Vias em Western Bloc

To commemorate Greg Child’s 36th birthday. First line at left end of cliff, left of huge overhangs. Take a #3½ SLCD. Right-facing corner to roof. Traverse right under it. Up thin crack, step right up corner.

1. 10m Good finger-crack left of Checkpoint Charlie to below roof.

2. 20m Traverse left to arête, then up it.

Very pleasant. Crux at second BR, then sustained 21 to top. Wall 4m right of Uneasy Alliance. Seam starts above two low BRs. Follow this to ledge. Diagonally right up wall (two more BRs)to finish steeply.

Makes an excellent climb. From the mantel onNATO (18), veer up right on headwall to its right arête. Up.

Easier version of Tank Tracks. Start from large, mossy boulder 3m up righ tof Tank Tracks. Up and left on rib (loose blocks) to join Tank Tracks just left of yellow rooflet. Up Tank Tracks.

Graded 13/14 on the FA, upped to 16 on the second ascent, any other bids? Right of main face and left of face with distinctive off-width is a grey buttress. Climb this (steep start) and veer up left.

Starts right of Red Sky. Climb shallow corner then through overlap. Continue up, finishing to the right.

Good one. Seam and face 1½m right of Red Sky. Step left at top to avoid headwall.

Good position. Left arête of The Flying Game. Starts in corner at thin seam on left side of arête. A few hurried moves bring you right on to arête, then up staying right of arête.

The ‘distinctive off-width’ between Red Sky (actually 16 rather than 13/14 incidentally) and Writers’ Block in fact requires no off-widthing. Take a #4SLCD and a #2 Big Bro (#5 SLCD size).

Great, but poorly protected down low. Up grey wall to seam in middle of face right of off-width. Over small roof and climb horizontal breaks on wall above.

Loose and dirty. Up attractive finger-crack 4m right of Writers’ Block. Hand crack directly above. Step right above overhang, up.

Climb finger-crack as for Waiting For Mars. Climb right break in overhang,then take line of least resistance on wall above.

Excellent, sustained. Starts on terrace up right of Writer’s Block. Left out of cave, then left seam. Step right at roof, then scurfy up wall above.

Enjoyable, with a hard start. Curving sickle left of Cold War. Step across trench at left end of block. BR. Now up left side of cave, then arête.

Good climbing but not easily protected.Step off block across trench a few metres right of the above climb and climb up left on wall into cave. Step right and climb groove.

Steep corner-crack up right of Cold War.

Beautiful, steep climbing. Up buttress at far right end of cliff. Step left under bulge, then up and right to break (#3½ Friend) below final bulge.