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Start: 2025-05-02T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-05-05T17:00:00+00:00

Editor: Eglish Valley - The Outpost
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Crag Profile: Eglish Valley - The Outpost
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Eglish Valley - The Outpost
Directions: Obvious seamed crag high up on North side of Eglish Valley OS Grid Reference: G945888 Click here to view location in Google Maps
49 - Cabin Fever S 4a Length: 12m Alan tees, Pete Smith 20/09/98 At the right hand side of the crag, is an easier angled slab split by a couple of grooves. Follow the grooves and make a delicate transfer to the holds above View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
50 - Klondike S 3c Length: 20m A.Tees, P. Smith 20/09/98 20m left of Cabin Fever, locate deep layback type crack system, which is climbed, past ledge, to the top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
50a - The Hangin Judge VS 4c Length: 16m Martin & Coleen McGuigan 21/07/02 2m right of Klondike,climb cracked ramp to overhang,which is taken on the right. Step back left into corner & up (crux). Flakes on the right lead to top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
51 - Diedre of the Sorrows VS 4c Length: 30m Alan Tees, Pete Smith 27/04/99 A superb diedre system, srarting from where the crag turns up the grassy ramp towadds the Cabin Fever slab. Probably low in the grade but sustained, with the crux high up. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
52 - Happy Arete VS 4c Length: 35m Al Millar, Donna Ryan 5/07/2000 Takes the arete just left of "Diedre". Start up a vague groove to ledge just left of beginning of"Diedre." Make committing moves up unlikely looking arete until the obvious short crack feature above leads to a ledge. Follow corner/ arete to the top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
53 - Dingleberry Dan VS 4b Length: 30m A.Tees, Pete Smith 20/09/98 A few metres left of the "Diedre" start at an "M" shaped rock, layback, and step right to a ledge which is traversed right. Steep climbing on good holds leads up left on easier ground to the base of a wall split by a deep groove. Climb this (crux) and continue up series of easier moves to top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
54 - Postpartum VS 4c Length: 30m Donna Ryan, Al Millar 7/07/2000 Just right of "Desperate Dan McGrew" is an obvious cleaned feature running the height of the crag.. The initial corner becomes a slender ramp, and culminates in a corner and short narrow wall/slab which is split by a crack on it's right margin. The initial corner is the crux. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
55 - Desperate Dan McGrew HS 4b Length: 30m Brian Johnston, A.Tees Obvious cleaned corner going up the left centre of the crag. Good jugs lead to crux at two thirds height, where a move out right, over a buldge and back left is necessary, before continuing to the top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
56 - Saloon Girls HS 4b Length: 30m Alan tees, Pete Smith 20/09/98 A bit dirty, but beggars cant be choosers! Towards the left hand side of the crag, locate a shallow corner, which is climbed awkwardly. Continue up crack(with a flaccid penis shaped feature on the right)and surmount pillar with difficulty. Continue up eroded recessed area to the top with a few problems. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
57 - Beautiful Barry's Wrangler Jeans VS 5a Length: 35m Al Millar, Donna Ryan 7/07/2000 This route is on The Bastion, a two tiered buttress a few hundred metres right of the Outpost. This takes the left trending crack feature in the middle of the upper tier. Start up obvious finger crack that leads to the left side of a ledge at 4m. Continue up crack until it peters out, and the feet are forced higher into it (crux)so that a long reach to a good hold on the left can be made. Continue to sloping ledge and follow the crack up to the next ledge. 10 m of broken terrain to the top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
58 - Wise Owl Soul E1 5a Length: 30m Al Millar, Donna Ryan 7/07/2000 Excellent varied route, also on "The Bastion". Start as for "Beautiful Barry", then from ledge at 4m, traverse left across slab using underclings and make a thin move around onto large sloping ledge.Cross ledge to bottom of obvious fine corner 3m left of "Beautiful Barry". Climb corner with increasing difficulty and finish up vegetated ledges. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route