Trowbarrow

Climbs 168
Rocktype Limestone

Faces W

Nick and Dan, Coral Sea (VS) - Trowbarrow © PJRead

Crag features

Trowbarrow has always been a popular climbing venue and over the last decade has been managed carefully and is now a very pleasant place to visit. Trowbarrow Quarry fulfils a number of functions being a good local evening crag, an excellent destination from further a field to sample its best pitches and as a reliable wet weather alternative to those washed out from the Lake District.

Bouldering guide available here:

http://www.lakesbloc.com/crags/south-lakes-limestone/232-trowbarrow-quarry.html

Approach notes

Nature conservation area - some requests to climbers to stop loss of fossils on main wall.

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Last updated on 23/Nov/2016

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Guidebooks

Northern Limestone : Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire

Northern Limestone : Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire covers some of the best limestone crags in the UK including the big three of Malham, Kilnsey and Gordale. Alongside these titans are numerous other destinations that offer both sport and trad climbing throughout the grades, ranging from the intimidating walls of Blue Scar and Trow Gill to the long lines of newly-developed low to mid-grade sport crags such as Moughton Nab and Giggleswick South. Trad climbing is also well catered for on the walls and escarpments at the likes of Trowbarrow Quarry, Twistleton Scar, Attermire Scar and Witches Quarry.

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More Guidebooks:
Lancashire Rock (2016)
Lancashire Rock (1999)
LakesBloc Website

Out of print:

Northern Limestone (2004)

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Jules, yeah it is mega polished. Good training for solid footwork ;D you get used to it! daftendirekt - 01/Apr/14
Went here on 31st May 2013 to boulder on Red Wall and it seemed mega polished and under graded...no-one else concur???? jules699 - 02/Jun/13
Some of these climbs are not in the right sections (e.g. Barnicle, Acid Drop, Drop Acid, Earth Eater) Anyone know how to change/ add them to other sections or create another section. Believe more sections are needed for example Yellow Wall and ideally the others Diamond Wall, Suspension Wall, Washday Wall, Lower Wall though Chossy Area could cover the last 4 Sol Armer - 31/Mar/13
Redwall makes a great morning wall climb as the sun reaches it first warming it before the rest of the quarry. Sol Armer - 31/Mar/13
Has anyone found a Petzl harness at trowbarrow since Monday 30th May? Either at the bottom of barrier reef or by the shelter boulder? Thanks in advance. carlc75 - 05/Jun/11
I did a few routes here on a rainy morning, and am astounded at how fast this venue drys... Red Wall is also dry nearly all the time, and has some very good quality bouldering.. I didn't do much on the large boulder, since it's all very high grades- but the venue overall is a great one, that I shall be returning to! Evilllamas - 30/Apr/11
From a bouldering point of view Trowbarrow is very handy, the red wall stays dry in the most miserable conditions. And there are some good problems on the shelter stone. Check out Lakesbloc for topos. Mike Binks - 10/Feb/06
Part of the crag has fallen away over the last few years. This has made some of the climbing quite dangerous as all protection points on some routes have a good chace of falling out or bringing the rock out with it.(i know its happened!). I now top rope this crag even though your not supposed to. If the wrden sees you you'll get a slap on the wrists and that about it. Make sure you find a strong ancor points when climbing this and a helmet could save your life at this one!! James Hall - 27/Sep/05
The Red Wall in the trees opposite Main Wall is also well worth a look, I only did one route there but it was surprisingly fun despite the polished start and very well protected so I wouldn't go with the "usually top-roped" nonsense. Also, more bouldering info at Lakesbloc.com. Fiend - 07/May/04
Bouldering info about this crag can be found on nwbouldering.co.uk beardy - 28/Mar/03

