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Roaches Clouds - Gritstone
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Top 20 problems: (view all problems)
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Lip Traverse (6C+) -
Trust (7A) -
Swivel Finger (6B)
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Hard Arete (7A+) -
Finger of Fate (6B) -
Tetris (7C (soft)) -
Milky Buttons (7B (soft))
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Marxist Undertones (6A+)
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Communist Crack (5+)
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Persistence (6B (hard)) -
Left Arete (6A)
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Nadin's Secret Finger (7B+)
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Marxist Undertones RH (6B)
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Marxist Undertones LH (6B)
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Who Needs Ready Brek? (7C) -
Icarus Upstart (6B+)
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The Pinnacle of Human Achievement (6B (soft))
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Columns (7C+ (hard))
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Four Lions (7B) -
The Ugly Brother (7A+ (soft))
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| Second Cloud | |||||
| 5+ |
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Communist Crack | Layback confidently up the awesome flake. | ||
| 6B |
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Marxist Undertones LH | With right hand in the hole, use a flake to the left and snatch for the ledge. Finish up the arete above. | ||
| 6A+ |
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Marxist Undertones | From the hole in the wall, snatch for the ledge. Finish up the arete above. | ||
| 6B |
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Marxist Undertones RH | From the undercuts on the right, snatch for the ledge. Finish up the arete above. | ||
| 7B+ |
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Nadin's Secret Finger | Start a little way up the grass slope. From here, stretch rightwards to gain the poor hold on the arete/face. Swing onto this (too much swing will throw you violently downhill) and follow improving holds diagonally up and right to gain Finger of Fate. | ||
| 6B |
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Finger of Fate | The highball arete, on its left. | ||
| Third Cloud | |||||
| 6B (hard) |
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Persistence | Climb challenging flakes on the left end of the wall. | ||
| 7C |
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Who Needs Ready Brek? | Start up Persistence, then head right along the enticing seam to slopers and a big move up to finish. | ||
| 6B+ |
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Icarus Upstart | Direct start to Icarus Allsorts (an E4 6a on the far right of the buttress with a cave at the base). Start with RH in pocket on the right lip of the cave and jump for a good hold, use undecut to gain jub, mantel this. From here boulders may wish to step off right, alternatively continue to the ledge at an overall grade of E4 6a/6b. | ||
| 6B (soft) |
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The Pinnacle of Human Achievement | Just right of the Icarus cave is a low narrow prow. Climb this from a sit start. | ||
| Fourth Cloud Boulder | |||||
| 7A+ (soft) |
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The Ugly Brother | On the boulder beneath Tetris etc. is a low roof. Start on crimps under the lip, pull up to rails then move up left on slopers to finish. | ||
| 6A |
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Left Arete | The left arete of the block. | ||
| 7B |
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Four Lions | A pumpy alternative finish to Hard Arete. Start up Hard Arete, then head leftwards along a line of slopers until a high left hand gaston can be gained. From here rock onto the shelf to finish. | ||
| 7A+ |
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Hard Arete | From standing, tackle the arete. | ||
| 7C (soft) |
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Tetris | Sitstart the arete and battle into the Hard Arete problem. | ||
| 7C+ (hard) |
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Columns | Start up Tetris and break out right to finish along the lip traverse and up the far arete, or up Trust. | ||
| 7A |
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Trust | Gain the hanging slab and rock onto it. | ||
| 6C+ |
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Lip Traverse | From the start of Trust, traverse right to finish up the arete. | ||
| Fourth Cloud Buttress | |||||
| 6A+ |
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Holdless Slab Arete | The left arete. | ||
| 6A |
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Holdless Slab | Above and left of the boulder, a smooth slab holds court. Bow your toes and dance upon the clouds. | ||
| 7B (soft) |
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Milky Buttons | Above the boulder, the main buttress presents an appealing open scoop. Milk it. | ||
| Nth Cloud | |||||
| 6B |
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The Flakes | Left of Swivel Finger, climb good flakes to an unwelcoming scoop, above an unfriendly landing. | ||
