Two small but compact venues that offer some great deep water soloing. Craig Stirling, in the south, became the venue for Scotland's first ever deep-water soloing festival in 2006. The cliff is split into two buttresses, the water is deep, and the crag reaches eighteen metres in height; thankfully the cruxes of all routes are below 13m - perfect for soloing. The rock is a contorted and banded schist, with amazing texture. Further north is the beautiful east-facing wall of vertical granite known as the Red Tower.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Wet Pussy | Craig Stirling | 2 | 6c S3 |
2 |
Depth Charge | Craig Stirling | 2 | 6a S3 |
3 |
Depth Charge Direct | Craig Stirling | 3 | 6b+ S1 |
4 |
War Without Tears | Craig Stirling | 2 | 7b S1 |
5 |
Jeux Sans Frontiers | Craig Stirling | 1 | 6b+ S1 |
6 |
Upper East Girdle | Craig Stirling | 2 | 5a S1 |
7 |
Eastern Girdle | Craig Stirling | 1 | 4a S1 |
8 |
Stirling Bomber | Craig Stirling | 6b S0 | |
9 |
Lean Meat | Craig Stirling | 3 | 6b+ S1 |
10 |
Raw Meat | Craig Stirling | 2 | 6c S2 |
11 |
Red Meat | Craig Stirling | 1 | 7a S1 |
12 |
Jack Sprat | Craig Stirling | 1 | 6b S1 |
13 |
Roaring Forties | Craig Stirling | 2 | 7a+ S0 |
14 |
Sushi | Craig Stirling | 3 | 7c S1 |
15 |
Hell and High Water | Craig Stirling | 2 | 7a S2 |
16 |
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Craig Stirling | 3 | 6c S3 |
17 |
Western Girdle | Craig Stirling | 1 | 6b+ S3 |
1 |
Mowgli | The Red Tower | 2 | 6c+ S2 |
2 |
Baloo | The Red Tower | 1 | 7a S1 |
3 |
Shere Khan | The Red Tower | 3 | 7c+ S1 |
4 |
Hole in the Wall | The Red Tower | 3 | 7a+ S1 |
5 |
Bagheera | The Red Tower | 3 | 7b+ S2 |
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