135m, 4 pitches. 1. First pitch as for Warsle, it may be necessary to break the pitch on the first grass ledge, below the easy angled corner, to reduce rope drag, depending on route taken up the pulpit.
2. 15m. Start up the second pitch of Warsle from the broad grass ledge, traverse left on the first basalt intrusion, which provides a ledge for feet. Belay after only a few meters on a small stance where the ledge widens, with very poor anchors, the remains of a piton can be seen in one crack.
3. 30m. Follow the crack system diagonally up and left to reach a broad ledge under a small roof, either ascend the narrow, finger crack in the exposed nose at the left end of this, or climb into the large break immediately under the roof, making an awkward move around a chocstone onto a sloping ledge, continue up this. A good stance can be found where this flattens out and becomes grassy.
Moving left along the ledge, a series of sloping steps leads onto a further basalt break, which can be followed left to a vertical crack system. This is followed over a series of slabs and ledges to the top of the buttress, or until you run out of rope, whichever is sooner.

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