Ascents in United Kingdom having Beta

Started from the ground but since read you should start from the boulder, thought the start felt hard! From the last bolt I went up some right holds and someone shouted I should keep left, came back down after clipping the anchor to try the left way and felt the same. Looks like there is a nice 8a variation to try next time!

Leave technique at home on this burly, strenuous, steep wide-ish crack. Great gear, but some loose rock. Quite painful jamming, but I've paid my blood debt to the rock gods on this climb.

Nice route! Span isn't as big as it first appears.

Bold!

First 6C onsight, nice moves, want to get stronger to be able to work on rest of traverse!

Top is great, bottom is average. Came in from a jug on the left, felt easy at the grade.

Alternate leads onsight, sev took the harder pitch which ended up being soft for 6b and well protected. I led the 6a pitch which turned out to be quite runout and dangerous. Classic alpine granite, funky movement with spectacular exposure in wild positions! The crux was reading movement with the gardens of moss and lichen on the holds. A stellar day in the mountains!

Best climb here

Easy up to the roof, which needs a bit of oomph, but the holds are good. I found campusing it easier than trying to find the usable feet.

First 7a+ onsight! Hung around for ages route finding. Hug the fridge!

Epic committing moves on amazing rock

First UK 7a+ onsight, excellent but low in the grade.

First sport route in Scotland. One-move wonder

First 7a+ onsight!

Right-hand side

Smol but fun roof! Never down a "lie down start" before!

Very cool problem, improbably perfect pockets with some bold balancey dead points. Easily the highlight of the day!

steep jug-fest. Wicked

crimpy motherf*cker! great route, good onsight - had to fight a bit for it. Thought I was off at least three times.

good onsight!

very very good - solid onsight

Sweeet. Low crux on poo holds and then fingerlock to glory!

It was very difficult since many holds were dirty and very hidden! Very nice moves though!

First 24 onsight. Sweet. Just my style... Sequency but with good shake outs!

Favourite route on the crag, really solid rock you can crank hard on

Burly but a bit soft.

Fantastic onsight. Nice crux.

3 star jug haul. Quite pumped by the end really

Spicy fun! Committing 3rd bolt when putting the draws in! Apprantly first done as a solo, suprised they could get up with the weight of their massive balls!

Bloody lovely route!

Techy as!

First 7a/23 onsight 🎉 crimpy, delicate, and technical climbing up the vertical face. Average line.

Fun sit start problem with delicate footwork through the middle section

Not 100% sure I did the correct route but it was good

ace. Had a pad- not much use from the crux.

Nice buldery start and good moves on the upper wall crossing Walewska

Varied climbing, It's all in the footwork to start, then pumpy at the top. fairly 'run-out but easy for the grade, (easier than western front)

Painfull on the fingernails, wear stiff boots for those tiny edges.

Clipped the bolt

Pretty fun little E3 slab. The whole E grades rating is taking a little to get used to between a trad grade and the same sport grade but I think we are getting into it. Hard hard crux but then it kicks back a fair bit.

You get your money's worth with this one. Hard slab sequences for the two bolts then its the top. I had to work for this and was very happy to reach the top.

Short but action packed crack route. Gear a little tricky, try not to fill your hand holds with gear. It was kind of over before I knew it about good value at E3.

End of the day pebble pulling, pretty straight forward climb with ok gear. This climb looked scary when we first looked at it a week ago, it's amazing what a week on UK climbing does for your bold score.

First E4 and last route of the trip before the rain started. Glad to climb something a little harder and only wish we had more time to push the limits a little further. Sad to be leaving the grit but glad to still have working ankles.

Classic but scary as, was wishing for carrots ;-)