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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
20 Iron Awe

The amazing LH rising traverse starting at ground level 15m from the start of the cliff and finishing at the DBB above Extreme Ironing! Take all of your cams, and some of your mate's! It is yet to receive a continuous ascent. The grade of pitch 2 is the subject of some debate in the range of 20-22.

Start: Starts at ground level 15m along from the start of the cliff

  1. 20m (21) Climb the well protected rising diagonal crack /ledge system awkwardly to the DBB above Black Iron.

  2. 24m (21) Traverse left along break to 'Incarceration' DBB. Eats cams up to #3.

  3. 6m (14) Keep traversing left across from 'Incarceration' to the DBB of Extreme Ironing!

FA: Pitch 3 Steve Chapman & Rob Booth, 2005

FA: Pitch 2 Will Monks & Kevin Lindorff, 2005

FA: Will Monks & Kevin Lindorff, 2005

Trad 25m, 3
23 Swarf

Right facing hand crack. 15m left of Iron Awe. Up right hand crack, then traverse left to DBB lower off.

FA: Steve Chapman & Rob Booth

Trad 9m
20 Black Iron

nice climbing At the black streak left of Iron Awe. Power up the black streak to the DBB.

FA: Rob Booth & Steve Chapman

Trad 8m
19 Iron Lady

Up right leaning crack system over the technical bulge and up to the break. Traverse to the DBB above Black Iron

Start: 5m left of Black Iron

FA: Rob Booth, Steve Chapman & Tuesday Phelan

Trad 12m
24 Permanently Creased

Sustained and technical climbing on Arapiles type rock. Starts 3m left of Iron Lady.

Climb the creases past a FH to the DBB. Take small and medium wires and small cams.

FA: Michael O'Reilly, Rob Booth & Steve Chapman, 2005

Trad 14m
Project - Rob
Trad 15m
23 Incarceration

Follows the major line of the cliff. Originally led in one long pitch. The second pitch has three or four aids (No.1 and 2RPs) to a big bucket, and then sustained free climbing to the top.

There is a DBB at the end of the first pitch.

Start: 12m left of Permanently creased.

  1. 16m (23) Straight up the lovely orange corner on perfect 'Grampians' rock. There is a DBB at the end of the first pitch.

  2. 29m (- M2) The second pitch has three or four aids (No.1 and 2RPs) to a big bucket, and then sustained free climbing to the top.

FA: Rob Booth, Steve Chapman, Robin Holmes, Steve Wilson; Glenn Tempest & Michael Hampton, 1993

Trad 45m, 2
25 Extreme Ironing

Since Michael O’Reilly snapped the crux hold off, this route is one or two grades harder.

Start 4m left of Incarceration at the yellow streak. Climb the easy flake and clip the bolt. Rock up with difficulty, using the small gaston, and climb up to the fingerlocks and technical layback. Go into the nice jams and up to the jugs. Finish easily up the wide trench to the DBB.

FA: Steve Chapman & Rob Booth

Trad 15m
23 Sand Iron

Climb this sandy crack system directly to the horizontal undercling and fingertip layback of Ironside (crux). Finish as for 'Iron Side'

to the DBB.

Start: At cracks 3m left of Extreme Ironing!

FA: Rob Booth & Steve Chapman, 2005

Trad 15m
23 Iron Side

Just keeps getting harder.

Starts 4m left of Extreme Ironing! After the easy start, climb the weakness & crack system on the left of the arête to the mantle and stance just before clipping the bolt. Don’t pump out too much holding the horizontal undercling before stepping right to position yourself for the fingertip layback (crux). Finish up to the DBB as for Extreme Ironing!

FA: Steve Chapman, Rob Booth & Kaz Anwin, 2005

Trad 18m
13 New Wave, Old Hat

The original climb on the cliff. Starts just left of Iron Side. Climb the major hand crack and corner above the ledge, belay below the ledge. Walk to the lower tree at the edge of the cliff and rap.

