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Vampire** HS 4b

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[3rd pitch, Vampire, Polldubh Glen Nevis, 2 kb]80m, 3 pitches. Starts 6m right of heatwave. Follow vague blocky arete to start of a slab. Move diag right (straight up is E1 variant) to reach a small ledge, before heading left to tree belay. 2nd pitch, head 5m left to large left facing corner, head up and follow natural line to another large ledge, level with but 5m right of pine tree. 3rd pitch, head straight up easy slabs following small cracks, into small niche, then up on delicate slabs to top.

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This climb is in 84 logbooks, and on 1 wishlist.

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 05/Apr/13

scatface - AltLd O/S - 30/Mar/13 with pepette

Lead the first and last. Rachel lead the second.
mzchambers - AltLd O/S - 03/Mar/13 with Rachel Bennet

Hidden - Lead O/S - 23/Sep/12

beantin - Lead - 08/Jun/12 with Jenny

Jenny Hall - 2nd O/S - 08/Jun/12 with Louis

Slightly scrappy first pitch. Good middle pitch.
Wee Davie - AltLd O/S - 03/Jun/12 with Andy Clark

As heatwave/vampire combo. Worth the 2 stars.
Liam Ingram - Solo O/S - 22/May/12

scallan022 - Lead O/S - 05/May/12 with scottie390

combined with drizzle in the the rain
arose - Lead - 05/May/12 with Adrian Dunlop

John Workman - Lead - 01/May/12 with Bob, Mark II

Hidden - 2nd - 02/Apr/12

Sally Hudson - AltLd - 27/Mar/12 with Mike Murphy

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - Lead O/S - 15/Nov/11

heatwave/vampire combo. ok route
bigdan050 - AltLd O/S - 21/Aug/11 with Tosh

Lead 1st and 3rd. Mark did 2nd. Not sure we started in the right place. Belayed on Storm at the tree.
DavPk - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/11 with Mark MacLeod

marie_p - 28/Jun/11 with John

Hidden - 05/Jun/11

Hidden - 2nd - 02/Jun/11

gilldando - 2nd - Jun/11 with Mike

Hidden - Lead - 15/May/11

jsrous - AltLd O/S - 01/May/11 with Dave Sanderson

Pitches 1 & 3 although pitch 1 seems a bit stiff?
Mike_Watson_99 - AltLd O/S - 01/May/11 with Fiona

Led pitch 2. Pitch 1 felt rather hard as I think we inadvertently did part of the direct route, oops! Pitches 2 and 3 are good.
Fiona Reid - AltLd - 01/May/11 with Mike

Hidden - Lead O/S - 22/Apr/11

Vs 4c variation 3rd pitch
Gemma *G* - AltLd - 22/Apr/11

Hidden - 2011

Led second pitch. Lovely climbing, great rock.
karinh - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/10 with Graeme

Finished up the VS variation. Really nice middle pitch.
GraemeDiack - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/10 with Karin Helwig

Hidden - Lead O/S - 18/Jun/10

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 18/Jun/10

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 18/Jun/10

PeteLoveless - AltLd O/S - 10/May/10 with alistair matheson

Alistair616 - AltLd - 10/May/10

Hidden - AltLd - 02/May/10

Brannock - Lead O/S - 30/Apr/10

PMCV - AltLd - 10/Apr/10 with Mark

Hidden - AltLd - 10/Apr/10

tomkilby89 - 2010

Hidden - Lead - 2010

creag - 2010

Calzzak - 2nd O/S - 04/Oct/09 with Graham McGrath

It got darker than we expected, faster than we expected, so had to bail after second pitch. Ended up 3 of us hanging from a tree rigging an abseil!
iceicebaby - 2nd O/S - 17/Sep/09 with Sarah Lewis, Sam Wood

Lawrie Brand - Solo O/S - 10/Aug/09

Ginger McGrath - Lead O/S - Aug/09 with andrew hutcheson

Hidden - Lead - Aug/09

Heatwave Vampire combo. Nice combination.
telemarker - Lead O/S - 11/Jul/09

Led 2nd pitch. 1st pitch pretty hair-raising. Hard for HS. 2nd pitch is nice and easy once up in the groove. Top pitch is good too.
climberuk - AltLd O/S - 13/Jun/09 with Niall

Led 1st and 3rd. 1st pitch seemed a tad tricky for HS though may have started up Vampire Direct andmoved across.
niallk - AltLd O/S - 13/Jun/09 with Steven Harris

VS variant
Craig Geddes - AltLd O/S - Jun/09 with Admiral

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 17/May/09

BRUCESTRAC - 2009

Hidden - 2009

gaz.marshall - Lead O/S - 18/Aug/08 with Jones

Only completed first pitch before finishing up Heatwave (MS). Crag very greasy with significant seepage higher on first pitch. Made worse by frequent light showers. Hence decision to switch to the easier Heatwave. Still the weather kept the midges away.
Mike - AltLd dnf - 20/Jul/08 with Ken Bibby

tomdude - AltLd O/S - 05/Jul/08 with fede

Sandy P - AltLd - 18/May/08 with Caroline Saunders

Delightfully slabby climbing, sandy took a wee detour to belay on storm I lead back to the proper belay and up the last pitch.
andymoin - AltLd O/S - 21/Apr/08 with sandy, Tim Cross

beegsyboy - AltLd O/S - 21/Apr/08 with Sandy + Andy

ijd201 - 2008

Hidden - 2008

TrollJester - AltLd O/S - 2008 with VARIOUS Throughout 80's+90's

Vicki M - AltLd - 01/Aug/07 with chris lawrence

fatboy_dean - May/07 with deep

HIGHTOWER - Lead O/S - 11/Jun/06 with Liz

liz-264 - 2nd - 11/Jun/06 with Hightower

brianrunner - Aug/05

Hidden - AltLd - Jul/05

Hidden - Lead - 25/Jun/05

seanyt - AltLd - Apr/05

CurlyStevo - AltLd - 2005

akhughes - 2004

Hidden - Lead - Apr/03

Stuart Macfarlane - AltLd - 15/Mar/03 with Laura

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Sep/02

Dave Kerr - AltLd - 24/Sep/01 with Karl Atherton

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 16/Jun/01

kjbix - AltLd - 15/Apr/00 with Rob Gray

luckyjim - Lead - Aug/97

Led 2&3
Iain Thow - AltLd - 25/Jun/95 with Chris Dodd

Yourlead - 2nd - 09/May/93 with Stuart Johnston

graham lawrie - 1989

chrisrogers - 2nd O/S - Jul/86 with Chris J

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Voting
Total votes cast 38
hard VS0 of 14
VS0 of 14
easy VS3 of 14
hard HS5 of 14
HS6 of 14
easy HS0 of 14
hard S0 of 14
S0 of 14
easy S0 of 14
hard 4c0 of 13
4c0 of 13
easy 4c0 of 13
hard 4b2 of 13
4b11 of 13
easy 4b0 of 13
hard 4a0 of 13
4a0 of 13
easy 4a0 of 13
3 Stars0 of 11
2 Stars5 of 11
1 Star4 of 11
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Style of ascent

Soloed2 of 84 (2.4%)
Lead19 of 84 (22.6%)
Followed12 of 84 (14.3%)
Alt Leads37 of 84 (44.0%)
Unknown14 of 84 (16.7%)

'Climbed'44 of 84 (52.4%)
clean O/S39 of 84 (46.4%)
dnf1 of 84 (1.2%)