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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
17 Baudin

Left-most crack at top of crag. Climb out using second pitch of skyborne

Trad 20m
18 AID:A1 Skyborne

Hand crack 2 lines across from Baudin. Last couple of metres of p1 aided on first ascent. P2 climb corner, moving R to avoid chimney, into crack with axe-head at top.

Trad 60m, 2
18 Mindfire

Climb left wall of large chimney to L of Shells of Rheban. Not visible from other side of valley.

Trad 65m, 3
19 Shells of Rheban

The obvious 50m splitter crack viewed from the other side of the valley, finishing on a ledge 3/4 up the cliff, then scrambling out. Hands to fist.

Trad 70m, 2
16 Hellfire

Long corner line next to Shells of Rheban. Climbs past a dagger-shaped flake on the second pitch.

Trad 70m, 3
17 Hoorayfabob

Left-facing corner to the right of Hellfire. Awaiting a direct ascent. Climb 15m up Hellfire and belay before traversing onto line.

Trad 70m, 3
15 Gatekeeper Pinnacle

About 20m downhill from Hoorayfabob, the pinnacle is separated from the main cliff by a narrow chimney. Starts off broken slabs and rock to R of pinnacle. Rap off slings on top.

Trad 50m, 2
22 Hero to Zero

Starts about 60m aboveground in the amphitheatre on the far right of the cliff. The amazing splitter crack line just to the right of the double-offwidth crack on the left side of the amphitheatre. Climbed as 4 pitches with 2 hanging belays: 20 (30m), 19 (30m), 22 (40m), 18 (50m). Take 4x BD cams 2, 3 & 4, single rack otherwise.

FA: Dave James & Topher, 2014

Trad 150m, 4
15 Punky Brewster

Chimney and crack 10m from the LH end of the crag.

Trad 25m
17 Troublemaker

Dog-legged hand crack 3m right of Punky Brewster

Trad 25m
17 Joymaster

Shallow left-facing corner several metres left of the flaring offwidth

Trad 27m
15 Smileshine

The double cracks and corners slightly downhill

Trad 30m
17 Ocean of Wisdom
Trad 140m, 4
15 Journey Agent

Shares first two pitches with SBT

Trad 150m, 5
16 Sunbeam Traveller
Trad 150m, 5
16 Flem's Desire
Trad 150m, 5
16 Angels of Imagination
Trad 150m, 5
21 Dementia Adventure

Apart from the chossy last pitch, a great crack climb with everything from fingers to offwidth. Starts on extreme right of chossy ledge at top of The Jim, accessed via one of these. P1: Step right into finger crack, continuing to belayon chockstones at base of chimney (20m,19). P2: Up chimney, then continuing up fist crack to ledge. From here take the finger to hand crack on the right,up to a large ledge, and scramble to the base of the maon crack (40m, 19). P3: Straight up the fist to offwidth crack, which becomes hands for about 20m at 2/3 height (60m,20/21). P4: Find the line of least resistance/choss to the top of the cliff (20m, 16). Rack: Triple BD 2, 3, 4 & 5, single 0.3-1 and 6. Single set of wires.

FA: topher, Mike Hitchcock & Pete Kehoe, Nov 2020

Trad 140m, 4

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