Routes as sport in Northwest Face

Vicious fingernail grinding fun! Start in the cave corner, move steeply along the up roof left to where you flip it out and crank hard on crimps to gain ground and clip the anchors.

Outrageous pinching through the roof.

A chossy wonder for those needing steep roof training. From the back of the cave move out right steeply over dubious rock, the punch out across roof (crux) to reach lip and anchor. A fine line between the brilliant solid rock and sandy rubbish in the roof, be careful in choosing your holds.

A wicked V3 boulder problem you won't find the like of elsewhere, shame it had to be roped (for safety). Start at the right corner of the cave, get all 4 limbs above your head and figure out the sweet beta to moving along the hanging arete - hint: bring your good boulder shoes.

The crag warmup, the easiest line up the cliff through the rotted and poxy rock which is surprisingly solid.

A 'GHill' inspired contrivance, the better alternative to this twin of routes. Does the crux of Sunk Capital but then keeps left without resting in the corner. Sustains some of the difficulty as you move up over small holds to desperate crux to finish back right.

The corner weakness. A hard crux to start but then into the corner and easy up to anchors. 'Fiducial Shift' was added afterwards for better sustained value.

The original route for this area. 'A steep roof type wall climb with a couple of bolts'. Climbed in the dark ages and then lost to history. Now fully rebolted and no longer a death route!

Link-up - Links Retire Old into Die Young through a new difficult breakdown torque crux. Inspired by GHill (The Engineer).

Complementary route to the original on this buttress. Start at the right hand side, up steeply through jugs, then set yourself carefully for a huge deadpoint to a nice sloper followed by an exciting (easy) runout to the anchors!

A minor route for the margins of history. Not that great quality but has some nice technical layback moves as you move up the arete. Start at the bottom of the cliff. Can be linked into 'Retire Old' for more value.