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Battered
Area | Sector | Pitches | FAGrade | Grade | Length | Bolts | Top | Setters | year |
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St Catherine | Batta NE face | 5 | E4 5b, 4a, 4b, 6a, 4c | 7b | trad | Max Dutson, Sam Harvie, Dave Lucas | 2014 |
1) 5b, 35m. Climb the offwidth to a sloping ledge belay before it steepens.
2) 4a, 30m. Continue up the corner crack and belay next to a big chimney to your left.
3) 4b, 40m. Climb the chimney on your left and then follow the ramp and cracks to a dome shaped boulder. Pass this on the left hand side and then belay on the ledge.
4) 6a, 40m. Continue up crack climbing underneath an arch passing a bolt and a peg (placed before first recorded ascent) as it trends left. As the arch runs out climb through the roof on crimps and 5 thin cracks up and left. To belay on a small ledge and crack.
5) 4c, 60m. Continue up chimney to the top ledge. The route is shown in the image below as the left hand of the three routes marked
[Dave]
Pitches | FAGrade | est. grade | Length | Bolts | Top | Setters | year |
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5 | E4 5b, 4a, 4b, 6a, 4c | 7b | trad | Max Dutson, Sam Harvie, Dave Lucas | 2014 |
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