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Townsend's Variation

HVS 4c

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14m. Take the lowest possible line up the edge of the face on sloping footholds and then move around onto the exposed face where mild but bold moves up the rib reach superb finishing jugs. As easy as it ever was but completely lacking in protection. © ROCKFAX
FA. Ron Townsend 1949

Ticklists: Stanage Routes Graded List, Peak Gritstone S-HVS **+.

Photo: The end of the day at Stanage © Matt Johnson
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS

This climb is in 158 logbooks, and on 7 wishlists.

Steady, just a bit of a headgame. Cracking position!
Dafydd Llywelyn - Solo O/S - 02/May/13 with Alec Smith

Stanage HVS
migs493 - Lead O/S - 07/Apr/13 with LO

pie_eater_pete - Solo O/S - 03/Mar/13 with bwestwood

Hidden - Solo - 03/Mar/13

sazmaz - Lead O/S - 11/Nov/12 with Isi Booker

Hidden - Lead O/S - 11/Nov/12

Practically a solo. A little green and a bit crap.
jakelodge - Lead O/S - 06/Oct/12 with Harry Thorpe

Harry Thorpe - 2nd O/S - 06/Oct/12 with Jake Lodge

Mike W - Solo O/S - 04/Oct/12

Jordan - Solo O/S - 17/Sep/12

bit sketchy in the strong wind, but still did it twice for photos
Graeme Hammond - Solo rpt - 11/Sep/12

harold walmsley - Solo rpt - 30/Aug/12

deacondeacon - Lead O/S - 10/Aug/12

Gudge - 2nd O/S - Aug/12 with Deacon

Olli-C - Solo O/S - 30/Jun/12 with Andrea, Rachel Slater

Ian JL - Lead O/S - 02/Jun/12

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 23/May/12

Hidden - Solo - 21/May/12

very very good! climbed up to fast and didnt give my self enough time to adjust to the exposure!
Andy Peak 1 - Solo - 06/May/12

disturbed_one51 - Lead - 20/Apr/12 with Juliet Bate

JJB - 2nd - 20/Apr/12 with Mark Williams

Smithy Smith - Solo O/S - 31/Mar/12

Hidden - 2012

Dan Mckinlay - 2012

Hidden - 2012

akhughes - Solo O/S - 2012

Hidden - TR dog - 06/Nov/11

Hidden - Solo - 25/Oct/11

Goose4 - Lead O/S - 20/Oct/11 with Euan McKendrick

McKEuan - 2nd - 20/Oct/11 with Angus Mckendrick

barni - 04/Oct/11

hailtryfan - 2nd O/S - Oct/11 with AJ Bowley

No gear until right at the top!
shed_hed - Lead O/S - 29/Sep/11 with Duncan Bottrill

ian d f - Solo O/S - 26/Sep/11

al123 - Solo - 24/Aug/11

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 09/Aug/11

eel - Solo O/S - 14/Jul/11

benwhit - Lead - 11/May/11

w.pettet-smith - Solo - May/11

Jonathan Hall - Solo - 14/Apr/11

Stig - Solo rpt - 22/Mar/11

harold walmsley - Solo rpt - 14/Mar/11

David Smith - 2011

Hidden - Dec/10

Hidden - Solo O/S - 22/Aug/10

Not much you can do with this one other than solo it!
Jim Slater - Solo O/S - 10/Aug/10

JamieSparkes - Solo O/S - 29/Jul/10 with Nick, Claire

Hidden - Solo O/S - 22/Jun/10

Hidden - Solo rpt - 11/Jun/10

no gear small enough, so ended up as solo!
Tom Redmond - Solo - 19/May/10 with Rian Whitham

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 18/May/10

Jim Malo - 2nd - 11/Apr/10

rockjedi - Lead O/S - 11/Apr/10

Rhythm24 - Solo - 10/Apr/10

Hidden - 2nd - 21/Mar/10

easy climbing
hilty - Solo O/S - 21/Mar/10

No proper gear, moves up the aerete very insecure, geranlly horrible route.
Brannock - Lead O/S - 21/Mar/10 with Annette

Seymore Butt - 2010

peter myers - 2010

Hidden - Solo O/S - 07/Nov/09

Pete Graham - Solo - 07/Sep/09

Hidden - Solo - Sep/09

Bernie Wylde - Lead - 16/Aug/09

Shad - 2nd - Aug/09

Surprisingly scary once you pull round the corner.
Andrew Barker - Solo O/S - 23/Jul/09 with Jack Symmons

Stig - Solo rpt - 16/Jul/09 with Charlie Reade-Jahn

Hidden - Solo - 10/Jul/09

willoates - Solo O/S - Jul/09

madmats - Solo O/S - 29/Apr/09

Hidden - Solo O/S - 26/Apr/09

Belayed Tom on it and he went up without finding a single gear placement so I didn't tie in.
Oliver Branagan - Solo O/S - 18/Apr/09

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 02/Apr/09

A bit of gear at 2.5m then nothing until the last move onto the ledge - interesting!
Bob - Lead O/S - 29/Mar/09 with M. Bullough & S. Brock

An amazing climb. Got a couple of psychological pieces of gear in, but the climbing is never hard hard. Started wondering what might happen if I did fall off. Never a good idea!
Jon Dittman - Lead - 29/Mar/09

craig d - Solo - 30/Aug/08

inuklm - Solo - 26/Jul/08 with Dave Gent

no protection at all! Exposed around the arete.
Jay Mowat - 2nd O/S - 23/Jul/08 with Ben Johnson

took the rope up but couldnt find any gear!
Benrj - Lead O/S - 23/Jul/08 with jay mowat

Very satsfying solo, nicely exposed but never dodgy!
Mattyk - Solo O/S - 21/Jul/08

maybe_si - Solo O/S - 21/Jul/08

maybe_si - Solo O/S - 14/Jul/08

davidgent - Solo O/S - Jul/08 with Kunal

Mike W - Solo - Jun/08

The guide wasn't wrong when it said "completely unprotected"!
fizzy_elephant - Lead O/S - 07/May/08 with Amy Baker

Hidden - AltLd - 11/Apr/08

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 17/Feb/08

Andrew1 - Solo - 06/Feb/08 with Charlie HW

IanJackson - Solo O/S - Feb/08

Hidden - 2008

Hidden - Solo - 05/Oct/07

Hidden - Solo O/S - 07/Sep/07

Hidden - Lead - Sep/07

Apharri - Solo O/S - Sep/07 with Dave Wharton

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 27/Aug/07

Pythonist - Solo O/S - 25/Aug/07

Hidden - TR - 22/Jul/07

climbingrick - Solo O/S - 28/Apr/07

Ben1983 - Solo O/S - 14/Apr/07

Hidden - Solo O/S - 12/Apr/07

feilx - Solo O/S - 06/Apr/07

Oceanic - Apr/07

Fantastic!! about the last route of the day (60+) with the beach boys playing on the ipod in the evening sun, long will this memory last (Aug 2010)
Graeme Hammond - Solo O/S - 02/Mar/07

Hidden - 2007

chrissloan84 - Solo O/S - 19/Aug/06

dannyboy83 - Solo O/S - Jun/06

Jus - Solo - May/06

Chris the Tall - Solo rpt - 27/Apr/06

Nicos - Solo O/S - 04/Apr/06 with solo

shark - Solo - 29/Mar/06

John Lisle - 2006

ArnaudG - 2006

Tobias at Home - 2006

shark - Solo rpt - 29/Oct/05

reg_measures - Solo O/S - Oct/05