Rockfax Description
A fine sustained pitch on superb rock. Start on a boulder at the base of a slim corner. Climb the corner and then head slightly left to slabby ground. Go up to the right of an overlap and once past it (thread), go leftwards to a flake. Climb up the wall and flakes above to the top. © Rockfax
UKC Logbook Description
The routes starts at the rightmost of the two corners in the middle of the wall, as shown in the picture in the guide book. Climb to the break in angle and aim slightly rightwards towards the downward-pointing tree branch, where the downward-pointing flake is visible, looking like a loose block from the bottom. The thread is on a ledge below this, which can also be clipped from No Muskateers before it traverses off rightwards.
From here, the leftward trending line of flakes is visible, and the final flake is the obvious highest point of rock above.
G. Gibson, M. Ward 03/Jun/1984.
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jrose99 | 1 Oct |
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βeta: Top flake is loose so don’t bother with it, excellent feet all left of it anyway | βeta? | |
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βeta: Top flake is loose so don’t bother with it, excellent feet all left of it anyway |
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laughitup | 11 Apr |
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βeta: Would be careful placing anything behind the flake. It's pretty loose and fear it would come off if you whipped off the next moves on to it. Does add some boldness but not ridiculous | βeta? | |
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βeta: Would be careful placing anything behind the flake. It's pretty loose and fear it would come off if you whipped off the next moves on to it. Does add some boldness but not ridiculous |
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khalidq | 23 Jun, 2022 |
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βeta: A beech tree has recently fallen and now lies at the bottom of this climb. The tree was just behind the yew that forms the anchor. The anchor cord was also attached to a branch of the beech which is still at the top ready to fall. We actually moved leftwards to the next anchor along for the abseil. Be careful. Also, whilst I'm here, I wouldn't be wanting to place cams behind that flake: a wire seems like a safer choice. | βeta? | |
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βeta: A beech tree has recently fallen and now lies at the bottom of this climb. The tree was just behind the yew that forms the anchor. The anchor cord was also attached to a branch of the beech which is still at the top ready to fall. We actually moved leftwards to the next anchor along for the abseil. Be careful. Also, whilst I'm here, I wouldn't be wanting to place cams behind that flake: a wire seems like a safer choice. |
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jessicacorbett | 19 Apr, 2021 |
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βeta: Be careful with the big downwards facing flake, this moved a lot when I tried to pull on it | βeta? | |
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βeta: Be careful with the big downwards facing flake, this moved a lot when I tried to pull on it |
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Michael Hellyer | 25 Sep, 2020 |
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βeta: Take care with the downward facing flake. I placed a cam underside and it moved when I gave it a light pull. I completely avoided the flake in the end. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Take care with the downward facing flake. I placed a cam underside and it moved when I gave it a light pull. I completely avoided the flake in the end. |
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watson23 | 29 Jul, 2019 |
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βeta: Loose/hollow sounding block near the top of this | βeta? | |
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βeta: Loose/hollow sounding block near the top of this |
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George Geo | 7 Jul, 2019 |
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βeta: Download the climber's club additional topo pdf file, LWVPDS.pdf which contains all the topos, as the main book hatd no topos. The descriptions are a bit confusing and could send you the wrong way. I found 3 threads and only one juggy flake! | βeta? | |
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βeta: Download the climber's club additional topo pdf file, LWVPDS.pdf which contains all the topos, as the main book hatd no topos. The descriptions are a bit confusing and could send you the wrong way. I found 3 threads and only one juggy flake! |
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Grade: HVS 5a ***
(Symonds Yat)