12m.

Rockfax Description
Skip up the right-hand wall as for The Funnel then try to make elegant progress up the awkward crack above and right using anything that works. © Rockfax

FA. Eric Byne early 1930s.

Ticklists

Steve Ashton's 100 Classic Gritstone Climbs , Froggatt to Black Rocks (BMC) - The Grade List , Eastern Peak Grit 100 VD- VS , All trad climbs at Birchen Edge , Birchen Edge 1981 guide routes , Hardy Routes

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Will_Armstrong 26 Apr, 2021 Show βeta
βeta: Incredibly polished, hard start shared with the gully, but the chimney is good and grippy
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βeta: Incredibly polished, hard start shared with the gully, but the chimney is good and grippy
Harry_Sutcliffe 30 Jun, 2020 Show βeta
βeta: Will didn't fancy Victory Crack instead opting for a bit of a thrutch.
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βeta: Will didn't fancy Victory Crack instead opting for a bit of a thrutch.
eldre070 5 Mar, 2007 Show βeta
βeta: A pain to lead, yet some protection is required as it's Thrutch City for the last 5 metres. A peculiar route. The inital slabby start was green, but easy.
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βeta: A pain to lead, yet some protection is required as it's Thrutch City for the last 5 metres. A peculiar route. The inital slabby start was green, but easy.
Fidget 24 Apr, 2006 Show βeta
βeta: Awesome route, so much fun! Especially if you can get fully immersed in the crack, it was slightly narrower than the length of my feet, so managed to employ some fun offwidth techniques such as chicken wings and heel-toes. I should imagine that from the outside it looked something like this, but with the addition of a half-grimace, half-smile - http://home.primus.ca/~dooley/climbing/offwidths/episode6.html. One to solo, not lead!
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βeta: Awesome route, so much fun! Especially if you can get fully immersed in the crack, it was slightly narrower than the length of my feet, so managed to employ some fun offwidth techniques such as chicken wings and heel-toes. I should imagine that from the outside it looked something like this, but with the addition of a half-grimace, half-smile - http://home.primus.ca/~dooley/climbing/offwidths/episode6.html. One to solo, not lead!
Big Steve 15 Jan, 2006 Show βeta
βeta: felt harder than v diff
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βeta: felt harder than v diff
Gripped 1 Jul, 2004 Show βeta
βeta: A thrutch.
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βeta: A thrutch.

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