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WHITE GHYLL CRAG

Rock Type Rhyolite
Access Park at the car park at the New Dungeon Ghyll hotel, as for mill ghyll. Follow the path up mill ghyll, until you cross it on a wooden bridge. Take a path on the right that traverse the fell side, and goes through a larch plantation, in to the ghyll. Now simply walk up the ghyll to a sycamore in the middle of the ghyll, it acts as a marker for the starts of many climbs. The crag is the huge expansion of rock on your right.
Comments White Ghyll crag is very clean and very solid. It is split in the middle by easy rake, which acts as a good descent route. The buttresses below the rake are quite short and broken. Above the rake the crag has a band of overhangs in the middle. Past all the overhangs is the final slab at the top of the ghyll. Overall the climbs are in the middle grades. There are few spectacularly hard ones.
Best Routes Slip Knot, 41m, MVS 4b. Varied climb up a corner.

White Ghyll Wall, 68m, VS 4c. The easiest route up past the overhangs.

Haste Not, 59m, VS 4c. The traverse is exposed and requires a cool head.

Paladin, 34m, E3 5c. An overhanging corner.

The Slabs, Route 2, 36m, S. Pictured below.

Users Opinions

Best 3 Climbs

The Gordian Knot**, VS 4b 4c 4b, 5 votes
Laugh Not***, HVS 5a, 2 votes
Haste Not**, VS 4b 4c 4b, 2 votes

Worst Climb

Granny Knot, HS, 1 votes

Boldest Climb

Do Not*, E1 5b 5a, 2 votes

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Guide Book Langdale by Fell & Rock Climbing Club
Local Facilities The Sticklebarn will provide all the refreshment you need. The New Dungeon Ghyll is not as good, as it is more concerned with its hotel business.