UKC

Thoughts?

1. Slime Wall
2. Etive Slabs
3. Carn Dearg Buttress
4. Shelter Stone Crag
5. Creag an Dubh Loch
6. Coire Mhic Fhearchair
7. Carnmore Crag
8. Sron na Ciche
9. Dun Mingulay
10. ?

In reply to Michael Gordon: I think there's too many, perhaps if they could be broken down into rock type and angle or something. Best Torridonian sandstone, best Devonian sandstone, best granite, etc.

Either way, should Rora Head be on your list?

In reply to Michael Gordon:


10. Crag 'X' on the NE coast. I'm still developing it......

In reply to Michael Gordon:

E Buttrress?

Rannoch Wall?

In reply to Mark Collins:

Possibly. Pity most of it's too hard for me!

In reply to Removed User:

I thought about 'Aonach Dubh, various aspects' but that seemed like cheating.

In reply to Michael Gordon:

...and me. Looks nice though

In reply to Michael Gordon:

Creag Dubh?

In reply to DaveHK:

Or Garbh Bheinn?

In reply to Michael Gordon:

Church Door.
Pink/Grey wall (Pabbay)

In reply to DaveHK:

I like Creag Dubh, not sure about top 10 though. Garbh Bheinn looks great (still to visit)

In reply to Robert Durran:

yes if/when I get more solid on E3 I'll have to head up to Church Door!

In reply to Michael Gordon:


10. Crag X up in the Far NW Highlands

In reply to Steve Crowe:

Is that Super Crag?

In reply to Michael Gordon: NE Buttress round to Gardyloo Gully on The Ben, is one immense spread of mountain cliff with a myriad of routes twisting their way through ground which mere stumblies like me can access.

In reply to Michael Gordon:

1. Ruthven boulder
2. Ship boulder
3. Farr boulder
4. Eagle boulder
5. Big Grey boulder
6. BNI boulder
7. Heather Hat boulder
8. Sheep Pen boulder
9. Spanking The Monkey boulder
10. ?

In reply to Michael Gordon:

1. Ardmair
2. Neist
3. Creag Dubh
4. Wave Buttress
5. Rosehearty
6. Reiff Leaning Block
7. Seanna Mheallan
8. Sheigra
9. Loch Tollaidh
10. Sarclett

In reply to Michael Gordon:

1. Moy Rock
2. The Camel
3. Goat Crag
4. Creag Nan Luch
5. Weem
6. - 10. ?

In reply to Michael Gordon:
Good thread!

Tope 10 that I've visited for rock climbing only, in no particular order...

1. Pink / Grey Wall - Pabbay
2. Creag an Dubh Loch
3. Shelter Stone Crag
4. Number 1 Buttress - Stac Pollaidh
5. Carn Dearg buttress - Ben Nevis
6. Far East Wall - Ben Eighe
7. Rora Head - Hoy
8. Big Butress, South East Face - Sarclet
9. Creag Dubh
10. Red Hole - South Cove

In reply to Fiend:

No Diabaig?

In reply to Steve Crowe:

There must be loads of those!

In reply to Andy Cloquet:

Good shout, though I always think of that area as being more of a winter venue

In reply to Michael Gordon:

Is Coire Mhic Fhearchair a cliff? Maybe narrow it down to the Eastern Ramparts. If we're talking big crags as opposed to outcrops or cragging areas I'd make a vote for Creag Ghlas in Strathconnon and maybe Kilt Rock and/or Sron Ulladale

In reply to Jamie B:

Surely Far East Wall ahead of Eastern Ramparts?

In reply to Andy Cloquet:


A myriad? There are about 4 summer routes worth doing! Not disputing the scale though but as a climber's cliff it wouldn't make my top 10 (or even top 20)

Another biggie I forgot is the South Wall on Garbheinn, and although you've got Slime Wall in there it seems difficult to leave out Rannoch Wall.

In reply to Robert Durran:


I think that's what I meant to say, but having never climbed on either I'm speculating. The rock routes I've done on the Triple Buttresses have been long but not exactly classic!

In reply to Michael Gordon:


and the best one deserves to be included on your list.

In reply to Jamie B: if u havent climbed at coire mhic fhearchair u should get yourself up there,its superb,4 pitch routes is hardly craging.

