30m.
The alternative start provides better climbing and allows the stack to be climbed in two pitches. It joins the original route by pulling through the bad step on pitch 2.
1. 30m 4b Start from the ledge at the corner right of the south-eastern arete on the east face of the stack. Climb this and pull through onto a ledge, step right and climb the steep wall above to a grassy ledge. Follow this to the arete
1. 30m 4b Start from the ledge at the corner right of the south-eastern arete on the east face of the stack. Climb this and pull through onto a ledge, step right and climb the steep wall above to a grassy ledge. Follow this to the arete
Roger Benton, Ross I Jones 31/Aug/2003.
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Lord Oliphant's Bicycle
Grade: VS 4b ***
(Stack of Old Wick)