Rating | Grade | Route | Gear style | Crag | Quality | Date | |||
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2369
points
| 26 | ★★ Chook Fear | 20m | Frog Buttress | Wed 6th Sep 2017 | ||||
This is so easier than Barbedwire canoe! Still won't be rushing back to lead it. Relies on friable tiny flakes.
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2215
points
| 23 | ★ Midnight Lightning | 15m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Sun 7th Aug 2016 | |||
Definitely worth wandering around to. Packs in quite a bit of climbing, and had me on the edge of falling off a few times. Once I was only saved by falling into a shoulder jam! You can build a nest of micro gear from a good stance below the thinnest bit, then it is a bit committing to the roof. There's an anchor up right above the bolted arete.
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2148
points
| 26 | ★★ Wild One (Wild One Direct Start) | 20m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Great climb, definitely the way to do the route
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2052
points
| 22 | ★ Slippin' Away | 13m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Thu 11th Aug 2016 | |||
Safe lead with many small cams (purple and green c3s at crux). Excitingly slippery, especial as it was spitting. Would be multiple stars if longer, but main corner is very short.
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2039
points
| 22 | ★ Thrutching is the Reward of Thrutching | 12m | Frog Buttress | Wed 29th Jun 2016 | ||||
Just as we were trashed from Inquisition in the Rye, this turned out to be a desperate thrutch in a smooth v groove with poor locks, flared jams and fiddly gear. Might be anywhere from 18-28, who can grade this sort of thing?
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2024
points
| 25 25 R | ★★ Tantrum | 45m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
2024
points
| 25 | ★★★ Carrion Comfort | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
A great route, think of it as even better if you have short legs like me and have to actually climb the initial crack rather than bridge into LLL. Seems pretty soft for 25. Has an anchor above it now.
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2024
points
| 26 25 | ★★★ Future Tense | 40m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Technical climbing with lots of layaways and the odd poor jam or lock and a goey exit of crimpers and gastons. Seems pretty soft for 26 though.
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2024
points
| 25 | ★★★ Voices in the Sky | 32m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1993
points
| 21 | ★★★ Odin II (New and Improved Odin) | 30m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Sun 13th Aug 2017 | |||
Much better looking line now and surprisingly clean. No grot from the block, but a bit of grot in the crack. I had a 4, 5 and 6 in it, but you could get away with just 4s. Thrutched so hard I almost had a heart attack! Lou was happy to give it 22.
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1965
points
| 24 | ★★ Plate Tectonics | 18m, 2 | Frog Buttress | Mon 13th Jun 2016 | ||||
I don't know about calling this brilliant. It's nice enough climbing, but you are on typical frog hollow sound flakey things a lot. Plus it's short and not really what I come to Frog for. A few very long moves and would be very exciting on lead.
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1950
points
| 22 24 | ★★ Suicide City | 20m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Continually nails! Awesome 3 dimensional climbing, often funky, insecure and pumpy. Could do with an anchor. Placed a high runner rapping of HS.
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1880
points
| 24 | ★★ Keep Left | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Very cool climbing, strenuous and balancy thin locks and layaway to a flaring offwidth in the back of the groove. Gear very thin and spaced down low.
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1880
points
| 24 | ★★★ Worrying Heights | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Bloody exciting run out crux.
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1880
points
| 24 26 | ★★ Wild One | 20m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Starting from Chook Fear is silly. The line is definitely the direct. Easy for 24 if you aid up to the flared crack.
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1880
points
| 24 | ★★ Down With His Pants | 20m, 3 | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1880
points
| 24 | ★★★ Impulse | 18m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1824
points
| 20 | ★ Back Row | 30m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
A good 20m or so of climbing in the middle. Mank to get to the first corner and main crack, mank to get out to the lookout at the end. Probably worth finding if you have done lots of the other stuff at Frog though
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1824
points
| 20 | ★★ Rack and Ruin | 40m | Frog Buttress | Don't Bother | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
The last 30m of this ruin all the goodness of the first 10m. Do yourself a favour and just climb straight up Lord of the Flies, which is a great route. Rock is generally terrifying the whole way up the corner and above and it's so close to LOTF that even my short legs could bridge into it at plenty of points along the way.
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1813
points
| 27 | ★★ Catcher in the Rye | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
The start of the route is almost impossible, the middle of the route is even more impossible, but then it becomes a really nice 23 ish thin hands crack. Kim Carrigan had the right idea with the 7 hex about half way up the route preplaced from Inquisition. Hard to imagine climbing this in 1979 in EBs.
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1811
points
| 27 | ★★ Stand in Line | 28m | Frog Buttress | Sat 18th Jun 2016 | ||||
Hard start, hard finish, tenuous and technical movement in between. Won't be trying to red point this on the limited gear available!
