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Arachnus*** 9

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Another brilliant low-grader, up the middle of the watchtower. Start at the crack 5m left of the undercut right arete (but not the crack 9m left). Up the deep crack until it ends, right, and over a disconcerting bulge to a good ledge (8). Belay. Up the smooth wall on the rightuntil below another bulge, the left and up to a narrow ledge under the overhang. Best from here is an "unlikely" traverse right to a peg, then straight up to another good belay ledge (9). Finish back left and up to a scenic finish.
Speedie and McQuilkin 10/1964 Oct/1964
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This climb is in 39 logbooks, and on 1 wishlist.

tradguy - AltLd O/S - 25/Mar/13 with Ed Lamb

tommack - 2013

Hidden - Solo O/S - 12/Nov/12

Steve Gretton - AltLd O/S - 27/Oct/12 with Sam Junker, Kim Taggart

hazeysunshine - AltLd O/S - 11/May/12 with Liam

Jo and my last big route of the trip, awesome experience.
Theeni - Lead O/S - 07/Nov/11 with Jo Prichard

soph - Apr/11

robertmichaeladams - AltLd - 07/May/10 with Mel

MelH - AltLd - 07/May/10

fantastic climb, amazing positionsd for the grade. Mel led p1&4. I led p2&3.
Pete Nugent - AltLd O/S - 09/Apr/10 with Mel

Ant Harris - 2010

Duncan D - 2010

Hidden - Lead O/S - 30/Dec/09

Hidden - AltLd - Apr/09

mikebee - AltLd O/S - 2009

Steve Gretton - AltLd O/S - 13/Apr/08 with Justin Whittington, Craig Orgill

fritz_in_aotearoa - 2008

arose - AltLd - Sep/07 with Nick Kingstone

Climbing with Australian SAS.
justin burgoyne - AltLd - Aug/07

Ed Babs - AltLd O/S - 20/Apr/07 with Kate

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 16/Feb/07

Pitch 2
Pythonist - Lead O/S - Dec/06 with Ian Lau

John Southworth - Solo - 16/Nov/06

lamma_hippie - AltLd - 08/Apr/06 with Jon Lawton

johnboyrevel - Lead O/S - Mar/06 with Faye

tobydunford - AltLd O/S - 20/Apr/05 with Keith Hobbs

MarkDavies36 - AltLd O/S - Apr/05 with Jill Singleton/Davies

peter myers - AltLd O/S - 2005

Hidden - AltLd - 29/Mar/04

The woman I did this route with had only one leg!!!
al99 - Lead O/S - Nov/02 with Victoria climbing club

NorthernRock - Apr/02

Classic.
Rog Wilko - Lead - Mar/02 with Debbie Wilkinson

Hidden - Lead - 15/Nov/00

Hidden - Lead O/S - 05/Nov/00

RossG - 2000

Chris Ellis - AltLd O/S - 02/Sep/99 with Louise Pellett

dan gibson - 1998

Hidden - Lead O/S - 09/Oct/96

Hidden - Solo O/S - Mar/84

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Style of ascent

Soloed3 of 39 (7.7%)
Lead9 of 39 (23.1%)
Alt Leads19 of 39 (48.7%)
Unknown8 of 39 (20.5%)

'Climbed'18 of 39 (46.2%)
clean O/S21 of 39 (53.8%)