700m, 17 pitches.
A line up the middle of the Baroness face. Climb the easier slabs to the ledge. Climb the corner crack that forms the left side of the pillar towards to right side of the face (The Lady Pillar) in three pitches at E2/3 5a, 5b and 5c. From the ledge move up left and follow cracks all the way to the base of a pink pillar high on the face (The Salmon Finger). Aid point used low on this section due to damp rock (it would only be 5c or 6a). Crux moves were a couple of pills to the base of a crack / ramp.
We climbed the crack on the left of the salmon finger using ten or 15 feet of aid - would go free at hard E6 at a guess.
Incidentally, I think this is where The Iron Lung finished, and I don't think those guys did it free either. I coukld be wrong.
Brilliant rock, position and climbing. Most pitches E1 to E3. Nearly alwas very well protected. No loose or dirty holds. Spoiled by the aid section. If there was a more balanced way of doing that it would be great.
We climbed the crack on the left of the salmon finger using ten or 15 feet of aid - would go free at hard E6 at a guess.
Incidentally, I think this is where The Iron Lung finished, and I don't think those guys did it free either. I coukld be wrong.
Brilliant rock, position and climbing. Most pitches E1 to E3. Nearly alwas very well protected. No loose or dirty holds. Spoiled by the aid section. If there was a more balanced way of doing that it would be great.
Ian Hey, Niall Grimes Jul/2001.
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