LANCASHIRE ROCK

This site is a digital copy of the 1997 BMC guidebook to rock climbing in Lancashire

Pudding Area

  • 12 - Pudding Flake

    Grade: | First Ascent: -1996
    Rating: 0

    Climb the wide flake crack that marks the right-hand limit of the wall, then step left and finish up the crack above.

  • 13 - Green Machine

    Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1973
    Rating: 0

    Start three metres left of the flake crack and climb flake cracks to the break, then continue rightwards up the very thin diagonal crack in the wall above.

  • 14 - Pudding Club

    Grade: 4a | First Ascent: -1971
    Rating: 1

    The open, blocky groove just left of Green Machine.

  • 15 - Dimple, Dimple

    Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1984
    Rating: 0

    One metre to the left there is a line of dimples directly below a crack at the top. Follow these past the bulge, then finish up the top crack.

  • 16 - Klayfire

    Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1976
    Rating: 0

    The thin finger-crack in the wall left of Dimple, Dimple.

  • 17 - Flaykier

    Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1975
    Rating: 0

    Two metres left of the tree-choked grooves, climb the wall on obvious flaky holds.

  • 18 - Pandemonium

    Grade: 7a | First Ascent: -1994
    Rating: 0

    The undercut wall between Flaykier and Cracker.

  • 19 - Cracker

    Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (Pre-1979)
    Rating: 0

    The small corner on the left, with a very hard, undercut start.

  • 20 - Prowler

    Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (Pre-1979)
    Rating: 0

    Start just to the left and climb the nose of the wedge-shaped prow.

  • 21 - Caliban

    Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1967
    Rating: 0

    Climb the centre of the strangely wrinkled wall just left of Prowler.