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[ Print larger map ] – Grid Ref SE 037047 (OS Landranger #110)

The Ravenstones

Greater Manchester, ENGLAND

Climbs 150 – Rocktype Gritstone – Altitude 440m a.s.l – Faces N

Crag features
An excellent mountain crag of rough moorland grit up to 20m high set in a superbly exposed situation (most routes feel like the second pitch!). Green early in the year, best visited afternons and evenings in summer when the crag gets the sun. Plenty of routes of all grades, the isolated location adding a serious air. Lower grade classics include Grey's Wall (HS 4b), Wedgewood Crack (VS 4c,4b) and Trinnacle East (HVS 5a). Best extremes are True Grit (E2 5c), Stranger Than Friction (E3 5c), Welcome to Greenfield... (E3 5c) and No Time To Pose (E5 6b). The stunning Black Mountain College (E7 6b) awaits a repeat!

Weather forecast

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Forecast for this crag, or UK Weather forecast
More: mwis: Peak District & Yorkshire Dales – Met Office: Peak District

Guidebooks
Over the Moors (2012), Western Grit (2009), Moorland Gritstone - Chew Valley (1988),
Out of print: Western Grit (2003)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

1	West's Way	MVS 4c *	1
2	Problem Wall	VS 5b	1
3	Scoop Wall	VD	1
4	Little Extra	S 4a	1
5	Eastern Wall	HVS 5b
6	Eastern Arete	VD	3
7	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	HVS 5b *
8	The Chapter	E1 5c
9	Cioch Block	VS 5b *
10	Strenuosity	VS 4c	3
11	Cockney's Traverse	HS 4b *	4
12	Hang-glider	E2 5b *
13	Slanter	VS 4c *	9
14	Alpha	VD *	20
15	Beta	D	6
16	Grooved Wall	HS 4b *	10
17	Eastern Slab	D *	17
18	Deep Chimney	M	9
19	Green Wall	HS 4b **	24
20	Boy's Own	E1 5b	3
21	Nil Desperandum	S 4a **	21
22	Pulpit Ridge	HVS 4c ***	29
23	Over the Moors	E5 6b ***	2
24	Black Mountain Collage	E7 6c
25	The Drainpipe	S 4a ***	11
26	Guerrilla Action	E2 5b **	4
27	Welcome to Greenfield, Gateway to the Valley	E3 5c **	3
28	Undun Crack	VS 4c
29	Slime Crack	M	1
30	Little Kern Knotts	S 4a	2
31	Waterloo Climb	HS 4b
32	The Plonker	HVS 5b *
33	Muddy Crack	VD
34	No Time to Pose	E5 6b ***
35	Napoleon's Direct	E2 5c *	1
36	Mark I	VD *	7
37	Mark II	VD	2
38	The Derivatives	VD	6
39	Rollup	E1 5c *	4
40	Rizla	HVS 5a **	9
41	Stranger Than Friction	E3 5c **	4
42	Wedgewood Crack	VS 4c **	20
43	Wall of China	E4 6b *
44	True Grit	E2 5c ***	13
45	Sniffer Dog	E1 5b *	5
46	Spilon	HS *
47	Vanishing Chimney	D	5
48	West Wall Traverse	HS *
49	Trinnacle East	HVS 5a **	19
50	The Left Monolith	HS ***	46
51	Trinnacle Chimney	M *	11
52	The Right Monolith	HVS 5a *	5
53	Trinnacle West	E1 5b *	6
54	Nuke the Whale	E4 6b *
55	K. Corner	VD
56	Private Investigations	E3 5b *	1
57	Raven Rib	HVS 5a **	8
58	Flake Chimney	M	5
59	The Sting	VS 5a
60	Nevermore Arete	HVS 5a *
61	Jam Block Chimney	M	3
62	Magic Wand	E1 5a **	2
63	Abracadabra	E1 5b **	7
64	Wall and Crack Climb	S 4a	4
65	Colombia Lift-off	VS 4c	1
66	Impending Crack	HS 4b *	7
67	Taoiseach	HVS 5a
68	Subtending Wall	HS 4b	2
69	Stairway	D	1
70	Spring Box Crack	VS 4c *	1
71	Yellow Fever	VD
72	Spring Fever	S 4a	1
73	Trio	S 4a	2
74	Being Boiled	E1 5b *

	Climb name	Grade	x

75	Under Pressure	E1 5a *	1
76	Smilosity	D	1
77	Silent Knight	D	1
78	Funny Thing	VS 4c **	3
79	The Plin	VD
80	Plinth Chimney	VD *	4
81	Altered States	E3 5b *	1
82	Safety Plin	S 4a *	4
83	Plinth Arete	S 4a *	1
84	Twit Wall	VS 4b
85	Finger Wall	VS 4c
86	Cracked Nose	VS 4c
87	Writer's Cramp	VS 4c **	1
88	Pocket Climb	VD
89	Sue's Route	D	2
90	Earache	S	1
91	Cemented Block	HVD
92	Pinnacle Wall	VS 4b
93	Left Wall	VD	1
94	Slurbage	VD
95	Bebop	HS 4b	2
96	Droppings	VD *	2
97	Gray's Wall	HS 4b **	2
98	Ernie's Chimnack	HVD *	1
99	Y Climb	D	1
100	Wrinkled Wall	HS 4b *	1
101	Thin Crack	VD	1
102	Black Chimney	VD	1
103	Dead End	VD	1
104	Jack's Route	D	1
105	Hanging Ridge	VD *
106	A Near Do	HS
107	Cridge	VD *
108	Smiler's Wall	S
109	Pot Arm	M	1
110	Inverted Apex	S
111	Tattered Ridge	VS 4c *
112	Tattoo Crack	VS 4c
113	Hesitant	S
114	Ball	M	1
115	Barber	S	1
116	Bilk	S
117	Rimsky Ridge	S 4a	1
118	Choppin	HS 4b
119	Concerto Crack	HS 4b
120	Wild Thing	HVS 4c *
121	Overchewer	VS 4c **
122	Shantelmelf	VS 4b *
123	The Blues	VS 4c *
124	Rhythm	HS 4b *
125	Trad Dad	S 4a *
126	Beale Street	S 4a
127	Basin Street	S 4a
128	Ragtime	HVD
129	Bill	E1 5c
130	Ben	E2 5b *
131	Down Up Corner	VD
132	Up Down Groove	HD
133	Alder	HVD
134	Rimmon Arete	VS 4c *
135	Rimmon Wall	VS 4b **	2
136	Rimmon Slab	E1 5b *
137	Alphin	S 4b
138	Lollup	VD	1
139	Joe's Crack	HVD
140	Joe's Wall	VS 4b
141	Trapezium Slab	M	1
142	Not Another Slab	S
143	The Bookie	HVD
144	The Jump	D	1
145	C'Mon Lad	HD	1
146	Photo Finish	VD
147	Finishing Post	M	1

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Access notes
The following information has changed since the publication of Western Grit Rockfax; please amend your copy. The crag should now only be approached from the Binn Green picnic/parking area. Drop down to the reservoir, take a left turn and walk up the valley until below the cliff up on the right (Standing Stones is up on the left) which is reached by a steep ascent - about 40 to 50 mins.

Since the introduction of CRoW, the approach described in the book now crosses access land and so is OK again!

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