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[ Print larger map ] – Grid Ref SH 586604 (OS Landranger #115,114)

Vivian Quarry

Gwynedd, WALES

Climbs 143 – Rocktype Slate – Altitude 300m a.s.l – Faces S

Crag features
Home of the famous Comes The Dervish (E3 5c). Also contains many other easier routes to introduce folk to slate, such as Mental Lentils (HVS 5b) and viciously hard ones (Dawes Of Perception E7 6c). There's also the Bathtime Wall - E4 upwards.

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Guidebooks
Deep Water (2007), Slate (1992)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

	THE POOL LEVEL
	MUSCLE BEACH
3	Brinwell	HVS 6a	2
4	Boody Building	HVS 6a	8
5	Silvester Still-born	E1 5c	4
6	Earwig Ho 87	E3 5c	8
7	Booby Building	HVS 5a	10
	BATHTIME WALL
9	One Whell on My Wagon	E4 5c *	1
10	Wishing Well	E6 6b *
11	Sucked Away with the Scum	7c *
12	I Ran the Bath	E7 6b **	2
13	Bathtime	E5 6a ***	7
14	Soap on a Rope	E4 6a ***	36
15	Dope on a Rope	E5 6a ***	3
16	Blades of Green Tara	E2 5b	4
17	Order of the Bath	E6 6b **
	THE DARK SIDE OF THE PROW
19	Four Wheel Drift	E4 6a
20	Sesame Street comes to Llanberis	E3 5c *
21	Le Voleur	7c **
22	Artichokes, Artichokes	7b+ **
23	Aubergines, Aubergines	E1 5b
	THE WATERFRONT
25	Blue Touch Paper	E2 5c
26	Poetry in Motion	E3 5c
27	Wave Out on the Ocean	E1 5a
28	The Blind Buddha	E2 5a ***	5
29	Stump Rogers	E4 6b
30	Psychotherapy	E2 5c **	384
31	Cat Flaps of Perception	E4 6a	2
32	Imperial Leather	E4 6b
33	Working up a Lather	E4 6b	1
34	Spread 'em	E4 5c
35	The Sponge that Walked Away	E1 5a	6
36	Wendy Doll	E2 5b *	26
37	Two Bolts or Not to Be	7b+ **	1
38	Bobby's Groove	7c+ ***	2
39	The Weetabix Connection	6c+ *	27
40	The Golden Shower	E3 6a	4
41	Tower of Power	VS 5a	1
42	The Hong Jagged Route of Death	E3 5b	2
43	Heinous Creature	E5 6a	5
44	Sanity Fair	E3 5b	7
45	Sanity Claws	E5 6a	3
46	Fat Lad Exam Failure	E6 6b	1
47	Clap Please	E7 6c
48	Glurp	6c
49	Split the Dog	E3 5c	2
50	Dawes of Perception	E7 6c **	1
51	Time Bandit	7a *	20
52	Mental Lentils	HVS 5b *	701
53	The Monster Kitten	E1 5c	237
54	Ladder Resist	E3 6a	40
55	Moving Being	E4 6b *	13
	THE DWARF LEVEL
57	Watching the Sin Set	E5 6b/c **	1
58	Sup 1	E1 5a	5
59	Teliffant	E4 6a *	1
60	Sup 2	E4 6a *	2
61	The Shark that Blocked the Drain	E6 6b *
62	Wakey, Wakey, Hands off Snakey	E4 6a *	2
63	On Shite	E4 5c *
64	Too Bald to be Bold	E2 5c **	19
65	The Dwarf in the Toilet	E6 6b **
66	Gideon's Way	E4 6a *	2
67	Sabre Dance	E3 5b *
68	Bungle in the Jungle	E1 5b
	THE DERVISH SLAB
70	Lentil in a Stew	HVS 5a	4
71	Legs Together	E2 5b	2
72	Legs Akimbo	E2 5b	3
73	Feet Apart	E3 6b	1
74	Love Minus Zero	E6 6a **	1
75	Down to Zero	E3 5b	1
76	Yak Kak	XS
77	Age Concern	??	2
78	Bong to Lunch	HVS 4c

