Rhubarb Buttress Topo

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Rhubarb Buttress Topo

1. The Way of the Gone Wives (6b+) easy lower wall followed by thin flake.

2. Custard pie in Your Eye (6c) a shallow groove and bulge to tree belay.

3. Cry Havoc (6c) short wall and obvious scooped groove.

4. Fallout Zone (6c) wall with bulges at top.

5. Gaseous Exchange (6c+) * shallow groove. Technical wall leftwards above bulge.

6. Chemical Weapons (6c+) * delicate lower wall, difficult bulge and technical wall.

7. Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb (6b+) * pleasant lower wall and rib.

8. Semolina Sunday (7a) easy lower and very technical finish on wall left of groove.

9. The Garlic Twist (6b+) direct line via slight bulge with difficulties. Airy.

10. Brief Camouflage (6c) * direct line which is technical from the break. Good.

11. The Day of the Long Knives (7b+) * technical wall climbing, slabby towards the top. No belay as yet.

12. Feline Fine (6c) * pleasant and technical face. Stainless hangers.

13. The Fat Ginger Cat (7a+) * more pleasant face climbing. Fingery

14. Turbo-Charged Monster Mouse (7a+) * direct and fine climbing, the best hereabouts. Hard after 2nd BR.

15. Thrash Your Woodie (7b) fingery and technical moves above break.

16. Me Tarzan (7b+) * powerful bulge and desperate scoop.

17. Desire (8a+) * impressive bulge and scoop left of even more impressive ivy strand.

The next series of routes are situated 30m to the right, at a slightly higher level. A prominent overlap guards entry to the upper walls.

Zebedee Visits the Clinic E6 6b powerful bulge, BR and 2PRs to lower-off. Needs cleaning.

Blue Arsed Fly E6 6b * desperate bulge marked by long sling.

The Rainmaker (7b+) desperate start leads to scoop and tree above.

Blood Transfusion E4 6b * hard start, crux past BR, then vague arete, TR, above.

Further to the right and at a lower level close to the path are two more sports routes.

Ladies Fingers (7b) * technical and fingery climbing up the left-hand side of the face.

The European Female (7a) * fine face with technical lower bulge.