Gate Crag

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The Sassanach Direct

** E6

 

The original line has been straightened out. A good route and well worth doing.
(6b). Ascend the obvious ramp, reach an undercut in an overlap (two Friend 00's) and move right to a jug on the lip. Climb a groove on layaways to a small undercut (6b) and reach the flake (as on the original way. Gear is poor in the flake but there is a bombproof Rock 2 above in a horizontal break). Reach/slap left to pinch, and finish more easily up a rib on jugs.

The original route was by I Turnbull, 1989.

First ascent: (17/09/2003) Andy Mitchell, Steve Hubbard. Cleaned, top roped and then led