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Rock On Staff Recommended Routes
Here’s a bit of a tick list of routes we’ve done and would highly recommend to friends. We’ve tried to include a good mix of grades (sorry but none of us are good enough for E8, V14 or F9a+!)
| V Diff | |
| Needle Arete | The Dewerstone, Devon |
| Colonel's Arete | The Dewerstone, Devon |
| Heaven Crack | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Little Chamonix | Shepherds Crag, Lake District |
| Grooved Arete | Tryfan East Face, Ogwen |
| NMC Crack | Gardoms Edge, Peak District |
| Pulpit Groove | Lawrencefield, Peak District |
| Zigzag | Kinder Downfall, Peak District |
| Severe | |
| The Cracks | Mother Carey's Kitchen, Pembroke |
| Centurion | St. Govan's, Pembroke |
| Murray's Route | Dow Crag, Lake District |
| Raven Gully | Haytor, Dartmoor |
| Fafnir | Fall Bay, Gower |
| Doorway | Bosigran, Cornwall |
| Hard Severe | |
| Sail Buttress | Birchen Edge, Peak District |
| Second Hand Goods | Baslow Edge, Peak District |
| Flying Crag Direct | Baslow Edge, Peak District |
| Turn To Stone | Shorn Cliff, Wye Valley |
| Brown's Crack | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| Wrinkled Wall | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| Balch Slide | Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset |
| Diedre Sud | Mowing Word, Pembroke |
| Tophet Wall | Great Gable, Lake District |
| VS | |
| F Route | Gimmer, Lake District |
| North West Arete | Gimmer, Lake District |
| Hargreaves Original | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Heather Wall | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Green Streak | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| High Neb Buttress | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Fairy Steps | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Little Flake | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Cleft Wing | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Monster Breaker | Reiff, Northern Highlands |
| Hy Brasil | Reiff, Northern Highlands |
| Canis | Haytor, Devon |
| Valkyrie | The Roaches, Staffordshire |
| Condor Slab | Skyline, The Roaches, Staffordshire |
| Black Pig | The Roaches, Staffordshire |
| Rob's Crack | Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset |
| Arch Slab | Three Cliffs Bay, Gower |
| Scavenger | Three Cliffs Bay, Gower |
| Anenome Wall | Shirecombe, Gower |
| Black And Tans | Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey |
| Eliminate A | Dow Crag, Lake District |
| Apple Arete | Gardoms Edge, Peak District |
| The Brain | Curbar Edge, Peak District |
| Birch Tree Wall | Black Rocks, Cromford |
| Sand Buttress | Black Rocks, Cromford |
| Osiris | Fall Bay, Gower |
| Sabre Cut | Dinas Cromlech, Llanberis |
| Seamstress | Serengeti, Dinorwig Slate Quarries |
| Medusa | Ravensdale, Peak District |
| The Stalk | Plum Buttress, Chee Dale, Peak District |
| One Step In The Clouds | Tremadog, North Wales |
| Mur y Niwl | Craig yr Ysfa, Ogwen |
| Mushroom Wall | Sheeps Tor, Devon |
| Amorican | Craig Caerfai, Pembroke |
| Diosese | Chair Ladder, Cornwall |
| Benny | Swanage, Dorset |
| HVS | |
| Skeleton Ridge | Needles, Isle of Wight |
| Hell Gates | Suspension Bridge Buttress, Avon Gorge |
| Scoop Face | Castle Naze, Peak District |
| Chequers Buttress | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Tody's Wall | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Sunset Slab | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Inverted V | Three Cliffs Bay, Gower |
| Zapple | Yarncliffe Quarry, Peak District |
| Sheer Hell | Penallta, Caerphilly |
| Moonraker | Berry Head, Torbay |
| Rugosity Crack | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Pedlars Slab | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Good Friday | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Lancashire Wall | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Crescent Arete | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Queersville | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Leaning Buttress Direct | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Old Salt | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Kelly's Overhang | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Vandal And Ann | Haytor, Devon |
| Rabbit's Paw Wall | Caley, Yorkshire |
| Lakeland Cragsman | Sergeant Crag's Slabs, Lake District |
| Tower Crack | Fairy Steps, Lancashire |
| The Shriek of Baghdad | Farleton Crag, Lancashire |
| Tigers Don't Cry | Shorn Cliff, Wye Valley |
| The Laughing Cavaliers | Shorn Cliff, Wye Valley |
| Scratch Arete | Tremadog, North Wales |
| Merlin Direct | Tremadog, North Wales |
| The Knight's Move | Burbage North, Peak District |
| Neb Buttress | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| Heart Of Darkness | Mowing Word, Pembroke |
| Riders On The Storm | Stennis Head, Pembroke |
| Front Line | St. Govan's, Pembroke |
| Tactitian | St. Govan's, Pembroke |
| A Dream Of White Horses | Gogarth North Stack, Anglesey |
