30m.
Start the climb standing on a plinth of rock a few metres right of a vertical tongue of heather. Climb the vertical flakes on the right side of the recessed wall to reach a line of undercuts trending diagonally up and right. Follow these until they end, then climb directly upwards to a short overhang. Pull through this to gain a left-trending crack/flake feature - until this point on the climb it's about E3.
Follow the crack/flake with slightly increasing difficulty and gradually diminishing gear until it ends. From here, the wall steepens, and the only worthwhile protection is a series of RPs spaced about a metre apart up the final headwall. The last of these is actually a pretty good placement — a Green DMM Peanut — which you can place easily to your right while crimping some pebbles with your left hand.
From this final Peanut, step left and tackle a sequence of long reaches between slopey crimps with poor feet, until a big juggy flake appears and leads you to the top!
Follow the crack/flake with slightly increasing difficulty and gradually diminishing gear until it ends. From here, the wall steepens, and the only worthwhile protection is a series of RPs spaced about a metre apart up the final headwall. The last of these is actually a pretty good placement — a Green DMM Peanut — which you can place easily to your right while crimping some pebbles with your left hand.
From this final Peanut, step left and tackle a sequence of long reaches between slopey crimps with poor feet, until a big juggy flake appears and leads you to the top!
Robbie Phillips 13/May/2025.
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Land of the Lost and Found
Grade: E7 6c ***
(Quinag)