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Red Block Area

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Updated 22 December 2024, by Richard Thomson.

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Part of

Continue down the main farm track, just over the next rise and on your right is a hill with 3
buttresses. The higher buttress & middle buttress (Mr & Mrs Enormous) and the red block
buttress at the base. Routes described from left to right (from the base of the hill up) and
the first route starts on the small west face of the red block buttress.

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Aspect
South
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 Slapstick, 22 22 10m 4
1.02

  • P1
  • 22
  • 10m
  • 4

Starting from the boulder climb the face then slap your way up the right arete. Move left at the top onto the left arete. This route has been rebolted and the new hanging belay is right in the middle of the crux, so to savor all this climb has to offer, clip the belay and top out, belay off the original belay higher up.


 Turtle Power, 20 20 15m 4
1.02

  • P1
  • 20
  • 15m
  • 4

Around the corner on the south facing wall. Climb the middle of the red face. Hard moves at the start and finish.


 Ro Shambo, 16 16 10m 3
0

  • P1
  • 16
  • 10m
  • 3

Climb the arete on the right hand end of the lower wall. (DBC belay)


 Appetite For Destruction, 20 20 10m 3
0

  • P1
  • 20
  • 10m
  • 3

Climb the small right facing corner to the right of the roof, then up the small head wall.


 Totalling Dad’s Car, 26 26 8m 3
2.01

  • P1
  • 26
  • 8m
  • 3

The obvious roof. Climb through the roof and pull onto the short head wall above. (DRB, belay)


 Little Wee Baby Enormous, 19 19 10m 3
0

The next 2 routes are on the middle buttress, access is gained by scrambling
up to the right


  • P1
  • 19
  • 10m
  • 3

Climb the left hand end of the middle tower


 Mrs Enormous, 22 22 10m 3
0

  • P1
  • 22
  • 10m
  • 3

Climb the right hand end of the middle tower.


 Mr Enormous, 22 22 10m 3
0

The routes on the top tower


  • P1
  • 22
  • 10m
  • 3

Start between the boulder and the face. Climb the left hand end of the tower.


 Tiny Enormous, 20 20 10m 2
0

  • P1
  • 20
  • 10m
  • 2

Start off the large boulder and continue up the short head wall.


 Lad, 23 23 6m 2
0

  • P1
  • 23
  • 6m
  • 2

On a free standing pinnacle 10m to the right.


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