Sian with air under her legs as she pulls over Black Pig
© jonnie3430, Jun 2008

'The 100 Best UK VS routes?' ticklist

Includes all 16 VS ticks from Classic and Hard Rock and adds another 84 to make a round 100. List compiled and selected from a wealth of contributions from UKC regulars via the Forums. Enjoy! A few are not graded VS in the UKC logbooks, but are generally accepted as VS.

456 users are subscribed to this ticklist, and none have completed the full list.
Login as Existing User to subscribe, which will show the climbs you've already ticked.

Add		Climb name	Grade	Ticks?	Height			Crag name
1		Benny	VS ***	59	50m	• 3		Promenade
2		Little Brown Jug	VS 5a ***	826	65m	• 3		Bosigran
3		Anvil Chorus	VS 4c **	555	60m	• 4		Bosigran
4		Diocese	VS 5a ***	378	?			Chair Ladder
5		South Face Direct	VS 4c ***	364	?			Chair Ladder
6		Wreckers' Slab	VS 4b **	267	115m	• 3		Cornakey Cliff
7		Lost Horizon	VS 5a ***	414	?			Baggy Point
8		Kinkyboots	VS 4c **	380	?			Baggy Point
9		Albion	VS 4c ***	312	107m	• 4		Lundy
10		Diamond Solitaire	VS 4c **	230	?	• 2		Lundy
11		Inkerman Groove	VS 4c ***	400	?			Chudleigh Rocks
12		Whitt	VS 4c ***	287	37m	• 2		Symonds Yat
13		The Angel's Girdle	VS 5a ***	73	110m	• 4		Wintour's Leap
14		Piton Route	VS 4c ***	349	58m	• 3		Avon Gorge (Main...
15		Climbers' Club Ordinary	VS 4b **	350	?	• 3		The Dewerstone
16		Osiris	VS 4c ***	358	?			Fall Bay Buttress,...
17		Blue Sky	VS 4b ***	367	50m	• 2		Saddle Head
18		Armorican	HVS 5a **	514	?			Craig Caerfai
19		Curving Crack	VS 4c ***	119	?			Clogwyn Du'r Arddu...
20		Longland's Climb	VS 4c ***	135	?			Clogwyn Du'r Arddu...
21		Sabre Cut	VS 4c **	611	?			Dinas Cromlech
22		The Direct Route	VS 5b ***	600	74m	• 4		Dinas Mot
23		Belle Vue Bastion	VS 4c **	147	48m	• 2		Tryfan (East Face)
24		Kirkus's Route	VS 4c **	165	?			Craig Yr Ogof (Cwm...
25		Doom	VS 4c ***	25	?			Craig Cywarch (aka...
26		Mur y Niwl	VS 4c ***	154	?			Craig Yr Ysfa
27		Oxine	VS 4c ***	146	?			Clogwyn y Wenallt
28		One Step in the Clouds	VS 4c ***	1837	69m	• 4		Craig Bwlch y Moch...
29		Green Light	VS 4c ***	8	?			Gogarth South Stack...
30		Kinberg	VS 4c ***	83	18m			Pinfold Area
31		Nea	VS 4b **	678	75m	• 4		Clogwyn y Grochan
32		Grey Slab	VS 4b **	166	81m	• 2		Glyder Fawr crag
33		Mississippi Buttress Direct	VS 4c ***	1626	22m			Stanage Popular
34		Valkyrie	VS 4c ***	1354	40m	• 2		Roaches Lower Tier
35		Tower Face	VS 5a ***	93	18m			Laddow Rocks
36		The Mall	VS 4c ***	956	22m			Millstone Edge
37		Ten Craters of Wisdom	VS 5a **	179	32m	• 2		Tissington Spires...
38		Bachelor's Climb	VS 4c ***	178	28m			Hen Cloud
39		Phoenix Climb	VS 4c ***	159	26m			Shining Clough Rocks
40		Fairy Nuff	VS 4c ***	123	18m			Standing Stones
41		The File	VS 4c ***	611	10m			Higgar Tor
42		Topsail	VS 4c ***	1593	12m			Birchen Edge
43		Central Climb	VS 4c ***	517	38m	• 3		Hen Cloud
44		Via Dolorosa	VS 4c ***	665	32m			Roaches Lower Tier
