Crag X - Topo
1. Bag of 'X' (6c+) better than it looks with a short crux 2. Xactly (6b) straight up face and leftwards through bulge 3. X Box (6b) bulge and slab to steep exit. 4. X Marks the Spot (6a+) easiest on the crag. Short crux over a bulge. Rebolted and recleane. New belay. 5. Ham and X (6b) easy start to steep layaway finale. 6. Xtermination (6a+) easy to ledge and short technical wall 7. Xageration (6b) easy start over ledges and technical final. 8. In the X Team (6b) easy start to intricate finale. 9.
eXit Stage Left (6a) pleasant shallow groove. Rebolted
and recleaned. New belay. 10. The X Files (6b+) tricky lower bulgeRebolted and recleaned. New belay 11.
eXtra Time (6b+) direct to the right with intricate boulge. Rebolted
and recleaned. New belay 12. Red X (6c+) * best route off platform. Fine intricate climbing. Rebolted and recleaned. New belay. 13. Great eXpectations (6c) ** varied. Mid-height difficulties. Unusual finish. Rebolted and recleaned. New belay 14.
Certificate X (7b) ** unusual . Technical delicate face with an on/off finish.
Rebolted and recleaned. New
belay 15. Malcolm X (7b) * now straightened out with mid-height difficulties. Rebolted and recleaned. New belay 16.
Top MarX (7a+) * excellent face with a long reach at the crux. Rebolted
and recleaned. New belay 17.
XXXX (7b) ** perhaps the best on the crag. Superb sustained face climbing
and fingery. Rebolted and recleaned. New
belay 18.
Little Blue Lies (7b+) * more open fingery climbing. Rebolted
and recleaned. 19.
Y Should I? (7b+) * a tough little cookie, powerful, blind with a naughty
finish. Rebolted and recleaned. 20. Xcursion (7c+) desperate crux through bulge 21. X.T.C. (7a+) short, hard and innocuous crux. 22.
X Partridge (7a+) mean bulge at right-hand side of crag Zed's Dead Baby (7a) Although not marked, this unusual route traverses across the upper parts of the X Files, Red X and into great expectations The final difficult section lies ahead in gaining Certificate X before moving up into the break to reach the belay of MalcolmX. |