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The face just right of Upstanding. Up the crack and face past a FH to a ledge. Up the wide crack then step right and climb the thin seam up the middle of the short headwall to finish at the abseil anchor.

The next buttress right of the Upstanding pillar. Take the attractive thin seam up the slabby face on the left side of the buttress passing a FH to finish up the seam in the steep headwall. Good climbing all the way. Small wires and cams are needed. Abseil descent.

Walk up the gully left of Carry on Regardless about 30m to a short clean face. Up the middle of the face to the abseil anchors. Small cams required [nothing larger than a BD 0.3 was used on the first ascent].

Nice short problem. At the left hand edge of the main cliff are 2 smaller buttresses. The left one. Climb short steep flake on right side of buttress. Pull over bulge above flake then up and left onto front of buttress, up to lower offs.

Climbs the tallest buttress of the cliff, which is at the left end of the main face.

1. 45m Up bulging crack just right of the foot of the buttress, then easily up the major line until you can move left on to the front of the buttress. Climb middle of buttress to top of pinnacle.

2. 20m Step right across top of chimney, right on ledge to easy line, up this then up left.

The distinct buttress between C.O.U.T.C. and T.K.O.K. has a major clean crack line from the ground up the centre. Committing moves for the first few metres (solid pro) which then eases off to about grade 12. Climb the crack to about 1 third height where it becomes a gully. Step right (possible belay here) and follow the line up the rib staying slightly right. Belay on top of the buttress from lower offs in the orange wall under the roof. Could be an alternate first pitch to C.O.U.T.C.

Right of The Barbara Windsor Mammorial Buttress is a corner chimney with a thin seam on its right wall. Approach from the right and follow the seam [micro cams] past a fixed hanger to a ledge where the line becomes a gully. Step out right and climb the arete to finish at the lower offs.

Near the right end of the cliff are two deep chimney-clefts. Scramble up L past large conifer to sloping grassy terrace just left of left cleft. Follow right leading crack up slabby left wall of cleft to ceiling. An exposed pull up right gains the chimney. Up.

Start 4m right of DWY. Up right side of wall to meet DWY a few meters below roof. Up to join horizontals and traverse left under roof, to ledge.

Up Beelzebub for 8m, L under roof and up wall R of Nerd's Day Out.

Distinctive corner on the second terrace L and uphill from the bottom cliff. DBB above this route - do not use tree as anchor.

Alternative start to 'Power Broker' up 'Flying Buttress'

Scramble up steep gully immediately right of Welcome to the Machine to belay on treed terrace. Traverse left to undercut, yellow corner-crack. Up line, which dog-legs right at top. (Last 4 m as for WM.)

Worse and dirtier than it looks, and it looks disgusting. Don't even think about doing the second pitch. Come to think of it just don't do any of it.

1. 40m (12) The disgusting cleft around to the L of TPTB is climbed [and I use the term loosely] more on dirt than rock to the big ledge. If you have any sense left abseil off the rap bolts now.

2. 50m (14) Up and R on poorly protected mank to ledge. Follow it right and tunnel behind pillar to finish up easy arete above it. A pointless and unpleasant excursion.

Would be better if it were cleaner. Worthwhile. 5m L of the LS cleft.

1. 40m (15) Up the crack and step R onto overhang. Straight up wall to ledge.

2. 20m (14) Continue up steeply passing 2 overlaps.