Ascents in Stanwell Tops by Doug

Surprisingly insecure. On from go to whoa. Felt plain hard keeping left with a committing crux. Risking matching the crack and mantling right may have eased the difficulty.

Inobvious start, delicate mantle, thin slap with proper bad feet and engaging finish.

The most normal route here. Nice pockets. A very long stretch directly over the bolt (maybe go left?) and cruisy finish.

Fun delicate thinking persons' moves.

Good moves that give to the top. Well bolted. Solid for the grade. 4 laps, 4 different ways.

Thoughtful arete moves for the grade. Well bolted. 2 laps.

One move then enjoyable wandering. Can go straight up the arete at the same grade.

Contrived. Just stick to the right side of the arete after the initial face up to Handful anchors. Airy insecure finish.

Tricky eliminate start. Sustained slopes to quite the pull, then thoughtful finish to top pockets.

Only a little contrived mostly due to squeeze. Do the final faces moves before finishing at arete. Pumpy as $*%@. Thought it would be easy on return visit - wrong!

Short but nicely sustained to a punchy crux. Not the 18 warmup I was looking for.

Fabulous limestonesque climbing. 22 if you're 5'0".

Crux sneaks up on ya. End of day pump, barely didn't fall off.

Bottom is really good. Crux is putting the last draw on.

It dreams of being 21? At 19 it'll be very good with more traffic.

Fun climbing but still thoughtful.

This is the pick of the area. Nice off balance climbing around the arete.

A couple of moves and then hold it together for another couple. 4 people 4 different ways. I went with the left foot up by the hands.

No wonder it felt hard for 17. Nice moves. Will always be seacliff sandy.

Nice bottom, nice top, and bit of blurgh middle. Right side of crux bolt is more fun totally avoiding all the big holds.

Fun enough.

With Al in '96 on gear. Better finish going to up to ILotG.

3 cool rooflets. Lay off the pocket on the 1st. Unlikely pinch undercling for the 2nd. Wild left hand undercling and right foot backstep level with your hand to finish. Slightly contrived to not wander over to BtS at the finish.

It couldn't be as bad as the topo says ...

Fun start into cranky crux. Cool arete slopes up top.

Better rock than PLS but more straight forward. Small hidden holds at 3rd bolt make a casual 17 after pulling off the ground.

Interesting rock both low and high.

Fun layaway finish too.

Not as easy as it looks. Bit dirty but fun enough. Slopey.

Quite nice. Slopey.