This site is a digital copy of the 1997 BMC guidebook to rock climbing in Lancashire
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 1
From the right-hand side of the pit at a slightly higher level where the bank starts to rise, climb large ledges to a shelf and traverse left to the arête. Finish up a prominent, short, V-groove. Exposed.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 0
Start just to the right. Climb via a slot to the ledge and go straight up steep broken wall.
Grade: 4a | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 0
Follow the left-leading, open groove at the top of the bank via several ledges. Exit left at the top.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 1
Three metres to the right is a short, inverted, triangular slab. Climb the left edge of this to a large ledge on the arête. Finish up a short groove.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 0
Climb the centre of the slab, then straight over the overhang to the top.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1989
Rating: 0
Start three metres farther right and climb a short wall to a sandy ledge, then escape leftwards and finish up Judy.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 0
Bridge up the obvious corner at the left end of the wall and exit right on to the belay ledge.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 1
Start at the left end of the wall and climb to a peg on the arête. Continue to an interesting mantel on to the ledge.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 1
Start two metres to the right and climb bulging ledges. Continue past a peg using a finger-flake to the top.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 0
Start two metres to the right, behind a tree stump. Climb the lower wall to a jutting triangular ledge, then go straight up past a peg on the right.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 0
Climb the open corner, then step right at the top to finish.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 0
Boulder over rounded ledges at the left end of the wall to a large ledge and finish up the left side of an arête.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 0
Start one metre to the right. Climb large ledges to below a steeper crack, which is climbed moving right.
Grade: 5a,5a | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 1
A right-to-left, high-level girdle of The Vaults and The Pit, giving good climbing and exciting situations, especially in the dark as on the first ascent.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent:
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Follow Flat as a Fluke to a ledge at three metres, then traverse to the corner and cross the wall at the level of the pegs to the arête. Move round and traverse to the ledge and niche on Punch (thread). Committing moves around the arête and overhanging wall lead to a belay on No Strings.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent:
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Traverse left to the V-groove of Puppet, move round the arête to gain the corner and an obvious ledge (peg on left). Continue at the same height past a threaded peg, then make an ascending hand-traverse to reach Pinnochio`s nose. Finish up that route.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: -1990
Rating: 1
A low-level traverse from the start of Pinnochio rightwards across The Pit. At the right end (Mother Earth) move up and climb the first two metres of The Puppet, then continue round The Vaults, going low at the arête of Punch, then follow a lower traverse line on the front wall into Strangeways. Finish at the next arête, continue into brambles, or better still reverse Pinnochio.