FA: Neil Barr, Peter Treby, Peter Allan & Kieran Sell, 1986

Trad 20m
15 Pet Willow

Starting off a rock cairn up and left to finish at sling above 'Iron Filings'.

Start: 20m left of New Wave Old Hat, start at the right hand crack.

FA: Jevon Hardware & Maria Lastra, 2005

Trad 15m
15 Pet Willow Iron

20m left of New Wave Old Hat, start at the right hand crack. Starting off a rock cairn up and left to finish at sling above Iron Filings.

Trad 15m
19 Iron Filings

Good old style climbing. Middle of the three cracks, just left of Pet Willow. Climb up to sling lower off.

FA: Robin Holmes & Steven Wilson, 2005

Trad 15m
20 Angle Iron

Nice climb for gym bunnies. At the left corner crack. Up the left corner crack. Then carefully step right at blocky section. Then up to lower off as for Iron Filings.

FA: Steven Wilson & Robin Holmes, 2005

Trad 15m
22 Pumping Iron

3m left of Angle Iron at the toe of the buttress.

P1 (16m, 20) Head up right edge of grey buttress. At steepening step right to follow thin crack through bulge. Up left then carefully up through finger like rocks to belay on ledge (bolt + wire). P2 (12m, 22) Small wires/RP’s to get started. Blast up strenuous crack with bomber gear. Hanging belay on left (large wires). Descent: Either scramble/slide down wide sloping ledge to the rap anchor for New Wave Old Hat, or top out and walk off the back of the cliff to descend down the western end of cliff.

FA: Robin Holmes, Steven Wilson & Tuesday Phelan (Pitch 1 only), 2005

Trad 28m
12 Robbed

May have been climbed by Glen Tempest and party but not recorded. Start 9m left of Angle Iron and 2 m right of Jaffle Iron. Up wide juggy crack with quite a hard start. Use rap anchors above Iron Lung.

FA: Robin Holmes Tuesday Phelan, 2005

Trad 16m
16 Jaffle Iron

Better than it looks. The corner 2 m left of Robbed. Up corner 2m left of Robbed, over bulge and left onto ledge. Walk left to rap point above Iron Lung.

FA: Rob Booth, Ross Timms & Tuesday Phelan, 2005

Trad 15m
Corner crack - project Rob
Trad 15m
22 Iron Age

The corner with a steep start, 7m left of 'Jaffle Iron'. The grade allows for fiddly protection through the crux. The blank section

at 4m is avoided by moving left, then rejoining the line, to a ledge at 8m. Traverse left 5m to finish up 'The Weight'. A better finish would be directly up over the improbable orange bulges from the middle of the traverse. Rap anchors above 'Iron Lung'.

Start: 7m left of 'Jaffle Iron'

FA: Kevin Lindorff & Will Monks, 2005

Trad 15m
15 Ironear
Trad 15m
16 The Weight

There is a corner becoming three rounded cracks. Climb the right wall of corner, following the right crack to terrace. Rap anchors above 'Iron Lung'.

Start: 4m left of 'Iron Age'.

FA: Michael Hampton & Peter Woodfield, 1991

Trad 18m
19 Iron Lung

Crack climbing on lovely orange rock. Start as for The Weight (4m left of Iron Age)

Climb the easy orange corner to the middle crack and directly up to the top and rap anchors.

FA: Rob Booth & Ross Timms, 2005

Trad 15m
20 Irony

Up 'Iron Lung' for approximately 6m and left below bulge and

up the left hand crack.

Start: As for 'Iron Lung'.

FA: Steven Wilson & Tuesday Phelan, 2005

Trad 15m
22 Rust Never Sleeps

Climb the technical crack till it ends. Clip the fixed hanger and climb up and diagonally right on spaced holds to finish up 'Irony'.

Start: 2m left of 'Iron Lung'.

