Routes in Bell Supercrag

A short, steep and fierce corner with two solid fistjams separated by the obvious ‘windscreen’ feature. Last bolt is hard to clip. Consider taping up if you’re anticipating having an epic

Don’t bring a light belayer, as you might end up on the ground! Steep and gymnastic

Up following flake to overhang.

Just left of Jingle Bells. A few thin moves once you get past half way.

Shared 1st bolt with TT then straight up the oranage wall.

Start at tree, then left.

Head left and up. Hard move at 4th bolt. Then nice big moves to top. Lower-offs added 25/04/2018.

Right of the leaning left facing corner. This is the harder right hand start. Sandy and Snappy !

Nicer and easier start to BE

The obvious trad corner crack (a few metres left of Bell End in case you miss it).

Up corner to below roof, build a nest of small gear then head right to arête, around it and up to ledge. Gear here is not the best but up and over to the left is better. Up to below next rooflet then right and up to anchors.

Cams, C3's, wires.

Big span needed on this one...

The first route at Bell Supercrag! Up the open corner for 2 bolts then head rightish. Reachy and committing moves. Classic.

Up steep corner for 2 bolts, then follow the left line of bolts thru the open corner.

Start just left of WP. Up the thin steepnees and then join into THC for last easy moves to the top.

A fairly crucial crimp snapped off in Jul 2018, it is likely much harder than 26 for short people.

Start up the flake, and up to tricky headwall. Good !!

Start as per SD. Pull on to wall and tricky traverse left under the roof (long draws help), turn the lip and on to the face. Follow the seam, then easy flake and jugs to anchors.

Not an obvious (or lovable) start. Hard moves through the roof, with a second tricky bit right before the anchor.

Yet another roof climb from the house of Wishart. Hard climbing through the roof to the right of the tree rewards you with a somewhat relaxing paddle up the short headwall

Through thuggy roof and onto the wall. Move hard right (don't continue up the arete) and continue up the nice pumpy wall.

A great and sustained linkup. Start up the first 3 bolts of Paint God, clip a new 4th bolt and do a hardish move to join Games Without Frontiers just in time for its crux. Then step left and finish up Apple Pie.

Kind of an obvious linkup with some bolts that are otherwise undescribed. Up arete as for Autophagocytosis, but where it goes L via ridiculous reach, go straight up wall to Frontiers (middle) anchors.

Hard start then pumpy, rising right traverse. Given that half the route is a 3 star classic and the bottom half isnt half bad (with the exception of putting 5th draw on) , it deserves attention. Sliding the first two draws in the roof down to your belayer as you pass them will illiminate rope drag issues later on.

Starts as for Cavity Search then head right at the first roof. Nice upper wall.

Steep roof start past a creaky pinned flake to a vague rest. Continue up the semi-steep wall via two cruxs.

Hardish, give yourself 26 for the direct finish

Steep long boulder start to a hanging slab and some easier climbing to a ledge. Sweet, interesting moves from the half ledge to the top. Bolted on my 30th birthday.

Hard start into crack and then continue to move diagonally up tending rightwards.

Steep, with a hard start and exciting finish. Start up CZ for a few moves, then head right and up. At third bolt, step into the corner and continue up the face following bolts, using the corner as necessary.

Popular. Up and left along the jug rail for four bolts then up with the crux right at the end. Short but action-packed.

The route immediately left of Crumple Zone. Edits welcome if you know the name and/or history!

Stick clip high first bolt then jump to the good start hold, pull up into the left of the creepy roof eyes and reach through the roof boulder.

Good holds in odd spots finish off this punchy little number

Start as for Does My Bum Look Big On This? then at the lip climb up and right via a hard pocket boulder on the stonker head wall. I promise that I didn't chip that pocket, 100% natural.

Great route, with a hard leftwards traverse out the roof, then some of the best rock at bell for the slick headwall. Fixed draws in the roof make it an easy clean.

Diabolical moves through the roof at the start, then easier climbing on great rock

Bouldery fun start to a nice head wall climb.

Right of 'Rhubarb Crumble'. Streno start

Undercut start onto slightly overhanging wall past mantle trending left to anchors. Some prefer to stick clip the second bolt.

Starts 1m L of Rhubarb Crumble. A couple of sharp holds down the bottom and a great reachy crux up top. Finish at RC anchors.

This is a great little climb with some very cool holds, especially early on. Right of Jigger Jeff; solid start and interesting moves. Moves out right and up.

Traverse rightwards on slab to ledge, hand traverse left then up steep jugs. A lot of people do the slab traverse and lower off the last ring on the slab, about 21

Up JJ to fixed biner on the lip of the ledge. (someone has stolen the biner)

Tricky steep corner flakes with a great finish.

Left of Belayers Root with a couple of moves towards the top.

Far end of ropes with triple belay. Up short wall then out the roof cracks to turn the lip and finish up steep prow. Backjump to clean.

Steep start then traverse left along the big horizontal then to a hard sequence below the top roof.

Big move at the start to a good but small hold then steep climbing to a lay down rest. The mid crux is all about some double undercling madness. Steep finish with big moves on big holds. Perhaps add a few grades if you are under 6 foot

One of the best routes at Departures. Another of Bell's classic 30's.

After the tricky and hard start good holds lead to a mid height rest where this little number steps up a notch. A couple thin moves lead to the last jug before the long and sustained top section where good hard moves and poor feet will have you screaming to the top of the wall.

