Route Number: 437

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Location: Poisoned Glen (Bearnas Buttress)
Grade: HVS  -
Length: 87m
First ascent: P McDermott E Goulding (Alt leads) (5/68)
Route Description:

HVS+AO
The clean overhanging corner with the reddish right wall immediately obvious from below. Start: as for Saoisre by scrambling up a gully to a large ledge, below and to the left of the Corner.

  1. 30m Takes the slab immediately right of the chimney on Pitch 1 of Saoisre. Climb the slabs, trending slightly right and gain heather ledge directly above. Continue to the foot of the corner.
  2. 30m Climb corner for 9m using cracked right wall to top of a large flake. Climb corner crack, getting steadily harder, using aid (3-4 points). Above the aid, continue up crack using chockstone and holds on walls to ledge and belay.
  3. 27m The right wall has an obvious traverse line. Gain this (2 aid points used) to reach flake block in right-hand grassy crack. Stand on this and traverse back left (2 aid points used) to gain main groove again. Continue up this groove to top belay. May be more sensible to climb directly up corner crack.
  4. Traverse left and climb gully to the top, emerging at the same point as Slanting Grooves and Route Major.

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