100m, 3 pitches.
Start just left of the obvious gully (Crazy Pinnacle Gully) at a stance with some small flakes, at the foot of the buttress.
P1 40m 5 The open, turfy, groove visible from the stance can be gained from either side but more easily from the left. Follow this to where it narrows at an obvious large spike. Climb more easily over a series of flakes, pinnacles & ledges on the crest of the rib, to an obvious stance under the huge pinnacle.
P2 40m 6 Climb the crack behind the stance & squeeze up the chimney behind the pillar. An obvious crack points the way off the top of the first pillar & on to the second. Gear can be found up & left of the top of the 2nd pillar, but the line is slightly lower on the right, up a thin crack & groove line. Well protected but sustained & technical climbing leads to the top of the buttress.
P3 20m 3 A rocky groove behind the stance leads up & across to the ridge.
P1 40m 5 The open, turfy, groove visible from the stance can be gained from either side but more easily from the left. Follow this to where it narrows at an obvious large spike. Climb more easily over a series of flakes, pinnacles & ledges on the crest of the rib, to an obvious stance under the huge pinnacle.
P2 40m 6 Climb the crack behind the stance & squeeze up the chimney behind the pillar. An obvious crack points the way off the top of the first pillar & on to the second. Gear can be found up & left of the top of the 2nd pillar, but the line is slightly lower on the right, up a thin crack & groove line. Well protected but sustained & technical climbing leads to the top of the buttress.
P3 20m 3 A rocky groove behind the stance leads up & across to the ridge.
Dai Lampard & Dave Green.
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Adam Rib
Grade: VI 7 ***
(Craig Cwm Du)