Devil's Gorge

1. Ladywriter HS takes the dirty groove below the footbridge finishing leftwards via cracks.

2. Portabella Blues HS tackles the overlaps above the groove of Ladywriter and then the slab directly below above to finish just left of the bridge.

3. A Brown Shade of Lime VS 4c move up the leftwards trending crackline before exiting right and then straight up the slab.

4. Single-handed Sailor HVS 4c begins 7m further right and climbs the slab direct past two bushes.

5. Follow me Home E1 5a * start in the centre of the slab and climb it between two bushes to reach a bar - mine's a pint. Follow the overlap slightly leftwards to the top.

6. Angel of Mercy E2 5a * From the bar on Follow Me Home, step right and up and over the overhang to climb the slab, bold.

7. Grey Tripper E2 5a from 3m right again, climb up to a tree and continue up the slab above to an overhang. Step right and over this and climb the slab above just left of a faint rib.

8. News HVS 4c climbs the slab and broken ramp o and the clean slab above.

9. Where we Going HS the awful corner bounding the slab.

10. Cave Wall (6c+) exits rightwards from Where we Going to climb the situ wall past a mixture of situ gear, most of it BRs.

11. Echoes (7a+) Unfortunately dirty. Well worth doing when clean. Climb the lower wall from just left of a small cave until difficult moves gain the large half-height cave.

12. Grand Canyon (7b+) *** a true classic of the area taking the centre of the finest section of wall in the quarry. The climbing is varied ranging from fingery low down to all out stamina moves high up. Awaits a finish.

13. Broccoli and Ice-cream (7b) * another fine route, well glued back together which unfortunately suffers from the dreaded dirt. The start is dirty and the crux section short but complex.

14. An Ivory Smile (7c) * needs recleaning and regearing. An impressive route straight up the centre of the wall. Significantly harder than Canyon.

15. The Ten Year Fog (7b+) * needs recleaning and regearing. The next line to the right again gives some very hard climbing.

16. Bananas and Coffee (7a+) * was superb when first done but has fallen into disrepair. A relatively easy leftwards start gains a glacis. The rightwards line above gives a difficult crux finale which is increased by the next to last clip!

17. What's in a Word (7a+) * another fine route when clean that breaks rightwards from the glacis on Bananas and Coffee to almost finish on the bridge.

18. Uhu E4 5c climbs the broken wall above a ramp to finish under the bridge's right-hand side.

19. Communiqué E4 5c follows the ramp line out of Uhu to finish via a steep, broken crackline.

20. Comfortably Numb (7a) a desperately fingery route at the entrance to the gorge.