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Ring Ouzels are reported to be nesting on Flying Buttress. Please avoid this and adjacent routes.
from 14/06/2023 to 01/07/2023
Adders are frequently seen around Curbar. They are often very well camoflaged so it's worth keeping an eye out when moving into new areas, picking up kit etc as a bite, although not life threatening to most healthy adults can still be nasty.
Ticks are abundant due to a large population of red deer. take care, particularly if passing through bracken below the crag.
Rockfax Description
One of the finest grit experiences. A tricky start gains a flake in the arete. This leads to a break, which needs packing with cams, before the tasty finishing moves. Well worth attempting as a true ground-up, on-sight since commitment on the final moves will be rewarded with either success or flight-time. © Rockfax
FA. John Allen 1976.
Ticklists
ROCKFAX Eastern Grit: Top 50 , ROCKFAX Eastern Grit (2006): Top 500 , Good E4s , Froggatt to Black Rocks (BMC) - The Grade List , The Peak: Past and Present , World Graded List , Peak Rock/12/The New Golden Age , 50 of the Best , Ultimate E4 ticklist , James' Winter Grit ticklist , The best the UK has to offer for beasts (apart from the lakes cos its always wet) , Rockfax Eastern Grit (2015) Top 50 , The Froggatt to Black Rocks 3 Star Pilgrimage , Definitive *** Peak Grit , Rockfax Peak Gritstone East (2001) Top 50 , Extreme 2018 , Classic Lobs , Definitive Eastern Grit top 50- 2001, 2006 and 2015 editions , John Allen (gritstone) megamix , Wired Peak District Grit Graded List , Wired Peak District Grit (2020) *** List , crimperE6 , Sheff , Big trad grit list , Curbar Your Enthusiasm , 2022 Rockfax Eastern Grit Graded List , 2025 Benchmark , Winter 23/24
Feedback
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| Daniel Grout | 30 Mar, 2021 |
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βeta: Rory had a bash and came off after a foot slip on the crux to take the classic whipper. Pulled the ropes and sent on preplaced, minus his cam that ripped | βeta? | |
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βeta: Rory had a bash and came off after a foot slip on the crux to take the classic whipper. Pulled the ropes and sent on preplaced, minus his cam that ripped |
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| Fiend | 13 Mar, 2007 |
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βeta: Does what it says on the tin. Excellent line, excellent climbing, very committing. Lower crux is pretty easy....top crux is not that hard but feels highly unnerving at first. Took me a very, very long time to get used to the situation. Don't know about the wrong hand business, the hand I got in was the only one I could and it worked fine! | ||
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βeta: Does what it says on the tin. Excellent line, excellent climbing, very committing. Lower crux is pretty easy....top crux is not that hard but feels highly unnerving at first. Took me a very, very long time to get used to the situation. Don't know about the wrong hand business, the hand I got in was the only one I could and it worked fine! |
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| Ropeboy | 18 Nov, 2006 |
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βeta: The low crux is definately the harder of the two cruxes. The top crux is not too hard just feels very commiting but the gear is good and by your feet. | βeta? | |
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βeta: The low crux is definately the harder of the two cruxes. The top crux is not too hard just feels very commiting but the gear is good and by your feet. |
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| UKB Shark | 28 Sep, 2005 |
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βeta: If you get the sequence wrong its not too bad to swap hands in the pocket as long as you don't panic. | βeta? | |
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βeta: If you get the sequence wrong its not too bad to swap hands in the pocket as long as you don't panic. |
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| Nige M | 27 Oct, 2003 |
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βeta: Easy to get in a twist if you get the hand sequence wrong on the runout - see photo in 1985 Derwent Grit guide for example. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Easy to get in a twist if you get the hand sequence wrong on the runout - see photo in 1985 Derwent Grit guide for example. |
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Ceramic
Grade: E4 5c ***
(Chee Dale Lower)