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1803
points
| 23 | ★★ Inquisition in the Rye | 27m | Frog Buttress | Wed 29th Jun 2016 | ||||
Fantastic sustained pitch and turned into quite the battle at the top. Might be 24 but I have taken a precautionary leaf from the Adam Demmert school of grading.
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1798
points
| 23 | ★ De Facto | 18m | Frog Buttress | Mon 13th Jun 2016 | ||||
This is actually quite independent of MP - you have to make a purposeful step right to use MP. If leading, you might want to do that before heading up the arete for gear but on a nice friendly top rope, you don't touch MP at all. Quite nice climbing, although has a few typical Frog questionable but essential flakey face holds.
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1754
points
| 22 | Highway Robbery by a Midget on a Shetland | 30m | Frog Buttress | Wed 17th Aug 2016 | ||||
Really nice, sustained climbing. A little grotty but would clean up easily. Rock is much better than the other routes on the wall (until you join Angel Rider and its corner full of wedged blocks)
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1718
points
| 20 20 R | ★ Easy Rider | 40m | Frog Buttress | Don't Bother | Wed 17th Aug 2016 | |||
Even done in classic Doug-point style of toproping the worst rock from gear placed from Hello Sailor, this is still an exciting undertaking in negotiating choss.
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1713
points
| 23 | ★★★ Deliverance | 45m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Don't know about some of the best gear at Frog. Maybe you should look at DD and C. Can get decent gear in the pin scars, but placing ground up would be difficult to get in around your fingers. The twin crack section is hard to see into the cracks to place the gear.
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1713
points
| 23 | ★★★ Epic Journey | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1713
points
| 23 | ★★★ Satanic Majesty | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1702
points
| 20 | ★★ Cannabis Crack | 40m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
I wasn't sure I was enjoying this at the time, but by the time Douglas had finished seconding, I was convinced it was an awesome route. Thin and steep to start, then pleasantly featured lower groove gives way to thrutchfest 2016 up the butt smooth section. Great training for the valley! Good rock, great line, sustained climbing, go beat yourself up on it.
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1699
points
| 20 | ★ Yokomo | 15m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Wed 15th Jun 2016 | |||
This would easily be a one star route if it didn't have the ledge in the middle of it. There's actually nothing reachy about the start, it's just technical, a bit fiddly to place gear and fairly sustained for the all of 5 m or so to the ledge.
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1699
points
| 23 | ★ Go-between | 18m | Frog Buttress | Wed 15th Jun 2016 | ||||
This is a walk in the park after Gone and Forgotten. Pleasant technical climbing, glad I wasn't leading though.
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1687
points
| 25 | ★★ Paranoia | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 13th Aug 2017 | |||
Sadly disappointed with this. the rock is crap to start and the climbing dodges around the line in too many places. The route with the chopped bolts beside it was so close that the chalk suggests that is how everyone climbs paranoia. The gear is remarkably ok after the start however.
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1685
points
| 25 | ★★ Barbed-wire Canoe | 27m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
The original description of an eternal purgatory of desperation is correct! Feels grades harder than Carrion Comfort, Impulse or Wild One. Gear also bloody exciting. Impressive alzeimer's lead by Adam
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1685
points
| 25 | ★ Bongo Gongo Wasto Ergo Sum | 20m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
Probably even more desperate than BWC, made all the more exciting by being less trafficed and less clean. Fixed gear is woeful.
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1661
points
| 19 20 | Nymphet's Crack | 32m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
Seems more like 21 ish. nice clean offwidth, then techy shallow corner with some friable rock to tree, gear is a bit spaced at one point. Desperate mantle onto ledge where an anchor would really add to the route, but you have to climb a grotty 3m then over choss to anchor above satiricon. Def worth doing if you have run out of classics at the grade though.
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1661
points
| 22 | ★ Satsang | 5m, 1 | Frog Buttress | Average | Sun 6th Aug 2017 | |||
Terribly contrived mini variant where even my midget legs can reach back into the chimney. Not really worth bothering with unless you want a bee line straight to the Yankee anchors.
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1598
points
| 21 | ★ Plummeting Pineapple (Plummeting Pinapple) | 35m | Frog Buttress | Don't Bother | Tue 29th Aug 2017 | |||
Started up on lead, but gear is small, fiddly and not abundant, retreated and TRed, happy to have bailed as the rock gets progressively worse. Don't climb the left face of the shitty corner, after a massive flat top flexed on me, the shitty corner looked great. Some good (and really quite difficult) moves down low though.
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1551
points
| 19 | ★ Psychedelic Apricot Pitch Two | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 7th Aug 2016 | |||
This one was way better than I expected - there was only 1 section where I thought it was particularly dodgy. Overall, the climbing was good and I've climbed on worse rock. Some of it was at Frog too.
