Ascensions dans Northern Group comme croix de types variés par Douglas Hockly

A great second ascent by Geordie minutes after the first. Good variety - a slippery seam, an awkward balancy crack, a weird traverse, crank through a roof and a headwall that can feel hard enough to be interesting if you're pumped - which I was. Good fun.

Very short and bouldery at the start with no gear.

Probably better than the original

This is really quite good. Just toproped it, I think the gear would be quite tough to place on lead. Nice rock.

Nice!

Nice steady climbing. Take small cams. Might be 16? We're really not sure at these grades.

Good fun, three interesting sections

Typically bold, take microcams and be prepared to run it out. Super bunched on the crux.

I thought this was quite good. The rock's not perfect and it's quite bold - there is no gear for the crux and you'll hit a ledge, and maybe the ground later. The climbing is interesting though and varied and feels like a bit of an adventure.

This is really good - slabby start, interesting corner then a steep bulge with a crack.

This is really not good. Poor rock, poor gear, don't bother.

A small amount of ok rock, didn't seem worth a star

Nice but all too short. Great position. Gear is poor in the first 5m or so.

Don't warm up on this one! Poor gear which is hard to find and there's a reason there's a route called 'Lou's not 19' just right. Revisiting this I realise I got off route (into the route to the R) and the original goes L in the middle. Apparently the gear is still not great though.

Maybe 22? fun face climbing

Really good! A bit runout but not sure if this is compulsory. Nice thin crack and face.

Pretty awful

Two stars and maybe 24. What a great route. Slabby, vertical, steep - it's all hard. Supercool.

Mega. Slick and pumpy reaching.

Not bad

Three star photography but two star climbing.

Looks like not worth bothering with but has an amazing intricate crux that is so technical. Well worth a TR if you've got a rope there. Would be a scary lead indeed.

A puzzling move at the roof!

A puzzling move before the roof.

Looks like 28 from below!

Great pitch - always very pumpy. Feels more like 21

Interesting climbing. Take a small wire and medium cams.

Not as good as the others

Again, the start is great but the top arete is so easy it's a little disappointing.

Very good, but once you pull the lip it's over, which is a little disappointing. Maybe only use one arm on the top bit?

Very technical, spent most of the time thinking! Very nice rock, take small cams. Might be a good link from Honeycomb.

We traversed too low across the corner as it looked too intimidating going straight up! The rest of it was good though and the top pitch is great - looks (and feels like) 20 but climbs at 17.

Wonderful!

Technical

Hard start, pumpy to protect, then a ramble and the top is nice.

I fell off this! If you want to be safe, preplace cams above the start and preclip them on the abseil in. The start is hard and greasy and odd. So's the rest of it. The gr19 DF is pretty hard and exciting too (gear is ok, take small cams)

I've never really liked the bottom half, but the top is good if you go direct.

A bit exciting on the gear.

The slopey traverse in is crap, the DS much better.

I really like this one. Best route on the wall (that I can do!)

A bit slimy now, but I did it with three dynos, so that's always fun.

Take care with gear.

Two star 23 - awesome - to a ledge and then dyno for a thread off slopes.

Frightening! It's not even a good wire you run it out from. Ok route, just worth a star.

Very nice rock and a bit bold. take lots of cams. Impressive lead by Noddy, probably onsight I imagine.

Started up BA mosquito, finished with WAOT DF - all pitches good, pitch through the roof has hard start and some dubious rock.

Initial squeeze is not that fun. The rest is good but only one star I reckon