Eyeball Wall

Eyeball Wall
Eyeball Wall
Rock Type	Natural Carboniferous Limestone
Climbing Style	Trad
Approach Time	25 minutes
Area	Gower
Sub Area	Rhossili
Local Area	Fall Bay to Mewslade
Geodata
WGS-84 Location	51.561632, -4.285699
OS Grid Ref.	SS 416 872
WGS-84 Parking Location	51.567326, -4.278292
GR Parking Location	SS 421 878
Parking Postcode	SA3 1PH
Base Elevation	1 metres (Other)
General Info
Faces Direction	West
Aspect	Partially Sunny
Wind Sheltered	Mostly
Climbing Type	Serious
Seepage	Quick drying
Crags Within 600m
Block Buttress, Catacomb Gully, Cathedral Wall, Conglomerate Cliff, Devil's Truck, Eyeball Wall, Four Gullies, Giant's Cave, Grey Wall, Hairy Dog Wall, Jacky's Tor, King Wall, Lewes Castle, Little Block, Mewslade Short Wall, Molar Wall and White Edge, Rolly Bottom Buttress, The Aisle, The Prows, The Pulpit, Thurba Head, Thurba West, Trident Gully and Ridge, Upper Jacky's Tor, Yellow Wall, Zero Gully

Conglomerate Cliff and Eyeball Wall

PREAMBLE

The smooth crack-seamed wall opposite Yellow Wall and right of Conglomerate Cliff provides a number of shorter routes. An abseil rope is recommended to avoid the epic scramble up from the finish of the rock.

THE ROUTES

1. Contact 10.10 12m E4,6a
   Climb the black scoop and thin crack on the left side of the face. Exit right from the crack to a shallow groove.
   
   
2. Fovea 40 12m E3,6a
   Start down and right of Contact 10.10 under a scoop containing some conglomerate holds. Make tricky moves out of the scoop (in situ hex) and pull up on crozzles to a flat hold. Finish direct.
   
   
3. Eyeline 12m E3,5c
   Climb the scoop and crack between Fovea 40 and Specky Four Eyes, with a prominent TR at 8m.
   
   
4. Specky Four Eyes 12m E2,5c
   Start at the foot of a diagonal fault that runs rightward towards the headland. Climb a scoop moving right to a jug, then move up right and back left to a crack leading to a belay.
   
   
5. Eyeball to Eyeball 12m E2,5c
   Start at the right side of the face. Climb to the left side of the diagonal fault line, poor TR. Move up to stand on another fault. Go over the bulge to a vertical slot, then up to a break above and a short wall to easier ground.
   
   

FIRST ASCENTS

1. M.Crocker, M.Ward, R.Thomas 30.08.1986
   
2. R.Thomas, M.Ward, M.Crocker 31.08.1986
   
3. R.Thomas, M.Ward, M.Crocker 30.08.1986
   
4. M.Crocker, M.Ward, R.Thomas 30.08.1986
   
5. M.Ward, M.Crocker, R.Thomas 30.08.1986