| 6B |
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Swivel Finger | The precarious arete is well worth seeking out. | ||
| 8A+ (soft) |
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The Nth Power | The Wall of flakes right of Swivel Finger via a mono and dish also. Stand start. Tackle the wall direct, finish direct up the groove. | ||
| 6B |
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Hug & Thug | Climbs the jutting prow below Metaphysical scoop. Sit start with hands matched on obvious ledge on front of prow, then climb the prow direct using the slopey arete/rib feature for your lft hand and the sidepulls on the green wall round the to the right with your right hand. Nice few moves involving heel hooking and slapping.Not in the any guide. | ||
| 5th cloud | |||||
| 7C+ |
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The imperfect Catch | Starting with RH on the leftmost part of the slopey ledge on darkest cloud and LH on an undercut, bust a move rightwards to catch an okish edge, proceed straight up from here using the left arete and pinches for the RH, last moves involve cunning | ||
| 8A (soft) |
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The Darkest Cloud | Starting from sitting on double flat undercuts+ footlock, head direct up the blunt prow via a series of crimps slopers pinches. | ||
| Crystal Voyager | |||||
| 7B+ |
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Crystal Voyager | Tackle the middle of the wall, to gain the flakeline and pockets near the top. Highball. | ||
| 6B |
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Spankosaurus Does Chicago | Climb the big arete on the right. | ||
- nai sent Persistence, Third Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Thursday 02 Feb 2012, details
- nai sent Trust, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Thursday 02 Feb 2012, details
- r-man sent Tetris, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Friday 13 Jan 2012, details
- Krank sent Finger of Fate, Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- Krank sent Persistence, Third Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- Krank sent Lip Traverse, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Sunday 27 Mar 2011, details
- Krank sent Trust, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- Krank sent Hard Arete, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- Krank sent Left Arete, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- Krank sent Swivel Finger, Nth Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Sunday 13 Mar 2011, details
- mea03jdg sent Marxist Undertones , Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- mea03jdg sent Communist Crack, Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- mea03jdg sent Persistence, Third Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Friday 18 Feb 2011, details
- mea03jdg sent Swivel Finger, Nth Cloud, Roaches Clouds, date: Date not known, details
- highrepute sent Hard Arete, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Tuesday 08 Feb 2011, details
- highrepute sent Milky Buttons, Fourth Cloud Buttress, Roaches Clouds, date: Tuesday 08 Feb 2011, details
- joealexander sent Left Arete, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Sunday 11 Apr 2010, details
- duma sent Tetris, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds, date: Saturday 06 Aug 2005, details
Latest Problem Updates:
- Four Lions, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 07/11/2011 at 08:54AM
- Spankosaurus Does Chicago, Crystal Voyager, Roaches Clouds updated on 30/08/2011 at 02:38PM
- Crystal Voyager, Crystal Voyager, Roaches Clouds updated on 30/08/2011 at 02:38PM
- Hug & Thug, Nth Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 14/07/2011 at 07:52PM
- Tetris, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 11/04/2011 at 09:47PM
- Finger of Fate, Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 27/03/2011 at 07:29PM
- Lip Traverse, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 27/03/2011 at 07:24PM
- Trust, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 27/03/2011 at 07:22PM
- Hard Arete, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 27/03/2011 at 07:20PM
- Swivel Finger, Nth Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 18/02/2011 at 04:01PM
- Persistence, Third Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 18/02/2011 at 04:00PM
- Marxist Undertones , Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 18/02/2011 at 03:59PM
- Communist Crack, Second Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 18/02/2011 at 03:58PM
- Milky Buttons, Fourth Cloud Buttress, Roaches Clouds updated on 08/02/2011 at 11:33PM
- Columns, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 26/11/2010 at 08:22PM
- The Nth Power, Nth Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 26/11/2010 at 12:17PM
- The Darkest Cloud, 5th cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 20/11/2010 at 03:22PM
- The imperfect Catch, 5th cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 20/11/2010 at 03:22PM
- The Ugly Brother, Fourth Cloud Boulder, Roaches Clouds updated on 05/10/2010 at 03:13PM
- Icarus Upstart, Third Cloud, Roaches Clouds updated on 05/10/2010 at 03:13PM