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A secluded wall with a couple of hard face routes, as well as a variety of easier stuff, including some arduous crack climbs and delicate slabs. The surrounding buttresses are typical out-of-the-way Stanage - worthwhile climbs that would be popular on any other cliff; here the area is rarely busy. Guidebook page 143.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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Hercules Crack 14m. Climb the flake and continue up the wider crack above. It is about as strenuous as you might expect from its name. 1 user comment | 1 Stars Pumpy | S 4a |
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Shelf Life 14m. Start just right of Hercules Crack and climb a tricky wall, on tiny holds, to a bulge split by a crack. Head right on... 4 user comments | 1 Stars Reachy | E3 5c |
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Squally Showers 14m. A slanting green groove leads to the pleasant upper arete. 1 user comment | VS 4c | |
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The Edale Trip (Beyond Hope) 14m. The lower wall leads to bulges then a ledge. The upper slab is the meat of the route, and is both bold and precarious. | 1 Stars Technical | E3 6a |
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Mercury Crack 8m. From the cave, struggle into the hanging crack. | VD | |
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My Herald of Free Enterprise 10m. A technical and harrowing lead up the left arete of the wall. Gain it from the right and press on with trepidation! A... 1 user comment | 2 Stars | E6 6c |
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The Hathersage Trip 10m. Climb the sustained centre of the wall to the left of the crack. Protection is adequate though a bit of a fiddle. 4 user comments | 2 Stars Technical | E4 6a |
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Overhanging Crack 10m. The wide crack splitting the wall is approached from the left up a thinner fissure. Awkward and strenuous. 2 user comments | 1 Stars Pumpy Graunchy | VS 5a |
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Corner-crack 10m. The leaning groove is thrutchy and feels bold. 2 user comments | Graunchy | HVS 5a |
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National Breakdown 8m. The desperate bulging wall right of the corner. | Technical | E4 6c |
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Big Bob's Bazzer 8m. Use the thin flake to access the buging arete. | E1 5b | |
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Mr Twitch 6m. The centre of the block is short and intense. | Technical | E6 6b |
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Fulcrum 10m. The disjointed cracks in the north-facing wall. | HVS 5a | |
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Seesaw 14m. Climb the left arete of the slab, starting from a block on the left. The see-sawing flake that sits in the break snapped... 2 user comments | 1 Stars | VS 4c |
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Margery Daw 10m. Climb the scooped centre of the slab and the crucial overlap from a start on the left or on the right. 2 user comments | VS 5a | |