LANCASHIRE ROCK

This site is a digital copy of the 1997 BMC guidebook to rock climbing in Lancashire

Twilight Buttress

  • 9 - Twilight

    Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (Pre-1975)
    Rating: 0

    To the left of the prominent overhang climb the winding crack on the left of the buttress passing through two bulges.

  • 10 - Neetabulb

    Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -1970
    Rating: 1

    Start two metres to the right of Twilight at a short crack. Climb the wall above the crack to a break below the overhang. Climb this using a thin crack.

  • 11 - Friday the 13th

    Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -1993
    Rating: 1

    Climb Neetabulb to the break, then from a good handhold just left of the crack, move up left to a slot and finish direct.

  • 12 - Talcum

    Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1996
    Rating: 0

    Climb the thin, left-slanting diagonal crack, then the wall above. Often damp.

  • 13 - Parasol

    Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1975)
    Rating: 0

    Climb the obvious wide crackline in the front face of the detached block. Step right at the top.