This site is a digital copy of the 1997 BMC guidebook to rock climbing in Lancashire
Grade: 4a | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 0
At the right side of the small bay and in line with The West Face there is a small buttress with a distinctive grooved notch at its base. Climb the crack and arête to grassy ledges and an escape on the right.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 0
The next section is at a higher level and its left side is split by a horizontal break at half-height. Start two metres to the right of the corner and trend slightly right then go straight up. Unprotected.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 0
Climb the shallow corner just after the ground level starts to fall, to an easier finish.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 0
The crack and shallow groove on the left provide difficult climbing via a shallow, black, square-cut recess near the top.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 0
Start at an embedded boulder below a blunt arête with a square-cut groove in it. Climb the crack on the left, move right into the groove and follow it to the top.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -1983
Rating: 2
A faint crackline up the centre of the wall just left of Tess. Tenacity and a rack of small wires will enable climbers to overcome its bouldery moves and cruise to the top. A good pitch.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1983
Rating: 2
Good jamming, with a real sinker at half-height. Climb the crack to the horizontal break near the top, then traverse left and finish up Questionable Stability. There are two other finishes:
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -1986
Rating:
Straight up the headwall.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1985
Rating:
Hand-traverse right and finish up the arête.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1982
Rating: 1
The steep corner crack.