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The second pitch is scarred and hairy.

Absolutely amazing route - a real unrelenting journey; a bit chossy at the top - the full Ben Lomond experience.

Awesome 3 crack system, the crux is probably knowing when to move from one to the other.

Classic first pitch. I ended up making a hanging belay just over halfway when it became obvious that I wasn't going to have the juice or the gear to make it to the top. Amazing relentless jamming that keeps going forever. Bring many cams from 1 to 4 inches. Second pitch is the worst horrible death choss I've encountered on Ben lomond.

Will lead the first pitch and I got the second. The first pitch is amazing, a choose your own crack adventure for the first half, finger locks, bridging, fist crack and thin hands. about halfway it transitions into the best hand crack i have experienced on Ben Lomond, this continues to the top of the pitch. Second pitch to the top is choss, Next time I climb I would climb on half ropes and rap off the tatt at the top of the first pitch.

Up the 5 star first pitch before rapping off and having an epic trying to pull the ropes down.

Up the 5 star first pitch before rapping off and having an epic trying to pull the ropes down.

Seconded Nate up the mega classic first pitch. Rapped from tat rather than do the awful second pitch, then proceeded to get our ropes stuck. I spent ages ascending the stuck ropes, got them unstuck, then re-stuck, then unstuck again. Finally got them back after a couple of hours of shenanigans.

Holy heck what a nice route. Used doubles and bumped up my #4 most of the way. Dream rack if i do it again would be doubles #4-#.3 and quads #1 and #2. It may sound excessive, but itd be nice.

Second pitch was filth. I felt like a mountaineer, somewhere where the rock quality is similar to toilet paper.

Mega classic! This thing is a beast!! 50m pitch then rapped off. Nothing too technical but long and brutal towards the top. Never carried so much gear for a singl pitch. Double/tripple in the smaller to medium cams.. Quads for #2/#3, 2x#4. Make sure to pull the rapp rope knot far down and out of the crack before rapping down and then pulling it, as it will get stuck in the crack at top!

first pitch superb, second pitch maybe the worst rock quality I've ever led

So good and so long. The classic full body fuck. I basically stayed in the two right cracks the whole way, probably abit harder ahaha. Just pitch one

Rapped after the first pitch; hard to imagine anything better

Remember that moment when you walked into a party at a mate's place and your eye's just naturally laid on this one beautiful person standing in the corner; breathe taken away, heart racing and the mind boggling. You think to yourself, "You know what. This is it!". Nervously you approach and you give it all because deep down you know they are worth the fight, worth the effort, worth embracing the initial jitters and worth making a fool out of yourself for.

The most aesthetic of the lines. The feeling one gets when you stand at the base and look up, can't be described by poets of the past that wrote such Rondeaus.

Be warned. The theme follows; "Full body and soul meltdown". A triple crack system testing calf endurance and jamB panache. Don't let the 'wide' evil lurk you into its depths; escape while you can because no Sam will come to the aid of Frodo here.

Rack recommendations:

• Minimum double #4s, even triples won't go astray.
• Four #3s and #2s
• And a triplet of #1s and #0.75, doubles of the remaining
• A set of wires. Who dare climbs trad without a set?

  rondeau: a poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

Sustained jamming all the way, a full body workout! Excellent

First and last 20m were a dream. The middle offwidth ish type section was a grovel, sat on gear a few times there. Last pitch was a choss fest but I actually enjoyed it. Such a fun floggining!

Absolute quality. Unfortunately came off a couple of times but a mega route with fantastically varied climbing.

Only 3m or gr23 climbing but the gr20 & 22 pitches are good. Lead the hard pitch but had two hangs, top roped the pitch clean.

2nd pitch is mega hard finger crack, must have sat 1000 times.

Lead placing all gear, laughable at 24.

First pitch is a bit sketchy but fine with small wires.

With Nick and Mike, Tas '06.

another superb Ben Lomond crack

I did the 1st and 3rd pitches and Lee did the second pitch. The top pitch is 45 metres and not 15 as advertised in the guide. Watch for loose rock in the top pitch.

windy, no snow though. i did p2. great climb. only took 2.5 hours bottom to top and back down the gully... double cams #1 and #2 and #3

With neets, sensational

and i thought i could jam

Absolutely dogged the initial wide hand crack. Did the rest clean.