Stac Gorm, Inverness

Stac Gorm, Inverness


Scotland

Stac Gorm, Inverness

 

Just of the farm track road go through the Forster block or to the right, make your way across the field and the first crag you will see is Tynrich Slabs.

 

Tynrich Slabs

First Picture 

Green: Puff Ball 15m VS 5a** 

Blue: Wrinkle and Crack 20m s* 

Purple: Chocolate Truffle 20m HVS 4c 

Orange: Scoops 20m VD 

Yellow: Chanterelle 20m E3 5b* 

Red: Slippery Jack 12m E4 5c* 

 

Frank Sinatra Walls

Second Picture

Orange: Gorillas in the Mix 20m E4 6a

Red: My Max 20m E3 5c** 

Blue: Let's be Frank 20m E4 6a* 

Purple: Gecko Echo 15m HVS 5a 

Yellow: Stolen Goods 10m HVS 5a 

Green: Ole Red Eyes 10m VS 5a 

 

High Green Crag

Third Picture 

Green: Rainbow High 12m HVS 5b 

Yellow: Bright September 10m VS 4b 

Orange: Ole Blue Eyes 10m HVS 5a 

Red: Flake Route 10m S

Blue: Bethlehem 10m VS 5a* 

 

Tynrich Slabs

1 Puff ball 15m VS 5a

2 Wrinkle and Crack 20m S 

3 Chocolate Truffle 20m HVS 4c 

4 Scoops 20m VD 

5 Chanterelle 20m E3 5a* 

6 Fly Agaric 15m E2 5b 

7 Angels Wings 15m HVS 5a 

8 Scorpion 15m VS 4c** 

9 Trumpet of the Dead 15m E2 5c** 

10 Trumpet of the Dead Direct Start 15m E4 6a 

11 Blewit 12m E2 5c*** 

12 Slippery Jack 12m E4 5c* 

13 Strewth 12m HVS 5a 

14 Horn of Plenty 10m VS 4c 

15 Boletus 10m HVS 5b 

 

Frank Sinatra Walls 

Second Picture 

16 Gorillas in the Mix 20m E4 6a

17 My Way 20m E3 5c**

18 Anything Shoes 20m E6 6b**

19 Vagabond Shoes 20m E1 5b** 

20 Vagabond Direct 25m E1 5b**

21 Lets be Frank 20m E4 6a** 

22 Frank's in a Trance 25m E4 6a*

23 Gecko echo 15m HVS 5a 

24 Stolen Goods 10m HVS 5a 

25 The Fence 12m E1 5a 

26 Ole Red Eyes 10m VS 5a 

 

High Green Crag 

Third Picture 

27 Rainbow High 12m HVS 5b 

28 Bright September 10m VS 4b 

29 Ole Blue Eyes 10m HVS 5a 

30 Flake Route 10m S 

31 Beyul 10m Vs 5a*

Climbing, Crag, Traditional, Highlands.


Dun Deardail, Inverness

Dun Deardail, Inverness


Scotland

Dun Deardail, Inverness 

 

From the car park look across the road to the massive crag on the right of that lies Dun Deardail.

 

Dun Deardail 

Purple: Omega 50m E1* 

Red: Wild Roses 50m E1** 

Blue: Echo Beach E1 5c* 

Yellow: Cracked Wall 45m HVS**

Green: Fat Cat Corner 20m E1 5b* 

 

Dun Deardail

 

1 Omega 50m E1 5b*

 

2 Wild Roses 50m E1**

 

3 Echo Beach 20m E1 5c*

 

4 Cracked Wall 45m HVS 5a**

 

5 Fat Cat Corner 20m E1 5b*

 

Climbing, Crag, Traditional, Highlands.


Monster Buttress, Inverness

Monster Buttress, Inverness


Scotland 

Monster Buttress, Inverness 

 

this buttress lies just off the road it's a seemingly out the way feel on a single track road.

