LANCASHIRE ROCK

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

The Crag

  • 1 - Cryptic Cripple Club

    Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -1986
    Rating: 0

    Start at the right-side of the main cliff. Climb a wall (bolt) and move left into a short groove (tape). Ascend this to a bolt and peg belay. Abseil descent.

  • 2 - Dry Grin

    Grade: 6b | First Ascent: -1986
    Rating: 1

    Start four metres left of Cryptic Cripple Club; climb directly up the wall passing two bolts to the belay of Cryptic Cripple Club. Abseil descent.

  • 3 - Wodwo

    Grade: 6b | First Ascent: -1986
    Rating: 0

    Start six metres left of Dry Grin and climb a blind flake to its end. Move left to the central groove and climb it (peg). Continue in the same line and make a hard move over the bulge (bolt) to jugs. Continue to a large tree.

  • 4 - Cain

    Grade: 6b | First Ascent: -1986
    Rating: 0

    Start 15 metres left of Wodwo, beneath a pocket with a tiny pine, go to the right of a small holly. Climb up to the second of two bolts, move right for two metres and climb a clean wall to a bolt belay. Abseil descent.

  • 5 - Cain Direct

    Grade: 6b | First Ascent: -1986
    Rating: 0

    From the second bolt of Cain, climb directly over a bulge (bolt) to a peg belay. Abseil descent.