Although close to the busy Upper and Lower Tiers at the Roaches, the Skyline area offers climbing in much quieter and more remote setting. The Skyline edge presents a series of small buttresses dotted along the ridge, often rising out of a tree-covered base. The main path runs along the top of the ridge meaning that there is little passing traffic and the only other people you are likely to meet are other climbers who have put in the effort to walk that bit further. Once under the crag you will find rock and routes as good as on the main Roaches crags with some real gems hidden away.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Honky Tonk | Far Skyline Buttress | 2 | S 4a |
2 |
Entente Cordiale | Far Skyline Buttress | 1 | E3 5c |
3 |
The Chimney | Far Skyline Buttress | 1 | S 4b |
4 |
Black Ram Arete | Far Skyline Buttress | 1 | VS 4c |
5 |
Black Ram | Far Skyline Buttress | VD | |
1 |
Cave Arete | Cave Buttress | 1 | S 4a |
2 |
Stephen | Cave Buttress | 1 | VS 5a |
3 |
Cave Crack | Cave Buttress | 1 | HVS 5a |
4 |
King Swing | Cave Buttress | VS 5a | |
5 |
Connector | Cave Buttress | VS 4b | |
6 |
Joiner | Cave Buttress | 1 | VD |
1 |
Willow Farm | Hard Very Far Skyline | 2 | E4 6a |
2 |
Track of the Cat | Hard Very Far Skyline | 3 | E5 6a |
3 |
Nature Trail | Hard Very Far Skyline | 1 | E5 6b |
4 |
Wings of Unreason | Hard Very Far Skyline | 3 | E4 6a |
5 |
Counterstroke of Equity | Hard Very Far Skyline | 1 | E5 6c |
6 |
Prelude to Space | Hard Very Far Skyline | 2 | HVS 4c |
1 |
Triple Point | Very Far Skyline | 1 | E1 5c |
2 |
Wild Thing | Very Far Skyline | 2 | HVS 5c |
3 |
Entropy's Jaw | Very Far Skyline | 3 | E5 6b |
4 |
Script for a Tier | Very Far Skyline | 1 | E6 6c |
5 |
Mild Thing | Very Far Skyline | 1 | Diff |
1 |
Melaleucion | Alpha Buttress | 1 | HVS 5a |
2 |
Devotoed | Alpha Buttress | VS 5a | |
3 |
Alpha | Alpha Buttress | 1 | VD |
4 |
Alpha Arete | Alpha Buttress | 1 | S 4a |
5 |
Breakfast Corner | Alpha Buttress | M | |
6 |
Formative Years | Alpha Buttress | E3 6a | |
7 |
Breakfast Problem | Alpha Buttress | 1 | VD |
8 |
Days Gone By | Alpha Buttress | 1 | S 4a |
9 |
San Melas | Alpha Buttress | 3 | E3 5c |
10 |
Hallow to our Men | Alpha Buttress | 1 | E4 6b |
11 |
Mantis | Alpha Buttress | 3 | E1 5b |
12 |
Sennapod | Alpha Buttress | VD | |
13 |
Sennapod Crack | Alpha Buttress | VD | |
14 |
39th Step | Alpha Buttress | E2 6a | |
15 |
Wallaby Wall | Alpha Buttress | 1 | HS 4b |
16 |
Definitive Gaze | Alpha Buttress | 1 | E1 5c |
17 |
Right-hand Route | Alpha Buttress | 2 | S 4a |
18 |
Looking for Today | Alpha Buttress | 1 | HVS 5b |
1 |
Pinnacle Crack | Skyline Buttress | Diff | |
2 |
Split Personality | Skyline Buttress | E1 5b | |
3 |
Pinnacle Slab | Skyline Buttress | HVD | |
4 |
Pinnacle Arete | Skyline Buttress | 1 | VS 4c |
5 |
Come Girl | Skyline Buttress | HS 4b | |
6 |
Mantelshelf Slab | Skyline Buttress | 1 | VS 4b |
7 |
Enigma Variation | Skyline Buttress | 2 | E2 5b |
8 |
Karabiner Chimney | Skyline Buttress | 1 | HVD |
9 |
Karabiner Slab | Skyline Buttress | 1 | HVS 4c |
10 |
Karabiner Cracks | Skyline Buttress | Diff | |
11 |
Slab and Arete | Skyline Buttress | 2 | S 4a |
12 |
Slips | Skyline Buttress | E3 6a | |
13 |
Drop Acid | Skyline Buttress | E4 6a | |
14 |
Acid Drop | Skyline Buttress | 2 | E4 5c |
15 |
Skytrain | Skyline Buttress | 1 | E2 5b |
1 |
Tower Eliminate | Tower Buttress | 1 | HVS 5b |
2 |
Tower Face | Tower Buttress | 1 | E2 5b |
3 |
Tower Chimney | Tower Buttress | 1 | Diff |
4 |
Perched Block Arete | Tower Buttress | 2 | VD |
5 |
Thrug | Tower Buttress | 2 | VS 5a |
6 |
Bad Poynt | Tower Buttress | 1 | Diff |
7 |
Oversite | Tower Buttress | 1 | HVD |
8 |
Ogden | Tower Buttress | 2 | VD |
9 |
Ogden Arete | Tower Buttress | 1 | HS 4c |
10 |
Ogden Recess | Tower Buttress | VD | |
11 |
Black Pig | Tower Buttress | 1 | VS 4c |
12 |
Spare Rib | Tower Buttress | 1 | VS 4c |
1 |
Bad Sneakers | Safety Net | E2 5c | |
2 |
Spectrum | Safety Net | HVS 4c | |
3 |
Middleton's Motion | Safety Net | VS 4b | |
4 |
Topaz | Safety Net | 2 | E2 5b |
5 |
Strain Station | Safety Net | 1 | E4 5c |
6 |
Letter Box Gully | Safety Net | M | |
7 |
Letter Box Cracks | Safety Net | 1 | VS 4c |
8 |
Safety Net | Safety Net | 3 | E1 5b |
9 |
Shortcomings | Safety Net | 2 | E1 5c |
10 |
Left Twin Crack | Safety Net | HS 4b | |
11 |
Square Chimney | Safety Net | Diff | |
12 |
Trio Chimney | Safety Net | 1 | VD |
13 |
Substance | Safety Net | VS 4c | |
14 |
Lighthouse | Safety Net | VD | |
15 |
Ralph's Mantelshelves | Safety Net | S 4a | |
16 |
Rowan Tree Traverse | Safety Net | 1 | VD |
17 |
Pebbles on a Wessex Beach | Safety Net | E3 5c | |
18 |
Hank's Horror | Safety Net | E1 5b | |
1 |
Condor Slab | Condor Buttress | 2 | VS 4c |
2 |
A.M. Anaesthetics | Condor Buttress | 1 | HVS 4c |
3 |
Cracked Arete | Condor Buttress | HVD | |
4 |
Condor Chimney | Condor Buttress | VD | |
5 |
Nosepicker | Condor Buttress | E1 5a | |
6 |
Time to be Had | Condor Buttress | 1 | HVD |
7 |
Tobacco Road | Condor Buttress | 1 | VS 4c |
8 |
Wheeze | Condor Buttress | 1 | HVS 4c |
9 |
Bruno Flake | Condor Buttress | 1 | VS 4b |
10 |
Navy Cut | Condor Buttress | VD | |
11 |
Chicane | Condor Buttress | S 4a | |
12 |
Lung Cancer | Condor Buttress | S 3c |
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