Curbar Edge has always had a reputation as a mean taskmaster. This was originally based on the legendary routes but the more recent bouldering development has done little to dispel this impression. The bouldering is dotted along the edge in small clusters. Some of it is on separate boulder jumbles and some is the lower sections and starts to routes. The main attractions are some eye-catching walls and aretes although these tend to be quite spread out. The classics of Art of Japan, The Art of White Hat Wearing and Sean\'s Arete are destination problems. There are also two excellent sections with good easy problems: the Cioch Top Boulders and the nearby Trench, and the delightful Little Quarry which also happens to be the closest spot to the parking.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
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1 |
Marx's Wall | Curbar Woods | 1 | f7A |
2 |
Curbar Your Enthusiasm | Curbar Woods | 1 | f6A+ |
3 |
Happy Slapper | Curbar Woods | f5 | |
4 |
Happy House | Curbar Woods | 1 | f6B |
5 |
Blue Hawaii | Curbar Woods | 1 | f6C+ |
6 |
The Art of White Hat Wearing | Curbar Woods | 3 | f7B |
7 |
Jimmy Hat | Curbar Woods | 1 | f7C |
8 |
Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool | Curbar Woods | 1 | f7A+ |
9 |
Somebody's Arete | Curbar Woods | f7A | |
1 |
Left Arete | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f4 |
2 |
Crispy Roof | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f5 |
3 |
Crispy Noodling | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f6B+ |
4 |
Crispy Rib | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f6A+ |
5 |
Cioch Top A | Cioch Boulders Area | f3 | |
6 |
Cioch Top B | Cioch Boulders Area | f4 | |
7 |
Chekov | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f4+ |
8 |
Scotty | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f4 |
9 |
Bones | Cioch Boulders Area | f3 | |
10 |
Mister Spock | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f5 |
11 |
Uhuru | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f5+ |
12 |
Sulu | Cioch Boulders Area | f3+ | |
13 |
Boots in the Woods | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f6B |
14 |
Fissure Boysen | Cioch Boulders Area | f6A | |
15 |
Flea Circus Start | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f6A |
16 |
Cioch Variations Start | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f5+ |
17 |
Baltic State | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f6C |
18 |
Big Friday | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f7C |
19 |
Hopper | Cioch Boulders Area | f5 | |
20 |
Skipper | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f6B+ |
21 |
Scroll On | Cioch Boulders Area | f6A | |
22 |
Scroll Power | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f7B |
23 |
Will Power | Cioch Boulders Area | f6C | |
24 |
Sep Arete | Cioch Boulders Area | f6B+ | |
25 |
Jutland | Cioch Boulders Area | f6A | |
26 |
Crunchy Wall | Cioch Boulders Area | f6A | |
27 |
Crunchy Nut Crack | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f6B+ |
28 |
Big Jesus | Cioch Boulders Area | 1 | f7A+ |
29 |
Petit Jesu | Cioch Boulders Area | 2 | f7A |
30 |
Bump 'n' Grind | Cioch Boulders Area | f6C | |
1 |
The Beagus Has Landed | Ultimate Gritstone Area | 1 | f7A+ |
2 |
Sit Up and Beg | Ultimate Gritstone Area | f7A | |
3 |
Mono or Nono? | Ultimate Gritstone Area | 1 | f7B |
4 |
The Green Mile | Ultimate Gritstone Area | 1 | f6C+ |
5 |
The Ultimate Gritstone Experience | Ultimate Gritstone Area | 3 | f6C |
6 |
Touch Winky | Ultimate Gritstone Area | 1 | f7B |
1 |
Downhill Gardener | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f7A+ |
2 |
Button Moon | Moon Buttress Area | 2 | f5+ |
3 |
Rat Scabies Start | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
4 |
Last Light | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6C |
5 |
John's Arete Start | Moon Buttress Area | f5+ | |
6 |
Wee-Wob | Moon Buttress Area | f5 | |
7 |
Middle T | Moon Buttress Area | f6A | |
8 |
The Start of the Affair | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
9 |
Left Eliminette | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f5+ |
10 |
Right Eliminette | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f5+ |
11 |
Incipient Cracks | Moon Buttress Area | f6A | |
12 |
Low T | Moon Buttress Area | f7A | |
13 |
Scrote | Moon Buttress Area | f3+ | |
14 |
Elimarette | Moon Buttress Area | f6A+ | |
15 |
Left Trench Arete | Moon Buttress Area | f4 | |
16 |
Trench Wall | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
17 |
Trench Flakes | Moon Buttress Area | 3 | f6B+ |
18 |
Ringworm | Moon Buttress Area | 2 | f5+ |
19 |
Trench Hole | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f4+ |
20 |