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name		Grade
	Coral Sea Area
2	Barnacle	-	S 4a	49
3	Coral Sea		VS 4c **	1280
4	Coral Sea Direct		E1 5c	65
5	Coral Sea Super Direct		f7B+ **	3
6	Barrier Reef		S 4a *	564
7	To Hell in a Handcart	-	VS 4a **	11
8	Ask Les		S 4a *	27
9	Boomerang	-	VD	67
10	Boomerang Direct		S 4a	6
11	Aborigine Wall		VS 4c	53
12	Robbie's Route		HVS 5a
13	Quisquillae	-	HS 4a	37
14	Arafura *		E1 5c	2
15	Ray's Route *		HVS 4c	1
	Assagai Wall
17	Perseverance		VD	25
18	Twentieth Century Schitzoid Man		D **	132
19	Rumal		HVS 5a *	100
20	Truffle		HS 4c **	173
21	Sour Milk Groove		HVS 5a *	93
22	Clotted Cream	-	E1 5b	15
23	Day of the Beanpoles		E3 6b *	2
24	A Sense of Doubt		E4 6b ***	152
25	Doubting Thomas		E5 6b **	9
26	Scary Monsters		E5 6a *	54
27	Boundary Groove		D	76
28	Javelin		E1 5b **	131
29	Sleeping Sickness		E2 5c **	164
30	Assagai		HVS 5a ***	781
31	Frontage	-	HS 4b	225
32	Bob		HS 4b	18
33	Night Flight		VS 4c	79
34	Incantations	-	E1 5a	13
35	Sluice		HVS 5a *	156
36	Crinoid		VD	35
37	Sickening Practice		HVS 5a *	1
38	Very Ordinary Route		M	103
39	Jomo		VD ***	1022
40	Pigfall		S 4a	114
41	Pig in a Poke		HVS 4c	8
42	Ramp Ant		S 4a *	737
43	Eclipse *		VS 4c *	3
44	Not Scary *		E3 5c	7
45	The Pate *		E2 6a	3
	Asylum Wall
47	Diaries Of A Madman		E5 6b **
48	The Nut House		E5 6a *	5
49	The Asylum		E5 6a **	16
50	The Idiot	-	E5 6a	2
51	Memoirs of a Lunatic		E5 6a **	31
52	Diary Of A Sane Man	-	E7 6b
53	Original Route		VD	263
54	Original Route (Crystal slabs finish)		S *	33
55	Red Slab		VS 4c/4b	22
	Main Wall
57	Oniscus		S 4a	8
58	Magic Making		E1 5b	3
59	Cracked Actor		E2 5c ***	493

	Climb name		Grade
60	Aladdinsane		E1 5a **	235
61	Blow Out	-	E6 6a	5
62	Jean Jeanie		VS 4c ***	1339
63	Eek		E4 5c **	5
64	Moondance	-	E5 6a	4
65	Major Tom		E2 5c **	27
66	A Touch of Class		E2 5c **	68
67	A Touch of Class (alternative start)	-	HVS 5a *	36
68	Harijan		VS 4c ***	537
69	Hollow Earth		HVS 5a ***	343
70	Warspite Direct		E2 5b *	33
71	Warspite		HVS 5a	34
72	Heroes		E3 5c *	11
73	Helden	-	E1 5b	5
74	Space Oddity		E1 5a *	2
	Yellow Wall
76	Street Boy Blues		E2 5c *	9
77	Mellow Yellow	-	HVS 5a *	3
78	Earth Eater		VS 4c	20
79	Willy the Dish		HVS 5a	4
80	Teardrop	-	E2 5c *	5
81	Moonlighting *		VS 4c	1
	Chossy Area - Right of Yellow Wall
83	Lone Wall		E2 5a **	17
84	Arc	-	HVS 5a *	13
85	Blue Daz	-	S 4a	15
86	Facial Gymnastics	-	E2 5b *	3
87	Square Deal Surf		VS 4c	23
88	True Blue		E3 6a *	1
89	Deep Throat		S 4a	3
90	Rock and Roll Suicide	-	E2 5b	1
91	Biological Agent K9	-	HVS 5b *	23
	Red Wall
93	Wrongo Sal		E5 6a *	1
94	Limestone John	-	E3 5c *	8
95	Essence Direct		E4 6a *	6
96	Essence of a Giraffe		E3 6a *	31
97	American Express	-	E2 5b **	8
98	Willy the Fink		E5 6b	3
99	Fluoroscopic Kid	-	E4 6a	6
100	Nova Express		E3 6a **	37
101	Exequy		E6 6b **	31
102	Homophobia		E6 6b *	6
103	Izzy the Push		E2 5c *	88
104	Heavy Metal Kid		E3 5c *	41
105	Michelin Man		E2 5c	8
106	Acid Drop		HVS 4c **	1
107	Drop Acid		HVS 5a
	Red Wall - Bouldering & Traverses
109	Red Traverse		7b+ *	38
110	Shallow Grave		f7A+ **	86
111	Shallow Grave Super Direct		f7B	9
112	Yin Yang		f7B *	3
113	Yin Yang LH		f7C *	1
114	Spring Loaded		f7B *	3
115	Grave Journey		f6B *	11
116	The Crack		f5	89
117	Optimus Primetime		f7A+ *	20
118	Warm Up Traverse		f6A+ *	34

