Avoidance 9m E1 5b
Posted by: Trevor Langhorne, 06.05.202522.04.2025, Paul C Bennett, Martin Scrowston The right hand slab direct via small pockets, (bold). Updated description October 25.
Areas
- Borrowdale
- Buttermere
- Coppermines
- Dow Crag
- Duddon Valley
- Birch Tree Slab
- Birk's Bridge Crag
- Brandy Crag West
- Browside Crag
- Cat crag
- Cheeky Wall
- Cockley Beck Area
- Crag Band
- Far How West
- Forked How Crag
- Foss How Crag
- Foss How North West
- Gaitkins
- Grassguards Buttress
- Green How
- High Close
- High Close West face.
- Horse How
- Lickle Crag
- Little Blake Rigg
- Little Stand
- Long Crag
- Pen
- Roadside Slab
- Seathwaite Buttress
- Seathwaite Tarn Area
- Signpost Crag
- Stonestar South
- Stonesty South Crag
- Sunny Pike
- Tongue House North Buttress
- Tongue House Slab
- Tongue House Wood
- Tower of flints
- Upper Buck Slab
- Upper Horse
- Upper Stonythwaite Crag
- Wallowbarrow Crag
- Eastern Crags
- Eden Valley
- Ennerdale
- Eskdale
- Gable
- Langdale
- Newlands
- Scafell & Wasdale
- Slate
- South Lakes
- St Bees
- Western Outcrops
- Winter Climbs
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Sept 2025 – climbed the slab direct, I seconded, DSM lead – possible to bridge at first and then smear the slab on pockets whilst reaching to place runners on each side – blinkered but great climbing – difficult to grade but 5a probably.
Cleaned the base of Paul’s slab route today to reveal two nice pockets. The slab can now be climbed direct at 5b* (bold).