In reply to Michael Gordon:


For myself, I couldn't possibly leave out Lochnagar, or Skyscraper Buttress on Sgurr Mor nam Fannaich, or Coire Dhorrcaill on Ladhar Bheinn, or Garbh Coire on Braigh Riabhach.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

...And I like the look of the cliff on Beinn Bhan where the Cioch Nose is--whatever that's called.

In reply to Tim Chappell:


All winter cliffs - I think the OP envisaged this as a rock-climbing thread?

In reply to Tim Chappell:


The Cioch is actually on Sgurr a' Chaorachain, the next Corbett along.

In reply to Jamie B:


Possibly he did, but he didn't say so... Is it bad of me to take him literally?




PS One cliff to rule them all: Winter Corrie

In reply to Jamie B:


So it is. That one, then.

In reply to Michael Gordon: I'd like to think that the Sgurr of Eigg, Sron Ulladale and Creag Urbhard are as good as they look...but who knows?

In reply to Jamie B:

Never been all that impressed with Rannoch Wall. No lines (apart from Agags).

In reply to Tim Chappell:

I think compiling a winter list would be much more difficult.

If you haven't done Cioch Nose, well you should!

In reply to andrew ogilvie:

I think Sron Ulladale probably is, but I'll certainly never find out (by any decent route anyway)!

In reply to Michael Gordon:


You have a point there. But it's still an impressive feature and there's some fine climbing on it (albeit of a lineless variety..)

In reply to Michael Gordon:


Agreed. When are you free?

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Not too often at the moment I'm afraid. When I started this thread I thought I'd be doing well to get back to these big summer cliffs again this year.

In reply to Michael Gordon:

There's absolutely no way the Cioch Nose cliff should be in a top ten; the route itself is a pleasant enough scramble, but there's not that much else and the 'crag' is basically just a scrappy piece of rocky hillside.

Your original list looked pretty close to me; as others have said perhaps add Rora/St John's/OMOH (basically all the same cliff). I reckon you can count the Run of the Arrow cliff as part of the ShelterStone and, stretching it rather, Pabbay/Mingulay as all one; they're usually all visited together, after all.

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

I'd generally agree, John. I think Cioch Nose is a stunning rock feature and great route but yes it wouldn't be anywhere near top ten in a wealth of good climbing sense.

In reply to Michael and JamieB

Thank you, for years I couldn't quiet put my finger on why I felt Rannoch lacked something (an admission which no one would say openly , it is after all an immaculate bit of rock, inducing quasi-religious reverence in some), and you've encapsulated in a couple of words........no lines.......


But does that make ' line-up' a climbing oxymoron.............sorry I'll get me coat!

In reply to Michael Gordon:

My list would look something like:-

1. Diabeg
2. Neist
3. Reiff
4. Sron na Ciche
5. The Cobbler
6. Loch Tollaidh Crags
7. Sheigra
8. Carn Dearg Buttress
9. Carnmore
10. Cir Mhor

Very West and NW centric I'll admit (displays how little climbing I've done in the 'gorms to date). Coming up behind these 'top ten' I'd have the likes of Suidhe Biorach, Garbh Bheinn, Slime Wall, Far East Wall, Gearr Aonach, Aonach Dubh, Sarclet and Meal an Fhir-Eoin/Beag...

Ian

In reply to oscaig:

Nice list. I think Reiff is as good as anywhere but was trying to restrict it to individual cliffs.

In reply to Michael Gordon:
Cheers Michael. TBH the same argument would apply to Neist or the Cobbler too but pretty difficult to restrict to individual buttresses rather than climbing areas or hills. Even from a quick think on the subject though it does immediately become apparent how much world class climbing our little country has. Shame we don't often get the weather to get out and get round more of it!

Ian

In reply to oscaig:

Have you been living abroad the last two years?

In reply to Robert Durran:

Oddly enough the last few years I've actually been back in the UK but even with that it seems that whenever I carve out some time to head off climbing I still manage to miss any good weather. The last two weeks being a case in point! Kind of goes with being exiled to deepest Englandshire currently with limited possibility to head off home at the drop of a hat.

In reply to pamph:

Already been done I afraid

In reply to Steve Crowe:

Also been done, nothing left.

In reply to oscaig:

Yes the last month has been poor, but then it is September. I think the year on the whole has been pretty good though.