 

Monster Buttress

1 Nessie 70m HS 4a 

2 The Monster Mash 70m E2 5c 

3 Dances with Blondes 25m E1 5b 

4 Monster Magic 25m E2 5c**

5 Monster Magic Extension 40m E2 5c*

 

climbing, crag, buttress, traditional climb solo, rope


Pinnacle Crag, Inverness

Pinnacle Crag, Inverness


Scotland 

Pinnacle Crag


crag path is 20 meters down the road towards the gate but it's the other side of the road, blue marker post just along from it, takes you straight to crag.

 

Grades M to E6 6b

Green: Pinnacle Face 10m S*

Blue: Easy Chimney 10m D*

Purple: Stepped Corner 10m S*

Red:Big Nose 10m E3 6a

Orange: Sare 8m E6 6b

 


Pinnacle Crag

 

1 Pinnacle Chimney 10m VD 

2 A Brazilian 10m E3 5c 

3 Pinnacle Face 10m 

4 Easy Chimney 10m  

5 Confidence Wall 10m VD 

6 Right Angle 10m VD 

7 Tapered Groove 10m VD 

8 Soixante 10m E2 5c 

9 The Wall 10m E1 5b 

10 Stepped Corner 10m S* 

11 Y Crack 8m VS 4c 

12 No Crack 10m E1 5b 

13 Jam Crack 5m VS 5a 

14 Big Nose 10m E3 6a 

15 Left Bay Diagonal (na) 5c 

16 Left Bay Groove 8m S 4b 

17 The FinNone (na) 6a 

18 Broken Groove 8m 

19 Gearr 8m E3 6b 

20 Sare 8m E6 6b 

21 Overhanging Chimney 8m VS 4c 

22 Push Off 8m E1 5c 

23 Right Chink 8m VS 4c

 

Climbing, Crag, traditional, highlands, buttress


Brin Rock, Inverness

Brin Rock, Inverness


Scotland

Brin Rock, Inverness 

 

All 3 buttresses are located on the face facing the road and are set right to left, can be accessed through a small road and field. Around 15 minutes walking their is however a shorts steep accent to them.


Zed & Block Buttress
First Picture

1 Red: The Wild Man 20m E2 5b***

2 Blue: Making Moves 30m HVS 5a*

3 Purple: Giant Flake 20m HVS 5a

4 Orange: Screen Test 35m HVS

5 Green: The Block 20m VS 4c*


The Needle

Second Photo

6 Blue: Weird Wall 25m E3 5c*

7 Purple: Gold Digger 25m E3 6a***

8 Red: The Prow 30m E1 5b**

9 Yellow: Turkish Cracks 40m HVS 5a

10 Green: Skytrain 20m E2 5c**


Crag One

Third Picture

11 Green: Catweazle 20m E1 5b*

12 Yellow: Pink Rib 35m S 4a

13 Blue: The Gangplank 40m HVS 5a**

14 Red: Austrocelt Sound System 40m E6***

15 Purple: Treasure Island 40m E2 5b**

Crag, climbing, traditional, buttress, highlands


Duntelchaig Crags, Inverness

Duntelchaig Crags, Inverness


Scotland

Duntelchaig, Inverness



From parking go up the road left and through the gate towards the loch, walk along that road for around 500 meters, crags are all facing the loch.

 

Dracula Buttress

First Photo

Green: Transvision Clamp 15m E6 6b*

Red: Wolfman 30m E5 6b

Purple: Dracula 30m E3***

Blue: Garlic 20m E3 6a 

Orange: Frankenstein 10m E2 5c* 

Yellow: Balrog 10m HVS 5b* 

 

Main Crag

Second Picture

Yellow: Dragonfly 30m VS 5a 

Orange: Misty Crack 30m E1 5b** 

Red: Inaccessible Crack 30m VS* 

Blue: Monolith Slab 10m E2 5b 

Green: Monolith Crack 30m VS 4b* 

 

