The Cirque Access: Route E
Approach: Pass over or around the gate and follow a path towards the trees straight ahead. Do not go into the woods. Turn right past an old water tank and follow a faint path, with deciduous trees on the left and evergreens on the right. After a short way, the trail cuts into the woods. Follow the trail down into a gully and across a broken-down bridge over a large stream. Walk part-way up the trail on the far side and then cut left into a gully coming down from the escarpment. Cross the gully and pick up a faint trail leading up the hillside. If you stay on the high ground immediately above Castle Wall, then you can look across the gully to The Cirque, and pick out the various features, before you commit yourself to a final, brutal bushwhack up to the base.
Character: The base of the cliff runs diagonally up the escarpment from right to left, starting at about the same height as the top of The Throne. The cliff is very extensive, but also very broken. There are very few obvious attractive routes. Combined with the miserable approach, this makes the cliff quite unpopular.
Jim's Corner 5.7
A left-facing dihedral, on the lower section of the cliff, quite obvious when seen from a distance, but hard to spot from the base of the cliff. The left wall is quite smooth, with a small overhang almost at its top.
From the base of the cliff, there is about 20m of 4th class scrambling to get to the base of the dihedral. The route up the dihedral is quite obvious.
Old Climb 5.4
Located on the top left of The Cirque. An in-situ pin can be seen (just!) from the base of the cliff.
Steve's Climb 5.8
Start just right of Old Climb. Two pitches.