Great Links Tor, Dartmoor

Submitted by: Barry Clarke
Crag: Great Links Tor (p 236)
Date of ascent: 25/07/2017
Climbers: BJ Clarke (solo)

Col Ridge

Length/grade/stars: 8m D

Start location:

Start 6 metres right of …Special To Me

Pitch descriptions:

From the col scramble up the stepped ridge, via an interesting move at half-height.

Blueberry Hill

Length/grade/stars: 7m S

Start location:

Eighty metres south-west of the trig point (towards Widgery Cross), a small outcrop sports a pleasant rippled wall on its west side, with a small cutaway towards its right side; start here.

Pitch descriptions:

4a Step right out of the cutaway and move up to a sloping ledge. Finish on good holds just left of the edge. From the left side of the cutaway, the wall and slab leads pleasantly leftwards; Raspberry Ripple (8m S 4a Clarke 25.7.17).

Additional info:

40 mins approach time is a bit optimistic; with a light soloing sac and no rests it took me one and a quarter hours! The Tor is very mossy with only The Great Flake, Lynx and (unfortunately) the easier cracks climbable without a good brushing!