The major flake feature in the middle of the wall. Same start as H.H. Some dubious rock down low then great moves from the mid height rest.

Start at big flake and head up and right over the project up the steep section to the sit down rest. Continue with trickery up the blank overhanging corner and over the thin final roof.

The long term project of Steve, he's been actively trying the from time to time so you can imagine when it goes it will be the hardest route at Bell…?

Tackle the hard and under-graded start as for Steve's project for 3 bolts, then head right and up. Ponder your position from the bird ledge then slab, yes slab moves up the sidepull flakes and victory jugs. A long draw at the base of the box roof helps the rope run.

Mostly easy first half leads to a dyno out the lower roof (requires a long sling or 2), clip a hidden chain, then up the sustained second half with a difficult sequence in the upper roof. Best cleaned by reversing to the first anchor.

Unusual and absolutely desperate moves through the mid-height roof.

Awesome pumper. Face, roof, then however you like up the headwall, all the options have been done so use the holds, or don’t, whatever.

Tricky slab start left of Feisty Phasmid above a small tree. Funky moves linking flakes up wall to a rest then up and out through a roof to steep headwall boulder problem.

Weird move to get started, hard at top of wall, then the crux in the roof.

Good climbing, add a grade if you crank past the anchors to jugs on the lip.

Starts directly up from where the rope railing starts. Has a couple of thin moves and a hard clip.

Just left of FL starting at orange flake. Up flake, traverse left across break to stance - then up technical wall above.

Funky orange radness for 3 bolts to rest, then easier pumpy jugs to the top of the cliff.

The first two bolts of this route have been removed, do FL instead. Or a long stick clip to the third bolt.

Short roof to start the swing up to the wall on slopey jugs, varied climbing with a committing move up high.

Start at juggy prow and up wall to ledge then try to find the crux holds in time.

A surprisingly long section of steep and juggy climbing that is fairly rough on the skin - but this might allow you to still hold on when totally pumped!

In the middle of crag. Up wall and out the roof on flakes etc before heading rightwards to finish. The climb now has permadraws and only needs quick draws for the 1st, last and anchor bolts. This is like overhung gym climbing at Bell.

Start up Body Blow for 3 bolts then traverse left finishing at Pelorus Jack anchors

climb straight into frustrating roof boulder problem then head leftwards towards another hard move before exiting to anchors

Alternate start to Pelorus Jack. starts in corner on small holds for 2 rings then joins P.J.

Start on ledge then jug leftwards and up with a slopey crux at the lip of the roof, keep pumping the jugs up the steep head wall.

24 climbing to ledge then wrestle with the holds and the bad feet to the anchors.

Technical hard start leads to a rest, then an even harder crux and steep finish.

Action packed route up the arete right of blow. Big start move then hold on through some steep moves to a ledge. Hard face moves follow then great jugs to the top. If the first move is to big then start up Blow and traverse across.

Popular, with a hard start that is either dynoed out right, or tackled via small holds on the left. Second half finishes up a short section of attractive rock on good holds.

The Blow extension. From the anchors of Blow - continue up and leftwards to lower off at the top of the cliff.

Start left of tree. Straight up till it gets easy then rightwards to shared lower off with BO. Stay left of the bolts for 22

Bit of a thin move about 1/3 of the way up

Tricky start and exciting finish, there is a hidden bolt before the last move.

The lower section has some cool pockety holds.

The second last bolt on Araldite is next to the anchors on this one so you might as well keep going to the top of the cliff and clip another (hidden) bolt on the way and lower off Araldite.

Pleasant climbing with a slightly steeper section above the little roof.

Right of ferny crack; mostly straightforward with plenty of holds and a little move three quarters of the way up.

No doubt the usual crew of first ascentionists will lay claim to having done this previously. Unfortunately the fractured nature of the slab in this section leaves little in the way of redeeming features for a proper climb . . .

Start below ferny crack, head up using the fracture and features either side of the cracked slab for progression and protection. Use belay of neighbouring route and top out and find a tree.

Originally lead with improvised protection consisting of knotted slings and prussicks, but plenty of modern gear is available.

The right side of the juggy orange streak.

The left side of the juggy orange streak.

A couple of moves to get started. Right of BF.

The furthest left climb at The Blowhole. Tricky start with a nice flake up high.

Steep start then some reachy sustained moves with an open book corner to reward the effort.

A few metres R of Plumtastic. Great route with a mix of difficulties. Up the wall with some welcome rests to the mini cave then try to finish. Quite engaging!

Another steep start. Enjoyable moves the whole way, finishing on the fairly obvious overhung prow.

The L-most route on the sector. Start steeply for a few bolts, then trend rightwards to the crux. Finishes just left of the upper prow the Plumtastic finishes on.

The far left hand edge of the cliff. Essentially a one sequence wonder with a tricky V4/V5 boulder problem crux in the middle. Clip the first bolt on "How Much is a Duck Worth" then move left and follow the line of bolts with increasing difficulty to the anchors.

Scarily loose, should probably finish under the roof.

Another nice warm up for Duck Wall.

Links Gosling into HMIADW via the obvious leftward continuation and a few interesting moves in the middle. Climbs well.

Left of 'Duckling'.

Direct line, right of Gosling.

Left of Out For A Duck. Nice wall climbing with a fun juggy finish.

Start up 'Out for a Duck' until the roof section then finish up 'Duck Tits' after traversing readily left. A link up but worthwhile and avoiding the crux finish.

Nice face to steeper hard glued up finish.