Upper Main Crag

Third Picture 

Red: Drum 55m VD*

Yellow: Drumhead 25m VS 4b** 

Orange: Top Corner 20m HS 4b* 

Green: Mica Slab 30m D 

Blue: Mica Crack 35m HS* 

 

Seventy Foot Wall

Forth Picture 

Blue: Sweeney's Crack 15m HVS 5c* 

Purple: False Friends 15m E3 6a 

Red: Sling 15m E1 5b** 

Orange: Razor Flake 15m HVS 5a** 

Yellow: Seventy Foot Wall 15m HVS 5b* 

Green: Swastika 15m S 4b* 

 

Dracula Buttress

1 Transvision Clamp 15m E6 6b* 

2 Cyclops 30m E4 6b* 

4 Wolfman 30m E5 6b 

4 Dracula 30m E3 5c** 

Neck Nippers fae Tammytool 30m E4 6a

6 Vampire 30m E3 6a 

7 Garlic 20m E3 6a 

8 Nosferatu 20m E8 6c 

9 What we do in the Shadows 20m E10 7a 

10 Monsters Edge 15m E4 6b 

11 Frankenstein 10m E2 5c* 

12 Mummy 15m E1 5b 

13 Balrog 10m HVS 5b* 

14 B F G 10m HVS 5a 

15 Puff 9m S 

16 Scrag End 9m VD

 

 

Main Crag

17 Excavator 15m S 4b 

18 Mojo Slab 15m E3 5c 

19 Bongo 7m HVS 4b 

20 Too Strong for Scotland 8m E4 6a 

21 Long Slab 25m HS 4b 

22 Dragonfly 30m VS 5a 

23 The Latch Key Kid 26m E2 5c

24 Misty Crack 30m E1 5b* 

25 The Broch Inspector 10m E3 5c *

26 Babylon 40m S* 

27 Inaccessible Crack 30m VS* 

28 ALT Inaccessible Crack Direct Start HVS 5b* 

29 Monolith Slab 10m E1 5b 

30 Monolith Crack 30m VS 4b* 

31 Monolith Recess 30m E2** 

32 Dark Vision 30m E2 6a* 

33 Drum 55m VD 

 

Upper Main Crag

34 The Percussion 60m E4 

35 Little Drummer Boy 45m HVS 5a* 

36 Great Eastern Traverse 65m 

37 Upper Traverse 60m M

38 Drumhead 25m VS 4b** 

39 Mica Arete 20m S 4b 

40 Mica Chimney20m VD 

41 Mica Chimney Right-Hand 20m S 4a

42 Timpani Rib 20m E3 5b 

43 Top Corner 20m HS 4b 

44 ALT Banker's Doom VS 4b 

45 Mica Slab 30m 

46 Mica Direct 35m S

47 Mica Crack 35m HS*

48 Dennis the Menace 30m E2 5c 

49 Edir 20m VS 4c 

50 Ride on the Side 20m VS 4b 

 

Seventy Foot Wall

51 Kill That Crazy Frog 16m E4 6a

52 Slings 15m E1 5b* 

53 Save The Tree 15m E3 6a

54 Razor Flake 15m HVS 5a* 

55 Seventy Foot Wall 15m HVS 5b 

56 Insomnia 15m E3 5c* 

57 Anne Boleyns Crack 8m E1 5c 

58 Swastika 15m S 4b 

59 Ping Pong 15m E1 5c 

60 Eave 5m E1 5b* 

61 Eeny 5m VS 5b 

62 Meeny 5m HS 4c 

63 Miney 5m HS 4c

64 Outside Lane 5m HVS 5a 

65 Mo 5m S 4b 

66 Girdle Traverse 25m E1 5b 

67 Triple Overhang 20m HVS 5a* 

68 Mica Chasm 12m D* 

69 Outside Route 5m VS 

70 Chasm Crack 5m VD 

71 Chasm Roof 10m E3 6a

 

Climbing, Crag, Traditional, Highlands.


