Quiet gems on Birchens Edge Derbyshire
The quiet end of Birchens Edge: Kismet Buttress
Its always surprising to find hidden gems, especially on edges as popular as Birchens.
This was the crag where I first started climbing about 30 years ago, and I must have walked underneath this buttress more than a hundred times without checking it out.
Kismet buttress is the first part of the crag which you walk under on the way up from parking at the Robin Hood Inn. There is a lot of quality easy trad climbing in this area of the crag, but the main action is on the pictured buttress.
L-R
- Implosion V2 (HVS 5c) Sent
- Explosion V1 (HS 5b) Sent (central groove – quite a hard start at the grade)
- Blast Hole Wall VO (5b) Sent (through the rh overhang. better with a sit start)
Well worth a visit in passing.