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The Chevin is the area of woodland above Otley in West Yorkshire, west of Caley. There is a substantial grit edge here, partly quarried, with some good routes, and some well-hidden boulders in the woods - West Chevin. It's a fairly minor bouldering venue, but there are a few good problems, particularly in the lower grades, with one very impressive hard problem. Unfortunately it is quite green, being north facing and surrounded by trees.

The problems on the broken main edge are described from left to right. Descriptions courtesy of Paul Clarke.

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The left-most boulder on the edge is a vertical wall with a few small crimps.
Eat The Light 7a (V6)   1 photo 1 6 comments 6 6 votes 6
From the good crimp go diagonally leftwards on small crimps to the big jug.

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This area features two green walls split by a wide crack.
Bee Line 5 (V1)   6 comments 6 3 votes 3
The wall to the left of Twin Finish and slightly right of the thin vertical groove. Move up to the huge undercut flake and make a long reach for the top.
Twin Finish 5 (V1)   1 comment 1 1 vote 1
The left-hand crack..
Defence System 6a (V3)   0 comments 0 1 vote 1
The thin crack. A fine technical problem.
Exorcist Green 5+ (V2)   0 comments 0 0 votes 0
The left arete of the right-hand boulder.
Walking The Plank 6c (V5)   0 comments 0 1 vote 1
The centre of the wall without the arete.
Homeland 6a (V3)   1 comment 1 2 votes 2
The nice arete to a ledge and an easy finish.
Supergreen 5 (V1)   0 comments 0 0 votes 0
The green ramp just right of the arete.
How Green Was My Valley 4 (V0)   0 comments 0 0 votes 0
The crack on the right.

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This is first area reached from the road. There are some fine lower grade problems here and a very impressive project on an overhanging wall. The first problems are on the nice clean wall in front of the overhanging wall.
Ground-Up 6a (V3)   2 photos 2 1 comment 1 2 votes 2
The nice scoop and wall just right of the left arete.
Blobby 5+ (V2)   1 photo 1 0 comments 0 0 votes 0
Climb straight up the wall above the blob.
Super Central 5 (V1)   2 photos 2 0 comments 0 0 votes 0
Up the middle of the wall past a slot.
The Barn Door 5+ (V2)   2 photos 2 0 comments 0 2 votes 2
The right arete, climbed on its left side. Nice climbing.

Traverses and Links

West Face Traverse 6b (V4)   1 photo 1 6 comments 6 0 votes 0
Low level left-to-right traverse of the wall.

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The overhanging wall.
Africa Flake 5 (V1)   4 photos 4 0 comments 0 0 votes 0
Climb the flake and traverse off left. A sitting start is 5+. The traverse from the righthand corner is 5
Time 6a+ (V3)   2 photos 2 1 comment 1 3 votes 3
The nice vertical arete right of the foul corner.

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Head downhill from Brownian Motion to find this sharp arete.
Fluid Dynamics 8a+ (V12)   0 comments 0 0 votes 0
Awesome hard crimpy arete starting low on sidepull and undercut.