This lead to rift section with the occasional thrutch for extra interest and sometimes a choice of routes, under or over!

As luck would have it, this became another nasty thrutch in a tight meandering canyon.

Iain Sedgeman's letter to Thrutch in February 1976 was just as clear.

Contributions to Thrutch are welcome.

In addition to climbing, Ewbank also established Australia's first rockclimbing magazine, Thrutch.

He was too busy sneezing and coughing as if he was trying to dislodge a thrutch that had somehow become lodged in one of his lungs.

Ghosts & Murders: The Bay Horse Pub at Worsthorne is home to a ghost named 'Old Thrutch'.

This was dismantled in 1972 and the route is now hard to trace, although the tunnels can be seen in Thrutch Gorge or 'The Glen', a picturesque cutting to the east of the village.

The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve, while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway!

The Spodden valley, and Spotland, was described in 1854 as "a district where the leaven of the old Saxon tongue, customs and character is less adulterated than in most other parts of Lancashire, as the naming of the Thrutch, below, indicates."