UKC Logbook - 'Aberration'

2 pitches.

Rockfax Description
A worthy counter line to Mandrake featuring interesting and sustained climbing. Start 4m left of the gearing-up ledge below a wide corner (as for Mandrake).
1) 4c, 18m. Head up to the base of the corner and climb it to below a wide crack. Climb the wide crack to a ledge and belay in an alcove.
2) 4c, 18m. Move left with difficulty onto a shallow rib then traverse leftwards across the wall to below a wide corner-crack/chimney. Climb this to a tree then follow easier ground to the top. © Rockfax

UKC Logbook Description
There are two fallen trees with a possible rock behind one of them which affect the top pitch. This should be avoided for the time being (April 2012)

Now sound and clean. (August 2013)

Ticklists

Lakeland's Best Multi-pitch Routes up to HVS , Cumbria for the Recreational User , FRCC Borrowdale guide 2016 graded list , Lakeland Cracks

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User	Date		Notes
PaulJepson	13 Aug	Show βeta βeta: Quite a poor belay. Currently a fixed wire and got 2 micro-cams in below it. Both the blocks are wobbly and loose so don't use them!	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Quite a poor belay. Currently a fixed wire and got 2 micro-cams in below it. Both the blocks are wobbly and loose so don't use them!
laurafraser-smith	16 Jun	Show βeta βeta: Nesting bird (pigeon I think) at belay after P1. I think it frightened me as much as I frightened it!	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Nesting bird (pigeon I think) at belay after P1. I think it frightened me as much as I frightened it!
C Rettiw	6 Apr	Show βeta βeta: Excellent route, 3 stars. Topout looks grotty, but is actually fine as rock is clean. Watch out for a loose spike at first optional belay and the holly is also very loose/unstable, so don't pull on it or sling it unless you want to taker a flyer with a tree attached to you.	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Excellent route, 3 stars. Topout looks grotty, but is actually fine as rock is clean. Watch out for a loose spike at first optional belay and the holly is also very loose/unstable, so don't pull on it or sling it unless you want to taker a flyer with a tree attached to you.
jwood	15 Oct, 2024	Show βeta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent
jwood	15 Oct, 2024	Show βeta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent
jwood	15 Oct, 2024	Show βeta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent
jwood	15 Oct, 2024	Show βeta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent
jwood	15 Oct, 2024	Show βeta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Tried to lead it but it was grotty and hard, belayed sam up the first like 4 metres then he led the rest, should have taken the 2nd pitch as it was excellent
mandyglanvill	17 May, 2024	Show βeta βeta: No wasp nest now on route	βeta?
Show beta βeta: No wasp nest now on route
Stanley	10 Sep, 2023	Show βeta βeta: Great fun, very 3D climbing on the first pitch. It started to rain just as I began pitch 2. Extra motivation not to hang about.
Show beta βeta: Great fun, very 3D climbing on the first pitch. It started to rain just as I began pitch 2. Extra motivation not to hang about.
Si Withington	2 Sep, 2021	Show βeta βeta: Wasps nest just before the top out is still there. Run it out and get clear!	βeta?
Show beta βeta: Wasps nest just before the top out is still there. Run it out and get clear!
orangesmartie61	24 Aug, 2021	Show βeta βeta: We climbed past a wasps nest near the top of the 2nd pitch but they weren\'t agressive, thankfully.	βeta?
Show beta βeta: We climbed past a wasps nest near the top of the 2nd pitch but they weren't agressive, thankfully.
Colin Dyer	29 Sep, 2020	Show βeta βeta: There are a couple of different interpretations to the "step left" at the beginning of pitch 2. The lower options is a stiff and committing 5a move. The higher option is a bit grubbier but on the grade.
Show beta βeta: There are a couple of different interpretations to the "step left" at the beginning of pitch 2. The lower options is a stiff and committing 5a move. The higher option is a bit grubbier but on the grade.