24m.

Rockfax Description
24m. A major classic up the tallest buttress here and one of the very best routes on Western Grit. Climb a tricky crack, a bulge then steeper cracks to a long move on a pocket to reach a huge flake (long tape runner). Reach the slab and ledges then step left and finish up the fine jamming crack to an awkward bulging exit. © Rockfax

FA. Don Whillans late 1950s.

Ticklists

ROCKFAX Western Grit: Top 50 , The Roaches - Routes Graded List , Steve Ashton's 100 Classic Gritstone Climbs , Classic Rock Climbs In Northern England by Bill Birket , ROCKFAX Western Grit Grade List , World Graded List , Staffordshire Grit Challenge - Brown-Whillans Day Out , Peak Rock/7/8/Biven-Peck Partnership/1950's a Developing Decade , Ultimate HVS ticklist , The best the UK has to offer for mere mortals (apart from the lakes cos its always wet) , The Roaches 3 Star Extravaganza , Definitive *** Peak Grit , The List , Hen Cloud , Wired Peak District Grit Graded List , Wired Peak District Grit (2020) *** List , Ultimate List of Peak District Crack Climbs , Hardest HVSs in the Peak , 100 Best Routes on Grit , ROCKFAX TOP 50s upto e3 , *** HVS on Peak Gritstone , The Eal List

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Si dH 4 Sep, 2005 Show βeta
βeta: I only seconded it but wish I'd led it. Nails for the grade, brilliant at the grade. I agree, better than anything Ive done at Stanage inc RUnconq, Queersville, all the 3* routes etc etc
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βeta: I only seconded it but wish I'd led it. Nails for the grade, brilliant at the grade. I agree, better than anything Ive done at Stanage inc RUnconq, Queersville, all the 3* routes etc etc
GrahamD 6 Sep, 2004 Show βeta
βeta: Brilliant.
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βeta: Brilliant.
Nick Smith - Climbers 14 Jul, 2003 Show βeta
βeta: Quite simply the best HVS route I've ever climbed - as good as any 3-star HVS at the Roaches or Stanage! Sustained interest throughout.
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βeta: Quite simply the best HVS route I've ever climbed - as good as any 3-star HVS at the Roaches or Stanage! Sustained interest throughout.

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Saul's Crack

Grade: HVS 5a ***
(Roaches Upper Tier)

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