Rockfax Description
Traditional VDiff climbing featuring varied pitches and good situations. Due to the traversing nature of the route, all members of the party must be competent at the grade. Start at a short blocky corner on the left at the first ledge after the initial scramble.
1) 20m. Make some very awkward moves up the short blocky corner to get established on a ledge at 4m. Peg just above. Step left and pull steeply up left of an overhang to easier ground and continue leftwards past a bush and then a short corner to reach a good ledge and tree and nut belays.
2) 20m. Move up rightwards to another ledge and tree. Above is a pocketed crack with a thin thread. Move up to the thread and then step down and move right to a peg. Move delicately right again and then up on positive holds to a ledge. Go left and then up the wall just right of a tree to a wide ledge and tree and block belays.
3) 13m. Traverse the wide break leftwards – awkward. Once stood up in the break, a peg above can be clipped (a bit of a reach) to protect the second. Continue along a ramp to a shallow corner and pegs (this is the old belay). Move left out of the corner and make some nice moves on rough rock to reach a small stance and good nut and cam belays in a crack.
4) 30m. Easier but pleasant climbing up right and back left leads to a final stiff pull above a small tree to gain scrambling territory, a summit at the top of the easy way down, and various belays. © Rockfax

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