Park below the Cleddau number 3 bridge and walk upstream on true left for about 50m to pick up flagged track which soon veers away across swampy forest. After about 250m reach the bottom of a rocky creek bed and follow this to base of wall and the neck of the prominent forested knob under the wall. Up steep bush with some hand-lines and then traverse left to base of access slabs.
Routes
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| The Charismatic Movement Marketing Council, 23 | 23 | 404m |  |
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The face on the truncated spur on the true left, seen from the tunnel portal. Access to the base of the wall is difficult and thickly vegetated, but the quality of the rock on the upper walls is well worth the adventure.
From start flake climb straight up and through a short steep corner, moving right to belay in bottom of white left-facing corner.
Follow white leaning corner to peg belay.
Straight up obvious weakness then traverse right across slabs to bolt belay.
Traverse right across slabby wall; follow shallow left-facing groove into a steep corner. Continue up a few steps for belay on Privet Hedge Ledge. The pitch was split due to rope drag. Privet Hedge Ledge: Spacious seating for two with gear. Stunning views, sheltered from space junk, ample protection in flake above.
Traverse right to a shallow left-facing open-book corner with small roof. Deviousness necessary to protect startling blank traverse low down. Finish on bolt belay.
Up groove two metres right of belay then step left through steep ground to open corner.
Up groove above belay onto wall: good gear in crack. Traverse right past bolt (crux) to mantle ledge. Continue up wall on positive ledges to more good gear and fixed peg. A small tensioned pendulum will get you past the crux at 21 / A0.
Up arête to left of corner, then follow groove to a small slab and bolt belay.
Traverse left under roof thing to where it is breached by a weakness. Up then right to belay under overlap about seven metres above last belay.
A0, Follow dirty wet right-tending seam with a few aid moves. Belay as high on the easy ramp as possible.
Move out left from roof then up broken slabs to belay under gully things.
Climb right of roofs to grass, sun, places to sit and walk. Belay from rap bolt. |
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| Uprising, 24 | 24 | 0m | |||||
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Supersedes and generally surpasses the first Charismatic route, while following a roughly similar line. 16–19 pitches. Double hangers are on belay only stations. Take about 15 draws, slings, full set of wires and cams up to #3 + a few extra wires and cams ≈ finger crack size. 2x 60m+ropes.
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| Wild Dykes, 23 | 23 | 453m | 8 |
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650m, 24 pitches, 23 Once reaching the upper wall move right past uprising along the ledge to a fixed rope. At the base of the route there are singular bivy spots for 3 people. A 20L water bucket is in place 2m above the ring bolt of the fixed line on a small ledge.
Start on easy slab to a high first bolt head then up via small overhanging nose on trad to bolt on slab. Reach high to jug rail stepping right then up crack to belay. 3 bolts and trad
Step left off belay to a good cam then up and right following jugs on the dyke. 2 bolts and right traverse to anchor.
Climb straight up past 4 bolts to a tricky move to a jug. After the forth bolt once standing on the face move left and follow an easy crack on the edge of the white dyke up to belay From there easy trad to anchor.
Climb directly above the belay aiming for a good jug on the face right of the arete ( #2 cam fits in here. ) Follow finger crack right of jug up face to a bolt then easy run out up and left to anchor on ledge. Junction of Charismatic Marketing Movement.
Climb up and right of belay to bolt. At second bolt climb carefully past hollow flakes. 5 bolts plus gear
Climb up and right following the clean slab to a bolt and friction move below the belay on a large ledge. Attention when rapping this pitch. Rope stretching 30m rap. Bivy Ledge: 2 x 20L water buckets in position. Possible single bivy platforms for 2-3 people. 1 person at the belay and 1-2 people 15m below on a small ledge.
Move up and right past two bolts to a hidden corner. Continue up this corner on trad to a ledge 120cm long slings at base of corner to avoid rope drag.
Up and right past two bolts and hard moves under a small roof. Then up past gear and 5 more bolts to belay
Climb up and left off belay. Past 3 bolts to crux. Then follow jugs through overlap.
Head right on ramp for 10m the up left facing corner. Look for bolt out right. Hand traverse out right to easy groove and belay.
Head left off belay down low. Up past two bolts on wild prow. Join the right tending ramp with gear for 10 m and then up left past bolt and up. To easy left traverse To belay. On thé ramp if you look up and right you see some of the bolts from the unfinished rap bolted line to the right of the route. Don’t head up and right to the far bolt at the end of the ramp. The pitch heads up and back left to finish in the wet corner directly above the belay of pitch 9. The rap line goes down this corner. 25m rap straight down corner, then 20m rap to reach belay of pitch 9.
Single rack + 2x 0.75&1. Climb up hollow flake( be careful) past two bolts. Hard mantle and face above. Climb middle clean crack up and left to jugs at the lip. Up 5m to stance belay. Avoid chossy crack and blocks on the right.
Single rack. Climb face above belay.then up right trending ramp for 5m. Head up. Place a # 1 then layback up the face past 2 bolts.
Single rack to #3. Climb out left past dyke. Up slab past 3 bolts. At the 4th bolt stand up and go right up seam/ dyke. Step low at last bolt then up on jugs.
Leave belay to the right and up ramp. Drift slowly right on slabs and overlaps. Wild Dykes joins the unfinished rap bolted project at the last bolt of this pitch. The final two pitches are shared with this route.
Up slab and onto big flake. At top of flake straight up the face. Belay on the big ledge below the finger crack.
Climb splitter fingers to the summit. |
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| Seven Nation Army, 20 | 20 | 0m | 7 |
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The striking shoot or ‘white stripe’ of a slip visible from Chasm Crag carpark to the right of the Charismatic Wall, off of Pk 1665. Thirteen pitches. Start up vegetated slabs with no natural protection, but the rock quality improves, with sharp white quartz and good edges. Two bolts were placed on lead to protect the second pitch, where there was insufficient natural protection, and about five more bolts on the descent for rappelling.
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