Nodes in Wied Faħam

Most crags enjoy easy access with short walk-ins, and most are accessible by bus. Be careful not to cross farmlands without permission.

The first crag located in the north east. It has and easy approach and is located by looking for the large dam at its entrance.

Afternoon sun

The small overhang above the slab, at the far left end of the crag

The wall and overlap just right of Little Bulger. Start at the recess on the right.

Follow the crackline up the slabby buttress with a concreate filled groove low down. Vegetated at its base

The concrete filled groove on the right. Delicate and thin to start but gets progressively easier

Most crags enjoy easy access with short walk-ins, and most are accessible by bus. Be careful not to cross farmlands without permission.

The slab and deep cleft beneath the fig tree

The pocketed wall and small overhang directly behind the WD No. 24 marker stone.

To the right is an overhang above two black streaks. Past these to a bush, then up a groove

The right hand end of the overhangs

Two caves with a hanging central piller above the block wall

Climb the central pillar directly

Up the central pillar, moving right along the hanging bar to finish up a short wall.

Climb the large overhang at the righthand end of the righthand cave where a thread is visible at the lip of the overhang.

The wall right of the cave, climb the left-slanting crack.

The next three routes are on the tall buttress right of the twin caves

The crack in the buttress passing some (Ts) at the top.

Centrally up the furrowed wall

The pocketed wall right, the up the arete.

A direct line up the tall buttress just right of the brick wall.

This is the next buttress round the right and inside Wied Faham proper

Climb the buttress just to the right of the end of the brick wall.

The thin crack to a ledge then step right to a crack, finish by the ear

The black corner just right finishing as for The Giant's ear

Starting in the corner, climb the crack keeping left of the cave

15m right is a large cave perched above a brick wall

Takes the pillar left of the cave

Climb the central pillar above two mini caves to the niche, then move left past a hole to finish up the pocketed overlap.

Climb the central pillar moving right to a niche. Finish right up the V-gap in the overhangs

TFrom the back of the cave climb the rusty wall to a left-slanting crack and through the V-gap to finish

The right hand inside wall of the cave finishing up the righthand V-groove past a chock stone.

The leaning right hand pillar of the cave. Start inside the cave trending right to pass a horizontal crack at half-height

An excellent white buttress set between two caves

The steep groove forming the left side of the buttress just right of the cave. Finish right over the bulge

The vague groove just to the right passing a good thread. Finish left up a crack

The wall right, passing a scoop

The meandering crack on the right to a rib. Follow this to the top.

To the right is a cave with a large villa sitting almost on top.

Beyond this cave the path continues past some broken buttresses to pass below a low, jutting overhang and a second, higher overhang.

The overhanging grey corner. Awkward at best

Climb the back of the large bubbly brown cave starting at the diagonal crack. Up left past a thread to exit left of the hole on good jugs. Pumpy

Start as for The Gape but continue directly over the roof on good jugs.

Most crags enjoy easy access with short walk-ins, and most are accessible by bus. Be careful not to cross farmlands without permission.

The short, sharp overhang.

First slab then another overhang finish

An excellent soloing/bouldering or top-roping area with potential at higher grades. Short grey walls upstream from the defensive wall and at the bottom of the stains. The first route starts immediately behind the lines.

The slab left of the concrete chimney.

Gain the concrete chimney from below, climb the right edge of the top chimney then swing right to finish up the wall.

The center of the wall

Pockets just left of Birds Nest Crack.

Up a thin crack near the righthand end of the wall

A descent route above the boulder

Start at the boulder, traverse left mid-height to the end.

Right of the boulder behind the carob tree and above a cracked corner. Go over a bulge into a bowl and finish up the crack above. Route os overgrown with vegetation.

The lefthand section of a bulging wall above a shelf. Sharp pockets and no gear

Start below a scoop at the righthand end of the wall above the shelf, up this to a t then left on big pockets to the top.

Just right is a left slanting crack behind the carob tree.

Pass another crack and tree to climb a curved crack direct.

Just to the right of Razor crack, climb the whitish streak on the left side of the grey wall.

The bulge at the righthand end of the wall and above the start of the approach traverse

Most crags enjoy easy access with short walk-ins, and most are accessible by bus. Be careful not to cross farmlands without permission.

150m up the valley is a steepening slab with top scoop split by a blasting channel.

Start left of the scoop to climb smooth rock over a bulge, then up a wall to gain the scoop on the right

The short technical corner just right to a difficult "pull out" onto the upper slab. Finish as for previous route.

Climbs the clab to the blasting channel then up this to finish. Unprotected

Climb the broken rib, step left and up a scoop by white marks to a ledge. Continue up to another ledge and finish by the blasting channel

Climb a broken rib and the corner on the right to cross a bulge. Traverse right to a ledge and up the blasting channel

The easy angled brown slab on the opposite, east side of the vally, finishing right via scooped rock

50m up the valley from the dam is a buttress with a deep orange-colored scoop. Beware the brambles beneath.

Down and left of the scoop is a steep cracked wall. Climb thin cracks then step right to a groove. Step left into a scoop then finish up the crack as for The High Road

Start in the scoop. Gain the large pocket on the Lefthand wall. Traverse left onto the outside face then either climb the steep crack above (harder) or go left to finish up an easier slab.

Wide bridging directly up the scoop to a steep and powerful pull-out at the top.

The lefthand thin crack line right of the scoop with an awkward move to gain a ledge at half height. Step right to finish

The diagonal righthand crack on the wall right of the scoop finishing left past two horizontal breaks

Takes a line right of the deep, elongated hole past a steep scoop, then up a short wall to finish

A historic route that climbs the buttress 10m right of the brown scoop using larg holds. Originally described by Showell Styles in his 1949 guidebook.

Most crags enjoy easy access with short walk-ins, and most are accessible by bus. Be careful not to cross farmlands without permission.

A deep groove leading to a think crack, 4m left of the wide crack.

The wide crack.

The hanging crack on the right.

The wall just right, then up a shallow scoop with a thin crack in it.

The crack and groove 1m right

150m further uphill (downstream) just beneath the defensive wall, is a hidden bay with a low cave in the back of it. Some good bouldering areas around the cave.

For this route Start at the back of the vegetated bay. Pull up right of a black streak and past a thread.

A large cave at the mouth of the valley, characterised by a crescent shaped hole in its left side and with solid buttresses either side. The first route is on the first buttress right of the descent.

Virtually any line up the buttress.

The chimney to the right pulling out left past a flake at the top

A direct line over the root capping the chimney. Very escapable.

The next buttress right. Vegetated.

The next chimney on the right

The wall, getting harder the further right you go.

The lefthand rim of the cave, past good threads

Leg jam the crescent then pray as you reach for the distant flat hold above its lip. pull out leftwards.

Up the crescent but reach for the rat-hole and exist direct

A crucifixion just right of the crescent. Span minimalist tufas and visualise a long reach to underclings. The rest is easy by comparison. The grade is hight dependent.

A line out of the back of the righthand niche of the cave. Climb the black righthand crevasse to the roof, traverse right under the roof, pull out on widely spaced jugs past a hole.

The bulge just right, then a black streak in a corner scoop.

The right edge of the cave stepping right from the cave to gain the upper arete

A line right of the cave mouth with a traverse right to a scoop and easy finish

The center of the wall between two recesses. Trend right past a hole and T then up the arete to finish.