| E1 | |
| Original Route | The Old Man of Hoy, Orkney |
| Incursion | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Living At Speed | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Millson's Minion | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Morrison's Redoubt | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Flying Buttress Direct | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Noonday Ridge | Caley, Yorkshire |
| Wrong Hand Route | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| Three Pebble Slab | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Strapiombante | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Cliff College | Baslow Edge, Peak District |
| Banana Finger | Burbage North, Peak District |
| Hugo De Vries | Turning Stone Edge, Derbyshire |
| Sirplum | Plum Buttress, Chee Dale, Peak District |
| Between The Lines | Sergeant Crag's Slabs, Lake District |
| Great Buttress Arete | Wharncliff, Wye Valley |
| Phlebitis | Shakemantle Quarry, Ruspidge, Gloucestershire |
| Superdirect | Dinas Mot, Llanberis |
| Breaking The Barrier | Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey |
| Sinecure | Carreg y Barcud, Pembroke |
| Cool For Cats | Stennis Head, Pembroke |
| Rock Idol | Mother Carey's Kitchen, Pembroke |
| Satan's Slip | Lundy |
| Bishop's Rib | Chairladder, Cornwall |
| Astral Stroll | Carn Gloose, Cornwall |
| E2 | |
| The Strand | Gogarth, Anglesey |
| Meddle | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Pot Black | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Tower Face Direct | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Suspense | Lawrencefield, Peak District |
| The Watchtower | Torquay |
| Crimtyphon | Compass Point, Culm Coast |
| Sacre Coeur | Blackchurch Rock, Culm Coast |
| Back Off | Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset |
| Run For Home | Shorn Cliff, Wye Valley |
| Touch The Fire | Shorn Cliff, Wye Valley |
| Kangaroo Wall | Wintour's Leap, Wye Valley |
| Crack Of Doom | The Roaches, Staffordshire |
| Elegy | The Roaches, Staffordshire |
| Wasp | Tremadog, North Wales |
| Deranged | St. Govan's Head, Pembroke |
| Surprise Attack | Mewsford Point, Pembroke |
| The Ride and The View | Lundy |
| Bow Wall | Bosigran |
| Illustrated Man | Carn Barra, Cornwall |
| Wombat | Malham Cove, Yorkshire |
| E3 | |
| Long John's Slab | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Wall End Slab Direct | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| The Asp | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Telli | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Blade Runner | Morlais Quarry, Merthyr Tydfil |
| San Melas | Skyline, The Roaches |
| Cruel Sister | Pavey Ark, Lake District |
| Wolfman Jack | Lundy |
| Jet Set | Lundy |
| Pleasure Dome | Stennis Head, Pembroke |
| Kitten Claws | Carreg y Barcud, Pembroke |
| The Onion Eaters | Mowing Word, Pembroke |
| Sunlover | Trevallen, Pembroke |
| Big Groove | Gogarth, Anglesey |
| Vulcan | Tremadog, North Wales |
| Lubyanka | Cryn Las, Gwynedd, North Wales |
| El Guide Direct | Hidden Wall, LLanberis Pass, North Wales |
| Kafoozalam | Bosigran, Cornwall |
| The Dream | Bosigran, Cornwall |
| Grand Plage | Carn Barra, Cornwall |
| Sunny Corner Lane | Carn Barra, Cornwall |
| Eroica | Pentire Point, Cornwall |
| The Beest | Beeston Tor |
| 4 Steps To Heaven | Fairy Cave Quarry |
| Comes The Dervish | Vivian Quarry, Dinorwig |
| E4 | |
| Glacial Point | Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset |
| High Flyer | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Calvary | Stanage Edge, Peak District |
| Oedipus Ring Your Mother | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Star Wars | Bosherston Head, Pembroke |
| Fear Of Infection | Clogwyn Mawr Cwmglas, Gwynedd |
| Great Wall | Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, Llanberis |
| Resurrection | Dinas Cromlech, Llanberis |
| Great Wall | Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, Llanberis |
| The Mau Mau | Rainbow Slab Area, Dinorwig Slate Quarries |
| Fay | Lower Sharpnose, Cornwall |
| Melpomene | Swanage, Dorset |
| Mother Africa | Swanage, Dorset |
| Wee Doris | Stoney Middleton, Peak District |
| All Quiet On The Western Front | Almscliff, Yorkshire |
| Grand Illusion | Almscliff, Yorkshire |
| Amanita Muscarina | Sea Walls, Avon Gorge |
| Arms Race | Sea Walls, Avon Gorge |
| E5 | |
| Right Wall | Dinas Cromlech, Llanberis |
| Minotaur | Huntsman's Leap, Pembroke |
| Rubik's Cube | Hollow Caves Bay, Pembroke |
| Darkinbad The Brightdayler | Pentire Point, Cornwall |
| Wall Of The Worlds | Swanage, Dorset |
| Strapadictomy | Froggatt Edge, Peak District |
| Supersonic | High Tor, Peak District |
| Trouble In Toytown | Nesscliffe |
| Track Of The Cat | Skyline, Roaches |
| E6 | |
| Jasmine | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| Trout | Bamford Edge, Peak District |
| E7 | |
| Tombola | Nesscliffe |
| Monopoly (with Dom Sellers finish) | Millstone Edge |