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1551
points
| 19 | Midnight Express | 23m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 7th Aug 2016 | |||
pretty cruisy and enjoyable climbing, although I was happy to step into the right hand crack near the top as the exit is filthy.
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1550
points
| 22 | ★★ Lead-lined Lothario | 25m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
I always find this size crack desperate. It remains harder than Carrion Comfort next door!
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1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Old Guard | 40m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Great climbing, probably the friendliest 22 at Frog. Actually ends above Faki ledge, build a toprope anchor and down climb 4m to ledge to belay
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1550
points
| 23 22 | ★★★ Insomnia | 40m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★ Out on a Limb | 18m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★ Badfinger | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Yankee Go Home | 26m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Awesome route, one of the friendlier 22s at Frog.
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1550
points
| 22 | ★★ Decade | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Lonely Teardrops | 22m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★ Dave Mank's Electric Gorilla Direct Start | 10m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Erg Direct | 25m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Black Light | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
1550
points
| 22 | ★★★ Child in Time | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Desperate start and cruisy crack for midgets with small hands. Probably the reverse for everyone else.
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1539
points
| 19 | ★★ Monty Python's Flying Circus | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
With a triple rack of micro wires, there was enough gear at the start but it never gets wide enough for micro cams. Kind of annoying in that you are all focused on finding gear and not really on climbing. The top corner is quite nice but a long way off top quality Frog offerings.
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1539
points
| 22 | ★★ Bloody Mary | 16m | Frog Buttress | Don't Bother | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
Nice enough, easy for grade climbing but remarkably bad rock fro the entire length of the route. No gear at start and all subsequent gear in manky rock. Easy to top rope after Rickety Kate. Completely hazardous to lead.
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1539
points
| 22 | ★ Yodel up the Valley | 22m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
Funky climbing with more gear than I expected although I was still quite happy to be top roping.
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1538
points
| 19 | ★ Off the Wall | 13m | Frog Buttress | Fri 24th Jun 2016 | ||||
Nice enough climbing in very short sections with divided by a big ledge. Some fridge sized blocks in the crack at the end.
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1493
points
| 18 | ★ Ethicmans Dilemma | 22m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 13th Aug 2017 | |||
Why this gets such a bad rap in Andrew Martin's guide, I don't know. Gear is absolutely fine. Rock is ok by Frog standards, better than plenty of other routes. CLimbing is pretty good. Defnitely not R and probably not 18.
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1482
points
| 21 | ★★ Androcles | 10m | Frog Buttress | Thu 11th Aug 2016 | ||||
Very thin, technical and very spaced gear. Happy to be on a top rope.
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1435
points
| 20 | ★★★ Juggernaut | 30m | Frog Buttress | Mon 11th Sep 2017 | ||||
Discovered that even 3 number 6s are not enough for wussy me to get up this ... bailed about 2/3s of the way and had a TR after Sorcerer's. Seemed hard eoungh even on TR!
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1434
points
| 20 20 R | Quick | 13m | Frog Buttress | Wed 6th Sep 2017 | ||||
Entertaining climbing on a toprope as long as the whole climb doesn't fall down.
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1418
points
| 21 | ★★ Fluid Journey | 40m | Frog Buttress | Sat 9th Jan 2016 | ||||
1415
points
| 24 | ★★ Gone and Forgotten | 20m | Frog Buttress | Wed 15th Jun 2016 | ||||
Sadly, I found this route much nicer on the eye than it was to climb. Super thin and painful and feels pretty hazardous on the tendons. It wouldn't blink if it was given 25. The top half was much more enjoyable when I stopped feeling terrified of hurting myself.
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1384
points
| 18 | Last Picture Show | 22m | Frog Buttress | Don't Bother | Mon 15th Aug 2016 | |||
This turned into one of the greater battles of the trip - if you have short legs, you can't bridge out to the would be very helpful ridge on the right wall and you get to thrucht desperately up a flaring offwidth. 6 camalot very very nice to have. This is all ok though, the problem is the unavoidable death block near the top.
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1382
points
| 18 | ★★ Angel Rider | 50m | Frog Buttress | Thu 11th Aug 2016 | ||||
Be prepared to for climbing and protection in large wedged blocks of varying security with a difficult and exciting exit. Not really a 2 star route, but nice enough climbing in a good position if you are confident at the grade on dodgy rock.
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1380
points
| 21 | ★ Run With the Pack | 20m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Gear is really poor for 3/4 of the route.
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1380
points
| 21 | ★★ The Stars Look Down | 18m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1380
points
| 21 | ★★★ Cock Corner | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Lots of Frog 21s seem to be desperate. This is no exception.