FA: Steve Chapman, Michael O'Reilly & Rob Booth, 2005

Trad 18m
25 Turkish Bath

Start: 4m left of 'Rust Never Sleeps'. Climb the flake, step right and then motor up the grey streak leftwards through the bulges.

FA: FTRA Glenn Tempest, 1992

Trad 25m
16 Against The Tide

Start: Starts either at the weakness and flake, or at the dogleg crack 4m left of the weakness, below the large grey corner.

  1. 35m (16) Climb the weakness, or the dogleg crack, and head up to the large grey corner. Climb the corner and move right to belay beneath the chimney.

  2. 35m (12) Climb the classic chimney up to the ledge, past a large chockstone and crack. A final scramble through the rear of the cave leads to the top of the cliff. Walk off the back of the cliff to descend down the western end of cliff.

FA: Robin Holmes

FA: Pitch 2: Alastair Hudson, Mark Gould & Laura Gould

FA: Pitch 1: Robin Holmes & Steve Chapman, 2005

Trad 70m, 2
28 Steve Project
Trad
15 Permanent Press
Trad 12m
Underwear Ironing - project
Trad
26 HB Roof
Trad 50m
25 Rob project
Trad 50m
15 Big chimney
Trad 50m
21 Mike's face
Trad 25m
17 Jono's face
Trad 25m
23 Neil's Project
Trad 17m
Another Jono route?
Trad 25m
18 Big Drum Small World

Up weakness and crack; step left through smooth section, back right to line and up. Scramble off and descend carefully to the left.

Start: 10m left of 'Against The Tide'.

FA: Michael Hampton & Geoff Butcher, 2006

Trad 30m
26 Malcolm's Roof/Crack

Climbs the weakness through the roof and prow at the highest part of the wall, above and to the right of 'Against The Tide'.

Start: 'Access' the start by climbing 'Against The Tide' (16) and

moving right along the sloping ledge/chimney to belay at the

lowest point.

FA: Malcolm Matheson & Adam Demmert, 2006

Trad 20m
The Flatiron Southside
14 Lost in Deep Space

Steeply up corner to overhang. Step right then back left to large sloping ledge. Move left along ledge to shallow right leading diagonal cracks and up.

Start: Start about 30m north of saddle at orange left facing corner. Cairned.

FA: Glen Donohue & James McIntosh, 2005

Trad 20m
12 Beyond Gravity

Up wall, passing the left hand end of the orange overhang at half height.

Start: Start about 50m left and around the corner from 'Lost in Deep Space' halfway up the large sloping terrace.

FA: James McIntosh & Glen Donohue, 2005

Trad 40m
The Flatiron Pinnacles
21 The Bottom Inspectors

A cheeky climb with pushy right-wing tendencies. Balancy, but well protected. At the first weakness. Up through first bulge. Hard moves up and step right. After second bulge follow grey groove just left of arete (where the climbs been pushing you to all along).

FA: Michael Hampton & Edwin Young, 1991

Trad 25m
18 Rump Ranger

A really tasty excursion up a wall of buckets n’ bums. Climb the second weakness 4m left of The Bottom Inspectors. Follow the steep flakes up and right-wards to an exiting traverse, with a final big ‘heave-ho’ to pull over the top. A couple of manky slings on a bollard at the upper/east end of the pinnacle which need replacing or adding to by who ever is there next.

FA: Edwin Young & Michael Hampton, 1991

Trad 25m
20 Summit Fever

Excellent steep climbing on quality rock on left hand pinnacle. 6m left of the arete. Climb the line of least resistance, then traverse up and right with no protection (crux) and follow the obvious right leading diagonal line to the arete and the top. Scramble off the back of the wall.

FA: Jono Schmidt & James Pfrunder, 2005

Trad 25m
R Project

At the back of this pinnacle there is an unfinished bolted

project (3 FHs).

Do not climb this route as it still needs more bolts.

Trad 12m

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