	Climb name		Grade
119	Bulge direct SS		f6C *	44
120	Mud Monkey	-	f5	14
121	Funky Breeze		f6B	15
122	Dead Man Walking		f7B+ **	10
123	American Express (ss)		f6A *	77
124	American Express (standing start)	-	f5	49
125	Prophets of Sound (AKA:The Dots Dyno)		f7C+	3
126	Prophets of Sound (ss)		f8A	2
127	Mike's Problem Supercharged		f6C+ *	10
128	Grimlocks New Brain		f7A *	20
129	The 80's Dream		f7A+ *	6
130	Greg's Dyno		f7B *	25
131	6 Foot Sicks		f7C *
132	Nick's Problem		f6B *	71
133	G's Variation		f7A	5
134	Diagonal Diagnosis		f6B *	18
135	The Classic Sitter	-	f5	22
136	Classic Rock Over		f4	35
137	The Easy Groove		f3	36
138	The Undercut Problem		f7A	4
139	Parallax	-	f7A	5
140	Problem 4, Red Wall		f6A	11
141	Undercut 2		V6	1
142	Galvatron's Greed	-	V9	1
	Shelter Stone (AKA Trowbarrow Boulder)
144	Texas Hold Em'		f7B+ *	21
145	Free Jump		f6B+ *	16
146	Isla De Encanta		f8B ***	1
147	Free Hang (ss)		f8A *	5
148	Free Hang		f5 5b	26
149	Ramp Traverse		f6C+ *	89
150	Shallow Groove		f8A *	5
151	The Slab		f3	43
152	Il Pirata		f8C
153	Regular John		f7A+ *	7
154	Man From Barrow	-	f7C+ *	3
155	The Buccaneer		f7C	11
156	The Pit Problem (low start)		f7B+	54
157	The Pit Problem		f7B *	104
158	Pit Problem Regular		f7B+ **	2
159	Wheel Barrow		f7C *	18
160	Pacman		f8A	5
161	Pacman Right Hand		f8A	2
162	Ned's Problem		f7B *	67
163	Ned's Problem Footless		f7C *	1
164	The Jazz Phenomena		f7A+ *	23
165	The Groove		f6C+ *	51
166	Iron Man		f8A **	16
167	Iron Man Right Hand		f8A	5
168	Vitruvian Man Right Hand	-	f7C **	26
169	Vitruvian Man		f7C **	71
170	Pie Man		f7C	18
171	The Descent		f3+	5
172	Barbaric Yawp	-	f7C+	1
173	The Funk Phenomena		f7A *	70
174	Wamdue Project		f6B+	18
175	Atrocity Exhibition		f8A	3
176	Mojo		f7A+ *	4
177	One Hand Dyno *		f7A+ *	2

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