Crag features

Access restrictions. This is an SSSI and SAC in Ben Lomond Woods. Please note that the routes described here are historical only - bolting was banned in the 1990s due to disturbance to wildlife and climbers have been advised to treat the venue within their rights of access and not to disturb nesting birds such as ravens and owls, or caves used as otter holts, and delicate epiphytic flora and mature woodland. It is requested that  climbers avoid the main quarry in the summer months. Please confine any climbing to bouldering on the lower walls at each end of the quarry only, and if visiting please consider only outside of wildlife breeding seasons. 

This is an impressive northwest-facing wall of schist slate that's been quarried away to form a giant Z-shaped gash across the width of a pine-topped hill in Ross Wood. The quarry was last used in 1871.The large cracked 'Block' looks like it has been purposefully separated from the main wall by a giant crow bar! The southwest sector is more navigable, but the northeastern end has much larger blocks, and requires some care to move across them. On the main face, opposite the fallen block, there are a number of abandoned bolt lines and pegged routes. The southeastern end of the wall is low enough in some places to boulder, as is the far northwestern end.