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[ Print larger map ] – Grid Ref NO 367970 (OS Landranger #44,37)

Pass of Ballater

Aberdeenshire, SCOTLAND

Climbs 105 – Rocktype Granite – Altitude 300m a.s.l – Faces S

Crag features
The quick-drying Craig an t'Seabhaig at the Pass of Ballater provides some brilliant, steep climbs on generally excellent Cairngorm Granite.

Popular with Aberdonians - excellent wet weather alternative if Creag an Dubh Loch and Lochnagar are shrouded in cloud.

Surrounding woodland provides interesting flora and fauna - esp. ants.

Climbing possible Mar-Dec.

Must-dos: Peels Wall (E4 6a), Rattlesnake (E3 6a), Anger and Lust (E2 5c), Smith's Arete (E5 6a), Lucky Strike (VS 4c), Little Cenotaph (HVS 5b)

Weather forecast

Today	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon

Forecast for this crag, or UK Weather forecast
More: mwis: Cairngorms & Monadhliath – Met Office: East Highlands

Guidebooks
Scottish Rock - South (2008), North East Outcrops (2003), Rock Climbing in Scotland (1990),
Out of print: North East Outcrops (1994)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

	WESTERN SECTION UPPER TIER
2	The Joke	E3 6b
3	Janus	E4 6b **	7
4	Cheap Trick	E4 6b *	1
5	Left Hand Crack	VS 4c	101
6	Right Hand Crack	HVS 5a	80
7	Right Hand Crack Variation Finish	E2 5b	20
8	Original Route	VS 5a **	237
9	Fingerwrecker	HVS 5c *	32
10	Wrecker's Traverse	E3 5c **	5
11	Peel's Wall	E4 6a ***	54
12	Peel's Wall - Right Hand Finish	E4 6a **	2
13	Smith's Arete	E5 6a ***	15
14	Idiot Nation	E5 6b
15	Dod's Dead Cat	E2 5c *	62
16	Little Cenotaph	HVS 5b **	262
17	Pink Wall	HVS 5a **	142
18	Green Laughter	HVS 5b	37
19	Flibbertigibbet	VS 4c	44
20	Green Wall	HVS 5a	7
21	Swine Before Pearls	VS 4c	14
22	Jackdaw Groove	HVS 4c	19
23	Jackdaw's Edge	E3 5c	4
24	Crumbling Dice	E2 5c	30
25	Black Custard	E1 5b ***	205
26	High Steppa	E2 6a **	49
27	First Slip	HVS 5a	28
28	Jam Crack	S *	64
	WESTERN SECTION MIDDLE TIER
30	BO	VD	45
31	Swivel Head	D	86
32	Rightguard	D	76
33	Aftershave	S	106
34	Aftershave Direct Finish	HS 4b *	2
35	Skidmarks	HVS 5b	8
36	Razor's Crack	VS 4c *	228
37	Razor Back	E2 5c	3
38	Jumbled Blocks Crack	VD	296
39	Ping Pong	S	324
40	Close Shave	HVS 5a	49
41	Brut	VS 5a	194
42	Brutal	E1 5c	2
43	Stinker	E1 5b **	173
44	Fungus Face	E1 5b	79
45	Cowardie-Custard	HVS 5a	58
46	Lime Chimney	VD	208
47	Ton Ton Macoute	E5 6b	6
48	Juniper Crush	E5 6a	3
49	Cavemen Go Clubbing	E4 5c	1
50	Lucky Strike	VS 4c ***	283
51	She's Not So Special	E1 5b	1
52	Pretzel Logic	E3 5c **	44
53	Dubh Clais	E4 6a
54	Rattlesnake	E3 6b ***	15
55	Supercreeps	E1 5b *	32

	Climb name	Grade	x

56	Scary Monsters	VS 4c *	11
57	Silent Spring	E1 5a **	82
58	Medium Cool	VS 4c **	127
	WESTERN SECTION LOWER TIER
60	Wiry Masters	HVS 4c	3
61	Tough's Brush	E2 5a	2
62	The Dance of the Wu-Li Masters	E1 5b	2
	CENTRAL SECTION
64	Private Parts	E6 6b **	1
65	Captain Copout	E4 6a **	4
66	Isolation	VS 5a	9
67	The Terrorist	HVS 5a	4
68	Distemper	E5 6b **	2
69	Cold Rage	E4 6a **	26
70	Hot Temper	E5 6b ***	4
71	Anger and Lust	E2 5c ***	90
72	Anger and Lust Right-Hand Finish	E4 6b ***	12
73	Lech Gates	E4 5c **	18
74	Bottle of Smoke	E4 6a *	1
75	Creak and Squeak	HVS 5a	7
76	Mandrax	VS 4c	10
77	The Splits	HVS 5b	35
78	Giant Flake Route	VS 4b *	144
79	Convoy	VS 4c **	80
80	Stoned Immaculate	E5 6a *	13
81	Drambo	E6 6a *	3
82	Bluter Crack	E4 6c
83	Bluter Groove	E3 6b ***	11
84	Blutered	E1 5a ***	111
85	Demon Drink	E5 6b **	19
86	Doctor Dipso	E4 6a *	28
87	Hangover Wall	E2 5c	31
88	Larup Head	E3 5c **	34
89	Alcoholics Anonymous	E2 5b *	35
90	Bad Back Blues	S	1
91	Back Slider	E2 5b	7
92	Strawberry Ripple	VS 5a *	122
93	Plane Slider	E3 5b	5
	EASTERN SECTION
95	Chopped P.O.R.G.	VS 5a	3
96	Shivers	HVS 5a	6
97	Rock 'n' Roll	HVS 5a	10
98	The Glaswegian Problem	E1 5c	3
99	Press Up	E1 5c	2
100	Wild Thing	HVS 5c *	3
101	Corvid's Chimney	VD	15
102	Jings	HVS 5b **	9
103	Help m'Bob	E5 6c
104	Hairy Baboon	E2 6a **	1
105	Fat Doris	E5 6b *
106	Slender Loris	E1 5c	4
107	Crivvens	HVS 5a	2
108	Eek	S	11
109	Sooty	S	3
110	Aid My Robert	VD	2

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Access notes
Erosion is a problem - please keep to obvious paths.

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USER FEEDBACK

who keeps stealing the screwgate from the ab tat around the tree above blutered/giant flake route etc? please stop it. its petty and cheap.
mulletcocktail2000