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AdrianB | 6 Sep, 2023 |
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βeta: Beware loose rock | βeta? | |
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βeta: Beware loose rock |
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67hours | 25 Aug, 2021 |
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βeta: Descent notes from other posters are spot on. There’s a faint track in the grass over the headland from the bike dump co-ordinate (211639) to the cliff path: no need to go down to the beach and back up. Look for the actual gullies leading down, and then locate the small cairn on the path between two of them. The path down is more of a grassy ramp than a fully itself. We crossed at mid tide to the low point in the rocks opposite. Gave plenty of time and swum back 1hr after low tide. | ||
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βeta: Descent notes from other posters are spot on. There’s a faint track in the grass over the headland from the bike dump co-ordinate (211639) to the cliff path: no need to go down to the beach and back up. Look for the actual gullies leading down, and then locate the small cairn on the path between two of them. The path down is more of a grassy ramp than a fully itself. We crossed at mid tide to the low point in the rocks opposite. Gave plenty of time and swum back 1hr after low tide. |
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Calum3610 | 18 May, 2021 |
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βeta: Number 4 cam useful for pitches 2 and 3. | ||
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βeta: Number 4 cam useful for pitches 2 and 3. |
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gkerr123 | 10 Oct, 2020 |
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βeta: unless you want to go all the way to the beach see our beta under original route. to avoid confusion- the cairn that we made is east of the stack(Am Buchaille) but west of gully with small stack at bottom | ||
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βeta: unless you want to go all the way to the beach see our beta under original route. to avoid confusion- the cairn that we made is east of the stack(Am Buchaille) but west of gully with small stack at bottom |
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Adamcsyou | 3 Oct, 2020 |
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βeta: Surprisingly nice route. No approach notes in the guidebook - we cycled in the first 3km and then walked the last 3 to the beach. You've to go all the way until you hit dunes, then start back up along the cliffs, path the whole way. The decent is marked by a wee cairn in between the two gullies to the East of the stack. Quite steep and a bit muddy in places, walking poles maybe nice if you're of a nervous disposition? We reached the base 3 hours before low tide (we're slow climbers) and the channel was way too rough, almost gave up. 2 hours before low tide it gets much calmer as a low point in the rock comes clear. Water wasn't too cold and no one saw us swim across in the nip First pitch was steep on good holds, but it was very run out and a football sized block came away under my foot... Felt quite serious despite the relatively easy climbing. Second pitch was beautiful, traversed around along the big ledge to the lovely clean crack with good gear (difficult to protect the traverse for second but it is a big ledge). The overhanging crack was amazing, short very steep section pulling up on three massive horns! Linked the last two pitches with a bit of rope drag. Anchors and rope in good nick at the top but at the top of the first belay a lot of the pegs are looking very rusted. Trusted it because there are about 6 of them and I didn't think they'd all break... | ||
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βeta: Surprisingly nice route. No approach notes in the guidebook - we cycled in the first 3km and then walked the last 3 to the beach. You've to go all the way until you hit dunes, then start back up along the cliffs, path the whole way. The decent is marked by a wee cairn in between the two gullies to the East of the stack. Quite steep and a bit muddy in places, walking poles maybe nice if you're of a nervous disposition? We reached the base 3 hours before low tide (we're slow climbers) and the channel was way too rough, almost gave up. 2 hours before low tide it gets much calmer as a low point in the rock comes clear. Water wasn't too cold and no one saw us swim across in the nip First pitch was steep on good holds, but it was very run out and a football sized block came away under my foot... Felt quite serious despite the relatively easy climbing. Second pitch was beautiful, traversed around along the big ledge to the lovely clean crack with good gear (difficult to protect the traverse for second but it is a big ledge). The overhanging crack was amazing, short very steep section pulling up on three massive horns! Linked the last two pitches with a bit of rope drag. Anchors and rope in good nick at the top but at the top of the first belay a lot of the pegs are looking very rusted. Trusted it because there are about 6 of them and I didn't think they'd all break... |
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ChuckMaurice | 9 Jul, 2019 |
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βeta: Descent gully appallingly loose in the bottom third. Great belay ledges on VS route. Gear sparse on P1. Funky moves out of the belay at the start of P2. Hard (for mere mortals) final move out of the crack on P3. | ||
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βeta: Descent gully appallingly loose in the bottom third. Great belay ledges on VS route. Gear sparse on P1. Funky moves out of the belay at the start of P2. Hard (for mere mortals) final move out of the crack on P3. |
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