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Grade Route Gear style Popularity Crag
Trad
13 Black Sheep

Follow the narrow chimney beside the arete to a leaning crack.

FA: Daryll Thomson, 1973

Trad 13m Britten Crag
17 Kingfisher

Climb a prominent corner, passing a roof halfway up to the right. Bolted crux.

FA: Neil Sloan, 1993

Mixed trad 16m, 1 Britten Crag
21 The Quiet Earth

Start up the steepening wall a metre left of the corner, move slightly left at the bulge, and finish at the top crack. Loose rock and minimal protection.

FA: Bill McLeod, 1992

Trad Britten Crag
15 Rabid

Up the corner.

Trad 14m Britten Crag
15 Rockadile

Face crack with very good pro. There is an optional bolt after the ledge but quite useless as the two last meters are just a walk to the anchor.

FA: Neil Sloan, 1993

Mixed trad 14m, 1 Britten Crag
17 The Mount Pleasant Plucker

Mixed climb. Share the first high bolt of BBB. Stay left of the bolt, then clip the second bolt and place a small wire before running out for the top anchor.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1995

Mixed trad 14m, 2 Britten Crag
11 Call Of Duty

A few metres right among the bush lawyer.

FA: Lindsay Main, 1974

Trad Britten Crag
12 Micro

Short right-facing corner crack around the arete.

FA: Lindsay Main, 1981

Trad Britten Crag
19 Rockweiller

A short wall two metres right, with a left-leaning crack.

FA: Neil Sloan, 1993

Trad Britten Crag
18 M.A.D. Goes Ape

A wide crack around the arete, left of the bushes.

FA: Neil Sloan, 1993

Mixed trad 2 Britten Crag
18 The Lonely Sea And The Sky

A couple of metres left of the arete. Originally soloed, so probably has no pro.

FA: Lindsay Main, 1980

Trad Britten Crag
16/17 Rough Justice

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

FA: Lindsay Main, 1973

Trad Britten Crag
17/18 Ride My Face

Start at the left side of a vegetated corner.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1997

Mixed trad 15m, 2 Britten Crag
18 Chicane Licken

Just right of Kerry's Climb, and shares anchors with it.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1997

Mixed trad 15m, 1 Britten Crag
17 In You Endo

Start in the centre of the wall beside a bush, and follow a thin crack curving up to a round pod. Trend left, past a small roof and bolts to a double bolt anchor.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1997

Mixed trad 15m, 2 Britten Crag
17 Hippocratic Oaf

Just right of In You Endo.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1997

Mixed trad 15m, 2 Britten Crag
16/17 Michael Is Janet

Start 3m right of Hippocratic Oaf, on the right end of the wall.

FA: Calum Hudson, 1995

Mixed trad 1 Britten Crag
19 The Unclimbed Crack

Just right of Off The Shelf, climb to the right of the obvious crack through a bulge. Finish on the anchors of Legends In The Baking.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Trad 17m Britten Crag
19 Trad Bash 2000

Follow a faint right-trending crack then over a slight bulge. Good protection.

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
19 Pinnacle Groove

Climb up a smooth wall to a ledge and join the groove and crack above. Tend right to finish up a steep crack, ending at the rap station to the left of Tres Estrellas De Oro.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
19 Rib Eye

Climb the right side of the arête in Whispers And Moans. There are wire placements in the short crack on the arête and a cam placement in the corner to the right, plus wires further up. Finish as for Whispers And Moans.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
17 Scrap Merchant

Climb up the right side of the scrappy corner, continuing up the wall on reasonable rock tending rightward. Protected in the middle but the crack at the top is not useful.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
21 Spanish Inquisition

FA: John Iseli, 2002

Trad Britten Crag
14 Mis-spent Youth

FA: Tim Wethey, 1977

Trad Britten Crag
22 Situation Comedy

Start just right of Mis-spent Youth and climb straight up the steep wall over a small roof (good gear just above) and into a groove. At the top of the groove make a committing move move right to a rest below a small bulge. Continue up to a ledge and finish more easily to a single bolt. Good protection except at the move right, which is runout and a bit scary. .

