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Westerlation* S 4a

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[evening sun on top of westerlation, 1 kb]A well-positioned pitch on good rock and with a spectacular finish along the crest of the North Ridge. Start at the third jammed-boulder in from the mouth of the narrow zawn between the South and North Ridges. Photo opposite.. 1) 4a, 20m. Move straight up the wall to meet a short crack on the right and then move up to the larger right-trending crack above. Move right along the crack and climb direct to the top of the fin and belay.. 2) -, 40m. Scramble along the ridge to its high point and then either continue to the tower or abseil from metal stakes. © ROCKFAX

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Photo: evening sun on top of westerlation © vertically_challenged
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 60 logbooks, and on 6 wishlists.

Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/May/13

Bold. Protection not great. Be very hard to down climb if you got scared, but apart from the exposure the moves are technically not hard.
Joel Perkin - Lead O/S - 29/Mar/13 with Rudman, Jamo Walker

Poor protection, and difficult route finding
Jelly Mould Surfer - Lead rpt - 02/Feb/13

p1, very nice
Cheese Monkey - AltLd O/S - 13/Dec/12 with Skip

Skip - AltLd O/S - 13/Dec/12 with Cheese Monkey

Kafoozalem - 2nd O/S - 29/Nov/12 with Alice

Jim Malo - Lead O/S - 16/Nov/12 with Putt

gripped01 - Solo - 25/Aug/12

Tom Seccombe - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/12 with Archie

Difficult route finding and bold at the grade. Runners not bomber either - took ages to lead out
Jelly Mould Surfer - Lead O/S - 04/Jun/12

Sam-westcott - Apr/12 with simon keenor

Hidden - Lead - 26/Feb/12

Hidden - Lead O/S - 13/Nov/11

Adrian Daniels - Lead - 14/Aug/11 with Steve Webster

Dad and Riff. Getting along the ridge and back to "main land" was more hair rasing than the climb! Watch your step
RachelP - Lead - 14/Aug/11

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 23/Jul/11

laurie turpin - Lead - 13/Jul/11 with Ed Evans

Abseil descent from top - left a sling and nut behind.
willu47 - Lead O/S - 09/Jul/11 with Bojana

soloed afterwards, cracking little route
tom_hall(: - Lead O/S - Jul/11

Joey C - Lead O/S - 11/Jun/11 with Ed Evans

Crappy scramble off, be safe.
Zoomer - 2nd - 25/Apr/11 with Julia Bloomer

Jules 210681 - Lead - 25/Apr/11 with glenn bloomer

Good climb, harder to place protection at beginning and end of climb
Joey C - 2nd rpt - 22/Apr/11

Top Roped
Joey C - TR rpt - 20/Apr/11

tim exley - 2nd β - 10/Apr/11 with spooner

Michael Aylen - Lead O/S - 03/Apr/11 with Ed Evens

SteWatkins - Feb/11

bigbear86 - Lead rpt - 2011

In Trainers. Joby's First climb after his "Finger Epic"
El3ctroFuzz - 2nd O/S - 11/Dec/10 with Joby

Great little climb, good hand and foot holds.
Joel Perkin - 2nd - 08/Dec/10

culmclimberRob - Lead O/S - 05/Dec/10 with stevieo10

Steve Woollard - 2nd - 24/Oct/10 with Kevin Colclough, Bob Dawson

Haytor_Haggis - 2nd - 24/Oct/10 with Bob Dawson, Steve Woollard

Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Aug/10

Hidden - 06/Aug/10

Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/May/10

nice easy route great protection
surfboybert - Lead O/S - 07/Mar/10 with sam hinton

Harry Webdale - Lead O/S - 07/Mar/10

vertically_challenged - Lead rpt - Mar/10

BEZ - 2010

JasonG - 2010

Hidden - 2010

Legs - Lead O/S - 29/Sep/09 with Macca

Hidden - Solo O/S - 22/Jul/09

Hidden - Lead - Jul/08

Hidden - Solo rpt - 18/Apr/08

Hidden - 2007

Hidden - Solo - May/05

Samuel1989 - Lead - 19/Apr/03 with Luke

Hidden - Lead O/S - Jun/01

Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Mar/01

Hidden - Lead O/S - Sep/00

Hidden - 2nd - 22/Jul/96

Hidden - Lead - 27/May/96

Hidden - Lead - 20/May/96

Hidden - 2nd - 15/May/96

Mark Kemball - Solo - 1995

colin milton - 2nd - 17/Jul/94 with eric milton

Marti999 - Lead O/S - 1992

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 07/Jul/90

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
Hidden, alexporter, AJH, willu47, BB1, climbingcritter

Voting
Total votes cast 46
hard HS0 of 16
HS0 of 16
easy HS1 of 16
hard S3 of 16
S12 of 16
easy S0 of 16
hard HVD0 of 16
HVD0 of 16
easy HVD0 of 16
hard 4b0 of 15
4b0 of 15
easy 4b0 of 15
hard 4a1 of 15
4a12 of 15
easy 4a2 of 15
hard 3c0 of 15
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Style of ascent

Soloed5 of 60 (8.3%)
Lead32 of 60 (53.3%)
Followed13 of 60 (21.7%)
Toproped1 of 60 (1.7%)
Alt Leads2 of 60 (3.3%)
Unknown7 of 60 (11.7%)

'Climbed'26 of 60 (43.3%)
clean O/S27 of 60 (45.0%)
clean β1 of 60 (1.7%)
clean rpt6 of 60 (10.0%)