The graded difficulty list runs from.

Steve's Route, 8b+
Start up Yorkshire 8b pull out right and continue up on some vicious one or two finger crimps before pulling over the top roof.

Simon Reed's Project 8b
This route has the potentially to be a classic as well as being a massive power pump, no one move Click here to view larger imagestands out, but it keeps coming at you, probably the longest route on the crag. Start up Rumble, break out of the big jugs moving right, for a 'sicker' crimp with your left hand, move up by pulling on a shite side pull with your right hand catching the big under cut with your left, looks powerful. Keep going at the undercuts, until you break out of the big roof of albatrossity and finish on those slopers. Hopefully Simon will send this early in summer 2001 when it dries out again, (look at the video, oh so close!

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Albatrossity Direct 8b(or top end 8a+).
3 star route, climbing at its best. Pull up on some vicious crimps on an over hanging wall, hit the Jug, rest because that's it until the top. Big double dab around the first roof, hard if you are short or weak. Get the good holds, steady yourself as you move off the sloper(left hand) & crimp (right hand) into the undercuts in the roof. Big fuckin move, to gain the jug on the lip, good body tension required to stay on. Depending on how you work this next sequence will depend on whether you make the top, direct or along the traverse to the right (supposedly easier). Cool temperature makes a difference on the slopers.

Click here to view larger imageSharples Project 8a+/8b.
Man! How did this line get missed for so long, another classic to be, man I wish it was my line?
Hopefully the Sharple's legend will see a result early in 2001, boy I bet it's going to be on his mind this winter.

The McClure Direct Finish to Yorkshire 8b (8b).
Well after the hold came off Masterton's original line, it went a number of years without another ascent, and not for want of trying. But yet again, it took the tenacity and vision of Sharple's, to see the potential. After working a different finishing sequence, he finally sent the route this summer. Only to see strong crimp man McClure flash the direct finish Sharple's couldn't work, oh! we are not worthy, and an awesome sight to see.

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