feet.

Hard start, sharp flake with some fun moves and a sloppy topout.

Classic slab climbing. Seconded first pitch, onsighted second pitch.

the bucket holds almost make the 4 meters of offwidth climbing bearable.

Pleasant climbing up the left side of an Arete.

Way cool hand crack in a roof. With some exciting moves through it.

For some reason I thought it was 16-17. Any wonder it felt hard.

Only lead to the anchors at the tree. No reason why you couldn't climb it to the top.

Tough start and keeps you going for some time before you can start to recover.

Sweet climbing all the way up.

Moments of excitment scattered amongst the rests. Previously seconded (20030511).

Stella hand crack to start and the offwidth finish can be easily face climbed.

Hard start leading to easy ground.

Enjoyable chimney complete with arm bars.

Broken climbing at best.

Hardest 12 I've ever done. Quite desperate in places. Probably is more like 17 since the piller fell out.

Solid for the grade.

Good fun, using a variety of climbing techniques.

Previously seconded to the halfway ledge. It's lenght makes it an enjoyable outing.

Done with hexes and wires only, since Phil Box used such protection earlier that day.

Reasonable climbing with good gear.

Steer well clear of this overhanging offwidth with rotating chock stones.

Draws were already set on the first two bolts. I finished of the route placing the remainder of the gear.

Back cleaned the entire route so I could rap off Short and Sweet.

Had to untie half way up to get the rope around a tree so I could later rap and clean the route.

Worth a star.

OK but probably not worth the hike to find it.

OK as a varient finish to Mr B.

Cast of the ground as the rain was easing.

Nothing special.

Lead on hexes and wires. Some say it's the worst sandbag around but I didn't think it was that bad.

Got inspired while walking past it and just had to climb it. Quite good.

Pretty soft for the grade. Very nice crack protected face climbing.

Finally got good beta on the location of this route.

Was looking for Bad Company. Looked like a nice line in the area so I did it instead.

Varied crack climbing with few face holds to assist.

Plenty of face holds so crack climbing technique isn't a must.

Milked every rest, though the crux took some thinking.