	Climb name	Grade	x

79	Frustrated Lust	HVS 5a
80	The Moon Head Egg Monster From Allsup	E1 4c
	NOSTROMO WALL
82	Nostromo	E4 6b *	7
83	Nostradamus	E4 6b *
84	Misogynists Discharge	8a+ **	1
85	Colditz	7b+ *	1
86	Young and Easy Under the Apple Boughs	E4 6a **	7
87	Manic Strain	8a ***	8
88	Gin Palace	7c ***	10
89	Child's Play	7a+ **	4
90	Hymen Snapper	E5 5c *
	THE DERVISH LEVEL
92	Reefer Madness	E3 5c *	4
93	For Whom the Bell Tolls	E6 6b *	3
94	Menstrual Gossip	E6 6b *	6
95	Comes the Dervish	E3 5c ***	538
96	Flashdance	E5 6a **	65
97	Belldance	E5 6b *	4
98	Flashdance/Belldance	E5 6b ***	4
99	Breakdance	E7 6b **
100	Last Tango in Paris	E1 5b **	423
101	Wendy Doll (pitch 3)	E1 5b	9
102	Swinging by the Bell	E5 6a *	5
	THE CONSCIENCE SLAB
104	The Gully	VS 5a
105	Mister, Mister	6b *	11
106	The Full Monty	6a	22
107	Slate's Slanting Crack	E2 5b	2
108	Foetal Attraction	E4 5c
109	Menage a Trois	E4 6b **	3
110	The Sweetest Taboo	E4 6a **	24
111	The Direct Start	E4 6b *	2
112	Never as Good as the First Time	E3 5c **	77
113	Is it a Crime?	E3 5c **	117
114	That Obscure Object of Desire	VS 4b	5
115	The Spark that Set the Flame	E5 6b *	2
116	Smokeless Zone	E4 6b *	5
117	You can dance if You Want to	HVS 5a	3
118	Vivander	HVS 5a	1
119	The Turkey Chant	E2 5c	15
	THE HOT KNIVES LEVEL
121	Throttle With Bottle	??
122	Binman	HVS 5a
123	Abus Dangereux	E2 5b
124	Fallout	VS 4c	1
125	Songbird	6a	4
126	The Manimal	6b+ **	3
127	Baby Nina Soils her Pants	VS 4b	5
128	Night of the Hot Knives	E3 5c *	2
129	Tribal Blow	E6 6b *	1
130	Solvent Abuse	E3 5b	1
131	Under the Glass	HVS 5a	2
132	The Velociraptor	E2 5c *	2
	THE RITTER SPORT LEVEL
134	Truffle Hunter's Roof	6b+ **	11
135	Satires of Circumstance	E2 5b
136	Jumping the Gun	E1 5b	2
137	Puff Puff	E2 5c
138	A Tourmegamite Experience	VS
139	One Step Beyond	E2 6a *	2
140	Two Tone	E2 6a **	10
141	The Madness	E2 5c **	35
142	Silly on Slate	HVS 4c *	2
143	Private Smells	E5 6b *	4
144	Private Smells Direct	E5 6b *
145	General Odours	E4 6a *	2
146	Ritter Sport	E3 5c **	21
	THE VALKYRIES LEVEL
148	Pas da Dutchy	6a	4
149	Pas de Chevre	7b **	2
150	Ride of the Valkyries	E2 5c **	1
151	Power Tool Ressurection	7a *	1
	THE TOP LEVEL
153	Faulty Towers	E2 5c
154	Caleduwlch	E4 6a *
155	Dog Day Dogfish	VS 4c	6
156	Top Level	E2 5b	1

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Access notes
Visible from Pete's Eats. Drive over the bridge and up the road to the Quarry (tourist centre). Park in the car park - check what time it closes.

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if you ever get a big freeze -10c for a few days the watertrickle on the base level r/h side becomes a 28m ,grade 7/8 water ice wall.
ben wray - 10/Apr/02

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