Pigeon Arete | Moon Buttress Area | f6A+ | |
21 |
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Moon Buttress Area | 2 | f7A+ |
22 |
Clouded Judgement | Moon Buttress Area | 2 | f7A+ |
23 |
Never Spanned | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f8A |
24 |
Cirrus | Moon Buttress Area | f4 | |
25 |
Break a Leg | Moon Buttress Area | f5+ | |
26 |
I'll Be Bob | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f7A+ |
27 |
The Unreachable Star | Moon Buttress Area | 3 | f6B+ |
28 |
Trouser Jazz | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6C+ |
29 |
The Dog's Hole | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
30 |
Smiling Arete | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f5 |
31 |
Smiling Buttress | Moon Buttress Area | 3 | f8B |
32 |
Art of Japan | Moon Buttress Area | 3 | f6C |
33 |
Combat les Pellicules Direct | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6C |
34 |
Early Morning Day | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
35 |
Spandex | Moon Buttress Area | f6C | |
36 |
Slab Mantel | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f4+ |
37 |
Slab Arete | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f5 |
38 |
Brogue Slab | Moon Buttress Area | f5 | |
39 |
Brogue Raider | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f6C |
40 |
Gordon Brown Superhero | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f4+ |
41 |
Corner Mount | Moon Buttress Area | f4+ | |
42 |
Crowbar | Moon Buttress Area | f5 | |
43 |
Bruno Mindhorn | Moon Buttress Area | 1 | f7A+ |
44 |
Break Out the Trumpets | Moon Buttress Area | f7A | |
1 |
Lifeseeker | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 2 | f6C |
2 |
Fidget | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 3 | f6C |
3 |
Six Syllables or Less | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 1 | f6C |
4 |
Rise of the Robots | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 2 | f6A+ |
5 |
Mushroom Cap | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f5+ | |
6 |
Paddestoel | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f5 | |
7 |
Champignon | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f5 | |
8 |
Pilz | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f4+ | |
9 |
Sheep Pit Crack Left | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f5 | |
10 |
The Sheep Pit | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 1 | f6B |
11 |
The Sheep Pit Right | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 1 | f6C |
12 |
Curb Crawler | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 1 | f7B+ |
13 |
Sheep Pit Crack Right | Overtaker's Buttress Area | f4+ | |
14 |
Mark of the Beaks | Overtaker's Buttress Area | 2 | f7A |
1 |
Cartons and Curpets | Baron's Wall | 1 | f6B |
2 |
Smoke ont' Watter Start | Baron's Wall | 2 | f6A+ |
3 |
Talon Man | Baron's Wall | 2 | f6B |
4 |
Baron's Direct | Baron's Wall | 1 | f6A |
5 |
Baron's Wall Start | Baron's Wall | 1 | f5 |
6 |
Baron's Wall Traverse | Baron's Wall | f6A | |
1 |
Lepton | Main Edge | 2 | f6C+ |
2 |
Lepton Wall | Main Edge | 1 | f6A |
3 |
Finger Distance Start | Main Edge | 2 | f6B+ |
4 |
Neat | Main Edge | 2 | f5+ |
5 |
Curbar Corner | Main Edge | 3 | f5 |
6 |
Little Stiffer | Main Edge | 1 | f6A |
7 |
Jamie and His Magic Torch | Main Edge | 2 | f7B |
8 |
Ramboid | Main Edge | 1 | f7B |
9 |
Janus Start | Main Edge | 1 | f6A |
10 |
Spray Mane | Main Edge | 1 | f7B |
11 |
Sean's Arete | Main Edge | 3 | f7B |
12 |
The Severed Garden | Main Edge | f6C | |
13 |
Cubism | Main Edge | 1 | f5 |
14 |
The Boxer | Main Edge | f4+ | |
1 |
Buying Time | Walk On By Quarry | f6A | |
2 |
Buy Buy | Walk On By Quarry | 1 | f6B+ |
3 |
Walk on By | Walk On By Quarry | 3 | f7C+ |
4 |
Dora's Drop-Off | Walk On By Quarry | 1 | f7A |
1 |
Curved Rib | Little Quarry | f3 | |
2 |
One Inch Crack | Little Quarry | f3 | |
3 |
One Inch Arete | Little Quarry | f3+ | |
4 |
The Letter L | Little Quarry | f5+ | |
5 |
Dressed Arete | Little Quarry | 1 | f6A |
6 |
Dressed Right | Little Quarry | f4 | |
7 |
Dress Up | Little Quarry | f5+ | |
8 |
Seams Simple Enough | Little Quarry | 1 | f5+ |
9 |
Chimney Crack | Little Quarry | 1 | f5 |
10 |
Ledge Wall | Little Quarry | f3+ | |
11 |
Thin Flake | Little Quarry | 1 | f4 |
12 |
The Sketch | Little Quarry | 1 | f4 |
13 |
Front Crack | Little Quarry | f3 | |
14 |
Front On | Little Quarry | 1 | f3+ |
15 |
Fishy | Little Quarry | 1 | f4 |
16 |
Chippy | Little Quarry | 1 | f5+ |
17 |
Chippy Direct | Little Quarry | f6A | |
18 |
Pamela's Promenade | Little Quarry | f3 | |
19 |
Bab's Bumble | Little Quarry | f3 | |
20 |
Thomas the Tanked Up Engine | Little Quarry | 3 | f6A+ |
21 |
The Phat Controller | Little Quarry | 1 | f6B+ |
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