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Ramshaw is home to some of the hardest routes in Britain and most of them are graded HVS - a Yosemite style tape job is the only access requirement! There are no access problems at the main crag. However, do not try and climb at Lady Rock (the buttresses on the far right above the farm house), these are not on access land, the owner lives very close and has been confrontational.
Rockfax Description
10m. Monsterous! The two-tiered pebble-lined crack is a thrash. A traditional HVS that regularly minces E3 leaders! © Rockfax
Ticklists
The Roaches - Routes Graded List , Gritstone's finest gruesome and damaging struggles , 50 cracks to Squamish , Staffordshire Grit Challenge - Brown-Whillans Day Out , Proper Cracks UK , An attempt at a definitive list of Joe Brown's FA/FFA in the Peak District , Post-lockdown Peak jamming hoedown , BMC staffordshire "crackers dozen" crack school , Ramshaw crack day out , Wired Peak District Grit Graded List , Ultimate List of Peak District Crack Climbs , Peak District Gritstone: Graham Hoey's Best Routes for Moving on to E2 , Tom's crack funtimes , Hardest E1s on grit
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| mark s | 6 Aug, 2020 |
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βeta: 1st time ive done it for a while. Ive never had to give so much for a route. Felt the living end. | βeta? | |
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βeta: 1st time ive done it for a while. Ive never had to give so much for a route. Felt the living end. |
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| TylerColeman | 21 Sep, 2019 |
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βeta: Finally sent the first crack. Decked onto the ledge from final move of second crack due to cam ripping. Sore arse, but sent it second try. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Finally sent the first crack. Decked onto the ledge from final move of second crack due to cam ripping. Sore arse, but sent it second try. |
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| Tom Randall - Lattice Training | 9 Sep, 2007 |
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βeta: This would be a sandbag even at E1. There are loads of E2s on grit that are easier than this. I think I nearly had to try as hard on this as Ramshaw crack... | ||
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βeta: This would be a sandbag even at E1. There are loads of E2s on grit that are easier than this. I think I nearly had to try as hard on this as Ramshaw crack... |
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| Si dH | 26 Nov, 2006 |
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βeta: Then I am not a HVS leader! Utterly desperate, I'm not bad at jamming, eg. the crank was certainly easy, but this, wow. Couldnt get more than 2 feet off the ground, the jams at the obttom are pretty poor, very thin, and the pebbles are agony itself. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Then I am not a HVS leader! Utterly desperate, I'm not bad at jamming, eg. the crank was certainly easy, but this, wow. Couldnt get more than 2 feet off the ground, the jams at the obttom are pretty poor, very thin, and the pebbles are agony itself. |
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| goi.ashmore | 21 Sep, 2006 |
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βeta: This grade is total nonsense. Nasty as....but nice to have done! | βeta? | |
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βeta: This grade is total nonsense. Nasty as....but nice to have done! |
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| Frank the Husky | 20 Sep, 2004 |
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βeta: Monstrous! | βeta? | |
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βeta: Monstrous! |
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| mark s | 8 Dec, 2003 |
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βeta: you are not a hvs leader till you have done this | βeta? | |
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βeta: you are not a hvs leader till you have done this |
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Hawkwing
Grade: E1 5b ***
(Roaches Lower Tier)