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Nose Direct
5.9,
Trad, 250 ft (76 m), 4 pitches, Grade II,
Avg: 3 from 5
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FA: C.Kirkus, J.Dodd 1930
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Description
Another classic, and although it's technically graded harder than Diagonal, it's much less intimdating.
1) 50ft 5.6. Bottom of the buttress. Up easy ground to the pedestal, then up and left to a ledge.
2) 90ft 5.7. Diagonally right, then up a leftwards ramp, then a groove to a belay in an alcove.
3) 50ft 5.8.
. A steep diagonal crack on the right, then up to the ledge.
4) 55ft 5.9. A hard start (crux) up the smooth corner, then up the flake and corner above.
Location
The line of the shallow groove to the left of Diagonal.
Protection
Nuts and cams.