Rockfax Description
Intense climbing that builds to a decisive pitch which battles up the thin seam and shear wall left of the top of the ramp. Start as for Yellow Edge.
1) 5c, 26m. Yellow Edge pitch 1.
2) 5c,16m. Clip a peg above the ledge on the right and move up the wall and onto a hollow flake/ledge. Move up leftwards (peg), traverse left 1m and then head up the wall rightwards to a bolted belay in the horizontal band of pocketed rock.
3) 6b, 30m. Move up to a very thin crack (peg) and climb it to a ledge. Move up the wall above leftward (peg) and then on up the fingery wall past a peg to another on the left. Move up right and then left to a peg before reaching a break above, that is traversed left until the top can be gained or the bolted belay of Was it You? © Rockfax

UKC Logbook Description
If you only did the top pitch, see other entry.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/avon_gorge_sea_walls_area-29/tour_de_france_top_pitch_only-715824

1) 5b, 27m.
2) 5c, 15m.
3) 6b, 30m.
Only E5 if you go from the Ramp. Crack below is really hard

S Monks, P R Littlejohn (from the ramp M Corbett, S Lewis 25/Aug/1983) (pitch 2 and the pitch 3 crack D Critchley G A Jenkin 14/Oct/1984) 1986.

Ticklists

Littlejohn South West Climbs , The Ramp 'Super' Challenge , So you think your an Avon Climber? , Avon Gorge *** Routes

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