Am Fasgadh

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"Amfascar" is a sport climbing venue in the Gruinard area of north west Scotland. It's aspect and angle ensures it's always dry except for minimal seepage and is a great sun trap, making climbing here an option year round.

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Directions & Approach

Grid Ref 966 910

Park in drive way/dirt track near some cottages and the gruinard river. Follow the track along the river for 5mins, take a path branching left before a cottage. From here the top of the crag is visible beneath a slanting band of quartz which stretches across the hillside. Follow the path over a fallen fence, through a bog, up a hill and between some boulders to the base of the crag.

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Routes

1. 7A

2. The brown streak 7B+

3. Brown Streak variation (climb warm up route to 2nd bolt, move left and finish up brown streak)7B

4. 'Warm up' route 7A+ - Move steeply through bulge on good holds then up wall on small positive crimps.

5. Project - The pillar

6. Lawrence's Route 7c/+ - Just left of the wall. Make a long move from side pull crack for a crimp by the 1st bolt crux (easier for the tall). Make further sustained moves moving right to a shield which leads back left.

7. Project - Starting off left side of wall.

8. Bog Talla 7C - Starting off right side of wall. A tough technical middle section leads to a good rest position below the finale.

9. 7c - 3 bolts and crack above. Still to be fully retro bolted.

10. ?? - A solitary bolt marks out another route.

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