Route Number: 1836

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An Bhuideal (North Tower) * * *

Location: Sea Stacks and Pinnacles
Grade: VS  4c
Length: 50m
First ascent: Iain Miller, Steven "Jock" Read, Martin Boner 13/06/09
Route Description:

Grid Reference 549903. This route climbs skinny, exposed and spectacular North Tower of this excellent stack. Access as for the main stack and abseil descent of the route.

Pitch 1: 15m From the groove between the two stacks gain and climb the landward arete to a ledge.

Pitch 2: 25m 4a Make a rising traverse of the landward face to an exposed platform on the North Face.

Pitch 3: 10m 4c Climb to summit.


Photo of Route
An Bhuideal - The landward face.
Comments

Plinney - 31/07/2011
Bring spare underwear for the last absail. My mate sat on the pile of rocks at the top causing one to slide quite a bit and nearly sever one of the bits of blue tat. Realising our anchor was a pile of rocks made it a tad more exciting.

Dave Millar - 16/06/2009
Lads, the stack looks amazing, gud effort, the sea passage out looked fairly daunting last time was there. Nice one!

jock - 15/06/2009
A tremendous climb with some fantastic jugs that tend to get slightly more involved towards the top. The exposure on the last couple of moves (moving across onto the left had face from the final belay stance) is a truly excellent if not slightly humbling experience. In general the rock quality is surprisingly good but untrustworthy ; )

Alan Tees - 15/06/2009
I know this one, looks like a wine bottle, its quite a bit out, you didnt swim it???

- 14/06/2009
The sea passage to the base of this stack is very serious. An E1 swim?

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