Ashie Fort crag, Inverness

Ashie Fort crag, Inverness


Scotland

Ashie Fort crag, Inverness

 

from parking go through gate at corner and follow track down where a prominent mound is ahead of you, go to right of mound to the crag.

 

35 routes ranging from VD to E4

Blue: The Block Route 10m S

Red: Monday's Child 10m VD

Orange: Peat Tong 10m S

Green: Dun Riach 10m VS 4c

Yellow: Dun Dearg 10m VS 4c*

 

 

Ashie Fort Crag
Routes from left to right on wall


1 Harmony Slab 10m VD

2 The Block Route 10m S

3 Monday's Child 10m VD

4 Peat Tong 10m S

5 Dun Riach 10m VS 4c

6 Dun Dearg 10m VS 4c

7 The Hanging Crack 9m S

8 Flutterbye to China 8m E3 6a

9 Firecracker 10m E3 6a

10 Brain Damage 10m E3 6a

11 Points of Departure 10m E2 5c

12 Throw Lichen to the Wind 10m E2 5c

13 Raeburn's Original Route 10m VS

14 Roost Wall 10m HVS 5a

15 X File 10m HVS 5a

16 Web Astair 10m HVS 5a

17 Sick Whipper 10mE3 5b

18 Whipper Snapper 10m E3 5c

19 Bodysnatchers 10m E3 5c

20 Harpic's Crack 10m E2 5c

21 Welcome Pebble 10m E2 5b

22 Wooly Jumper 10m E2 5c

23 When The Cat's Away 12m E3 5c

24 Deprivation 10m E4 5c

25 The Big Crack 10m S

26 32 Feet per second 10m HS 

27 Moss Shoe Shuffle 10m HVS 5a

28 After Quark 10m HVS 5a

29 Quark Strangers and Charm 10m HVS 5a

30 Ruby Tuesday 10m E2 5b

31 Clavicle Attack 10m HVS 5a

32 The Corner 8m HS

33 The Wall 10m S 4a

34 Fat Bird 10m VS 4c

35 One Move Wonder 5m S

 

Climbing, Crag


Conagleann, Inverness

Conagleann, Inverness


Scotland 

Conagleann, Inverness 

 

from the parking you have a little walk around 3km through a farm up a small hill through then gay into the valley and near the start of the loch. Second links a car park at the gate for estate use.


Hailstorm Buttress

Red: Hushpuppy 70m VD 

Blue: Umbrella 70m E2 

Orange: Dropout 60m S 

Yellow: Tipussip 55m S 

Green: Black Slab 50m VD** 

 

Scarlet Wall

Green: Crack and Corner 50m S 

Yellow: 7- Up 60m S 

Orange: Little and Large 60m VS 

Red: Finger Arete 90m S 

Purple: Streaker 35m VD

Hailstorm Buttress

1 Fanone 25m HS*

2 Hushpuppy 70m VD 

3 Umbrella 70m E2 5c 

4 Foe 60m VS 

5 Gonzo 80m HVS 5a 

6 Dropout 60m S

 

Raven's Roost

7 Tipussip 55m 

8 Tip Slab 55m VS 4c 

9 Molar 90m VS 4c 

10 The Raven 30m VS 4c 

11 Croak 25m E1 5b 

12 Toad's Arete 40m VS 4b 

13 The Falcon 25m E2 5b 

14 Grande 45m VS 4b

Eastern Slabs

15 Black Slab 50m VD 

16 Ash Slab 50m HS 4b*

17 Hoody Climb 50m VD

18 The Streak 40m VS 4b  

19 Grey Arete 50m VS 4b 

Scarlet Wall

20 Crack and Corner 50m 

21 Advisor 25m VS 

22 7-Up 60m 

23 Little and Large 60m VS 4a 

24 Plumb 55m VS 4b 

25 Finger Arete 90m 

26 Streaker 35m VD 

 

Climbing, Crag, Traditional, Highlands.