Rhubarb Buttress
Peak Area Index

Rhubarb Buttress Topo

1. The Way of the Gone Wives (6b+) easy lower wall followed by thin flake.

2. Custard pie in Your Eye (6c) ashallow groove and bulge to tree belay.

3. Cry Havoc (6c) short wall and obvious scooped groove.

4. Fallout Zone (6c) wall with bulges at top.

5. Gaseous Exchange (6c+) * shallow groove. Technical wall leftwards above bulge.

6. Chemical Weapons (6c+) * delicate lower wall, difficult bulge and technical wall.

7. Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb (6b+) * pleasant lower wall and rib.

8. Semolina Sunday (7a) easy lower and very technical finish on wall left of groove.

9. The Garlic Twist (6b+) direct line via slight bulge with difficulties. Airy.

10. Brief Camouflage (6c) * direct line which is technical from the break. Good.

11. The Day of the Long Knives (7b+) * technical wall climbing, slabby towards the top. No belay as yet.

12. Feline Fine (6c) * pleasant and technical face. Stainless hangers.

13. The Fat Ginger Cat (7a+) * more pleasant face climbing. Fingery

14. Turbo-Charged Monster Mouse (7a+) * direct and fine climbing, the best hereabouts. Hard after 2nd BR.

15. Thrash Your Woodie (7b) fingery and technical moves above break.

16. Me Tarzan (7b+) * powerful bulge and desperate scoop.

17. Desire (8a+) * impressive bulge and scoop left of even more impressive ivy strand.

The next series of routes are situated 30m to the right, at a slightly higher level. A prominent overlap guards entry to the upper walls.

Zebedee Visits the Clinic E6 6b powerful bulge, BR and 2PRs to lower-off. Needs cleaning.

Blue Arsed Fly E6 6b * desperate bulge marked by long sling.

The Rainmaker (7b+) desperate start leads to scoop and tree above.

Blood Transfusion E4 6b * hard start, crux past BR, then vague arete, TR, above.

Further to the right and at a lower level close to the path are two more sports routes.

Ladies Fingers (7b) * technical and fingery climbing up the left-hand side of the face.

The European Female (7a) * fine face with technical lower bulge.