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Mixed trad 15m, 1 Britten Crag
18 Exotic Extraction

The right-facing corner a metre right of The Big Lebowski. A bold start on good rock to gain the crack is followed by easier climbing, with a steeper finish up the crack to TBL's anchors. Natural gear.

FA: John Iseli, 2001

Trad 10m Britten Crag
21 Skunk 2

Climb the right-leaning weakness past two bolts to the last bolt of the Nor West Arch traverse. Pull past it on the right to gain a rest in the crack above, which takes larger wires. Then move to the left crack and climb to the top of the pillar, with good cams. Steep climbing on good holds to finish, and move left to the anchors. Better than the name suggests. Double ring anchor.

FA: Richard Kimberley, 2000

Mixed trad 15m, 4 Britten Crag
19 Angel Wings

Left facing corner at the edge of a small cave.

FA: Hugh Matthews, 1997

Mixed trad 15m, 2 Britten Crag
12 - 14 Evasive Action

Climb the crack at the right end of the cave. Finish at the chains for Happy Ending.

FA: Hugh Matthews, 1997

Trad Britten Crag
18 Ollie The Dead Cat

FA: John Birch, 1993

Trad Britten Crag
20 A Great Day For Up

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Mixed trad 1 Britten Crag
21 If I Ran The Circus

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Mixed trad 3 Britten Crag
22 Hey Seuss

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Mixed trad 1 Britten Crag
21 12XU

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

Trad Britten Crag
16 Waltzing In The Hills

FA: Joe Arts, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
17 Excrement Eventuates

FA: Lindsay Main, 1998

Trad Britten Crag
16 A Taste Of Shit

FA: Brent Davis, 1981

Trad Britten Crag
19 Is The Pope A Catholic?

On the arete at the left end of the wall.

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Mixed trad 1 Britten Crag
18 Whacked Up

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2003

Trad Britten Crag
23 Primitive Man

FA: Simon Middlemass, 1993

Mixed trad 15m, 2 Britten Crag
18 The Swagger

Destroyed during the earthquakes.

FA: Joe Arts, 2000

Mixed trad 2 Britten Crag
21 Babes In Rice Rockets

FA: Joe Arts, 2000

Mixed trad 3 Britten Crag
18 Official Sanction

FA: 2001

Mixed trad 1 Britten Crag
18 Merlin The Unhappy Pig

FA: Joe Arts, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
20 Cracked Up

FA: John Iseli, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
16 Squash The Dog

FA: Joe Arts, 2002

Trad Britten Crag
21 Black Jack

FA: John Iseli & 2001., 2001

Mixed trad 2 Britten Crag
20 It's Only Natural

FA: John Iseli, 2001

Trad Britten Crag
20 Cookie Monster

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Mixed trad 15m, 3 Britten Crag
20 Identity Crisis

FA: Marcus Thomas, 2000

Mixed trad 2 Britten Crag
18 Drama Queen

FA: Marcus Thomas

Trad Britten Crag
24 Angel Delight

Climbs the severely undercut wall on from the left arête, start just left of the start of ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’. Take wires for the top, otherwise there is ground fall potential clipping the anchor.

FA: Tony Burnell, 2000

Mixed trad 15m, 4 Britten Crag
12 Darran's Training

Obvious, short crack left of The Lonely Sea And The Sky.

FA: Kieran Parsons, 2013

Trad Britten Crag
16 Pigs In Muck

Climb the small face following intermittent cracks, then up the arete tending right to the anchor.

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
19 Chicken Run

1m right of the wide crack, straight up the face.

FA: Lindsay Main, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
19 Simon & Dave's Trad Line

FA: Simon Courtois, 2000

Trad Britten Crag
18 No Drama

FA: Tony Burnell, 2020

Trad Britten Crag
16 Soft Option

FA: Tony Burnell, 2020

Trad Britten Crag
21 Cockburn’s Crack Trad 15m Britten Crag
12 Gorgeous Groove Trad Britten Crag

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