45		Hargreaves' Original Route	VS 4c ***	2251	18m			Stanage Popular
46		Chee Tor Girdle	VS 5a ***	196	?	• 4		Chee Dale Lower
47		Eliminate 'A'	VS 4c ***	412	?	• 6		Dow Crag
48		Murray's Direct	VS 4c ***	212	?			Dow Crag
49		North West Arete	VS 4b ***	370	?			Gimmer Crag
50		'F' Route	VS 4c ***	437	?			Gimmer Crag
51		Haste Not	VS 4c ***	294	?			White Ghyll
52		Botterill's Slab	VS 4c ***	209	?			Scafell Crag
53		Mickledore Grooves	VS 4c ***	95	?			Scafell East...
54		North-West Climb	MVS 4b ***	38	?			Pillar Rock
55		Adam	VS 5a ***	706	?			Shepherds Crag
56		Eagle Front	VS 4c ***	85	?			Eagle Crag...
57		Overhanging Bastion	VS 5a ***	510	?			Castle Rock of...
58		Square Chimney/Medusa Wall Combination	VS ***	54	?			Esk Buttress (Dow...
59		Jean Jeanie	VS 4c ***	704	25m			Trowbarrow
60		The Crack	VS 4c ***	423	?			Gimmer Crag
61		Engineers Slab	VS 4c ***	109	?			Gable Crag
62		The Night Watch	VS 4b ***	119	?			Whitestone Cliffe
63		Frankland's Green Crack	VS 4c ***	301	18m			Almscliff
64		Arete Direct	VS 4c ***	59	?			Simons Seat
65		Birch Tree Wall	VS 4c ***	713	15m			Brimham Rocks
66		Tacitation	VS 5a ***	485	?			Kyloe Crag (Kyloe...
67		Pinnacle Face	VS 4c ***	172	?			Crag Lough
68		Marcher Lord	VS 5a ***	133	?			Berryhill
69		Original Route	VS 5a ***	235	70m	• 4		Old Man of Stoer
70		The Edge	VS 4c ***	117	?			Loudoun Hill
71		Proud Corner	VS 4c ***	222	?			Glen Clova - Red...
72		Grooved Arete	VS 4b **	58	90m	• 3		Buachaille Etive Mor
73		The Mousetrap	VS 4c ***	68	?			Creag an Dubh Loch
74		Scabbard (Summer)	VS 4c ***	33	105m	• 3		Creag a'choire...
75		King Bee	VS 5a ***	174	?			Creag Dubh,...
76		Fallout Corner	VS 4b **	90	?			Coire an Lochain...
77		Phantom Slab	VS 4c ***	110	60m	• 3		Polldubh Crags,...
78		Damnation	VS 4b **	180	30m			Polldubh Crags,...
79		Spartan Slab	VS 4c **	380	?			Beinn Trilleachan...
80		Sword of Gideon	VS 4c **	153	125m	• 4		Sgurr a'Chaorachain
81		Black Pig	VS 4c ***	38	?			Reiff - Roinn...
82		Black Gold	VS 4c ***	61	?			Reiff - Roinn...
83		Pain Pillar	VS 4c ***	550	25m			Hawkcraig
84		Fionn Buttress	VS 4c ***	45	240m	• 11		Carnmore Crag
85		Whether Wall	VS 4c **	78	?			The Cobbler, North...
86		Whither Whether	VS 4b ***	100	40m			The Cobbler, North...
87		Jamie Jampot	VS 4c ***	86	?			Suidhe Biorach
88		Shangri-La	VS 4c ***	20	?			Sron na Ciche
89		Grand Diedre	VS 4c ***	16	?			Thearlaich-Dubh...
90		Perfect Groove	VS 4c ***	9	45m			Eshaness Lighthouse
91		The Groove	VS 5a ***	367	30m			Dunkeld, Craig a...
92		The Long Climb	VS ***	53	420m	• 11		Ben Nevis
93		The Chasm	VS ***	86	450m	• 16		Buachaille Etive Mor
94		Clean Sweep	VS 4c ***	107	?			Hell's Lum
95		The South Ridge Direct	VS 5a ***	221	?	• 13		Cir Mhor (South...
96		The Great Prow	HVS 5a *	31	85m	• 5		Bla Bheinn
97		Groove Armada	VS 4c ***	16	35m			Sarclet
98		The Fence	VS 4c ***	84	?			Fair Head
99		Girona	VS 5a ***	70	?			Fair Head
100		Agag's Wall	VS 4b ***	53	?			Lower Cove
			280 stars	32,409	3,241m	• 208