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1380
points
| 21 | ★★ Warlock DS | 26m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1380
points
| 21 | ★★★ The One That Got Away | 35m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1380
points
| 21 | ★★★ Conquistador | 45m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1380
points
| 21 | ★★ Venom | 25m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1369
points
| 21 | Boris and Natasha | 22m | Frog Buttress | Average | Mon 27th Jun 2016 | |||
More funky climbing, some highly questionable rock and crap gear. Very happy to be toproping
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1365
points
| 18 19 | ★ Hello Sailor | 20m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Wed 15th Jun 2016 | |||
Fun, sustained, varied climbing. Just needs an anchor on top as getting off is pretty disgusting.
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1365
points
| 18 | ★★ Sacrilege Crack | 25m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Wed 15th Jun 2016 | |||
This turned out to be great fun - quite sustained climbing, a little bit of typical Frog weird flaky stuff jammed in the crack, and the offwidth is not really very offwidthy with plenty of face holds around it. Shuffling a 4 and 5 is adequate but a second of either would be better.
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1334
points
| 17 | ★ Chunder Crack | 30m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Wed 6th Sep 2017 | |||
I really enjoyed this. It didn't need all 3 of the 6 camalots I carried up it, but you can use a bunch of 2-5s. It's probably not the 20 it is given in Andrew Martin's guide.
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1327
points
| 20 | ★★ Holy Grail | 25m | Frog Buttress | Tue 15th Aug 2017 | ||||
There are a few routes the Andrew Martin guide denigrates that I think are great, but on this route, we are in total agreement. Started up on lead, got past the boot flake, which is as bad as it looks, only to discover higher up in the crack, a 20cm diameter pillar you can see behind, which is what you climb on and place gear behind. Decided that bailing was the better part of valour and lowered off the gear in better rock below. Had a TR to rescue gear, top out is filthy as well. Maybe some of Damo's judicious trundling will make a decent route of it?
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1315
points
| 20 | ★★ Catharsis | 20m | Frog Buttress | ★★ Very Good | Sun 7th Aug 2016 | |||
lots of fun the whole way, pretty cruisy, lots of features around the offwidth, only needing a few stacked hands at the top. Shuffled 2 x 6 camalots a lot.
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1267
points
| 23 | ★ Cracks in the Pavement | 25m | Frog Buttress | Average | Mon 15th Aug 2016 | |||
Reachy and thin climbing, I didn't enjoy this one at all. Continue to be amazed at what TS climbing in the 70s however.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Termination | 18m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Piranha | 45m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Corner of Eden | 35m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Rickety Kate | 15m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Egotistical Pineapple (Egotistical Pinapple) | 14m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Satyricon | 35m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Was good climbing with occasional questionable rock - did not have an anchor when I did it though.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Dream of Purple Peach Popsicles | 32m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Lord of the Flies | 40m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
The most underrated route I think I have ever done. Beautiful locks, steep hand crack, 3 dimensional groove ending in a smidge of offwidthing. Good rock, clean, has an anchor. Take lots of 3-5 camalots.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Cock Crack | 38m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Great fun, can shuffle a 6 camalot above your head and leave the odd 5 camalot buried in the crack as runners.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Footloose and Falling Free | 11m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Pollux | 23m | Frog Buttress | ★★★ Classic | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Beautiful clean rock although some might not say the same about the climbing. Some serious earning of every millimetre through the bulges. Take plenty of 4-5 camalots.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Odin | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Short Order | 30m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
Awesome route, rather sustained. Would benefit from an anchor.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★ Trap for Young Players | 11m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Erg | 25m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★ Famous Cosmetics | 40m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | |||
Quite good climbing, the steep fists to hand crack was harder than expected.
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1213
points
| 20 | ★★ The Great Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine | 33m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1213
points
| 20 | ★★★ Devils Dihedral | 45m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 | ||||
1163
points
| 16 | ★★ Drop-out Direct Finish | 7m | Frog Buttress | Average | Sun 13th Aug 2017 | |||
Quite nice climbing if you ignore that you are climbing up the side a top heavy detatched pillar.
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1163
points
| 19 | ★ Cold Turkey | 27m | Frog Buttress | ★ Good | Sun 13th Aug 2017 | |||
Really quite fun but needs gear bigger than a 6 camalot.
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1100
points
| 18 | ★ Harlot | 12m | Frog Buttress | Wed 6th Sep 2017 | ||||
Really squishing in the routes here ...
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1088
points
| 19 | ★ Humility | 15m | Frog Buttress | Sat 9th Jan 2016 | ||||
1050
points
| 19 | ★★ Electronic Flag DS - RHS (Electronic Flag DS) | 10m | Frog Buttress | Sun 6th Sep 2015 |