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Anyone climbed 15-Oct-2014 At 8:53:00 AM kieranl

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I've updated the description for Last Rites on The Crag. It's getting a bit wordy though.
Here's the revised description. If you have any suggestions to improve/clarify it let me know.

Fantastic climbing from start to finish. Double ropes really help, especially if you want to run some pitches together.

Start: Left facing flake-crack 10 metres right of RIP Corner.

33m (18) Up flake to sloping ledge at 12 metres (manky old PR). There are two ways to go here. The obvious way is to climb directly to the overhang and then step right past it. Good climbing but there is no gear above the sloping ledge until the roof is reached and it may make this pitch 19. The original way is to step right around the arete from the foot of or just below the sloping ledge then up the wall to the lip of the overhang (there used to a peg somewhere about here). Now that the two ways have joined, pull over the bulge (be careful with the flake) onto the wall above the overhang and go up to small stance on right (a large wire flicked up into the corner of the next pitch helps with the belay). An even smaller stance is available a few metres below.

24m (18) Beautiful thin corner to small ledge on right. (Pitches 2 and 3 are often combined.)

26m (19) Follow obvious traverse line out left for 4 or 5 metres into daunting corner (there are actually 3 corners above this traverse - this is the middle one). Up corner and past a peg runner. Exit left above overlap and up juggy wall to long ledge below overhang.

41m (17) Take the steep left-facing corner left of the overhang until it eases and up crack to top.