Little Block

Little Block
Rock Type	Natural Carboniferous Limestone
Climbing Style	Trad
Approach Time	20 minutes
Area	Gower
Sub Area	Rhossili
Local Area	Fall Bay to Mewslade
Geodata
WGS-84 Location	51.562028, -4.286222
OS Grid Ref.	SS 416 872
WGS-84 Parking Location
GR Parking Location
Base Elevation	0 metres (Other)
General Info
Faces Direction	South East
Aspect	Sunny
Wind Sheltered	Never
Climbing Type	Normal
Seepage	Never
Tidal
Before/After Low Tide	2.0 hours (See Note)
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

TIDAL STATUS

2 hours either side of low water.

BOLTING POLICY

No bolting.

PREAMBLE

This is the small buttress between Hairy Dog Wall and Yellow Wall. Some nice routes.

ACCESS

Easiest access is at a lowish state of the tide via a descent of the eastern side of King Wall and then walking/scrambling eastwards to Hairy Dog Wall via Devil’s Truck.

DESCENTS

Descent from Little Block is by scrambling down the groove to the right.

THE ROUTES

1. West Edge 12m HS,4a
   Climb the left arête of the south (seaward) face.
   
   
2. Centre Crack 12m D
   The left side of the seaward face.
   
   
3. South Wall 12m D
   The centre of the seaward face, above a spike.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Red Corner 10m D
   The red diedre to the right.
   
   
5. Centre Corner 10m D *
   The prominent groove in the centre of the east face.
   
   
6. Wall Climb 10m HD
   The groove right again.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Overhang Crack 10m D
   A groove to the right of the arête.
   
   

First Ascents

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