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Janker's Groove* VS 4c

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[awkward, 3 kb]10m. The right-hand of the grooves is approached from the previous climb. The direct start is a classic 6b featuring a heave on a fist-crunching jam, it was Whillans' barmy idea though apparently he never completed it. © ROCKFAX
FA. Joe Brown 1948

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This climb is in 258 logbooks, and on 3 wishlists.

rob.grafton - AltLd - 12/May/13 with Martin Smith

Hidden - Lead O/S - 14/Apr/13

Kirill - 2nd rpt - 14/Apr/13 with Paul Bolton

Hidden - 2nd - 14/Apr/13

shite
the power - Lead O/S - 09/Apr/13 with charlie

stuaart - 2nd - 17/Mar/13 with Chris Burn

Hidden - 2nd - 02/Mar/13

Hidden - 2013

kingjam - Lead - 2013

Hidden - 2nd β - 16/Dec/12

A good tussle.
AlexanderRyanBanks - Lead O/S - 14/Oct/12 with Jo

slacky - Lead O/S - 08/Sep/12 with Andes, Ben

Hidden - Lead O/S - 18/Aug/12

oodie72 - Lead dog - 21/Jul/12 with Alex Pond

sazmaz - Lead O/S - 01/Jun/12 with Frank Ramsden

A bit of a struggle and hot too. Missed footholds that could not be seen once in the groove. Would do better next time but I doubt that I will bother
Neil Rodgers (PCC) - Lead dog - 24/May/12 with Marilyn

sambosanquet101 - 2nd - 20/May/12 with Peter Darch

madasten - 2nd - 20/May/12 with Gaz

pldarch - Lead O/S - 20/May/12 with Sam

ipegg - Lead O/S - 12/May/12 with Gavin Philips

gavster2405 - 2nd - 12/May/12 with Ian Pegg

gavinpeach - 2nd O/S - 01/Apr/12 with David Shelmerdine

David Shelmerdine - Lead dog - 01/Apr/12 with Gavin Peach

False start on first attempt to get in the groove, 2nd go sorted feet out much better.
Steve13 - Lead dog - 25/Mar/12 with Craig Lukins

clukins - 2nd β - 25/Mar/12 with Steve Holland

Last route of the day and no pushover!
Falko - Lead O/S - 20/Mar/12 with Al W.

Kirill - 2nd dog - 18/Mar/12 with Elise Belle, Graham Dolman

mark4344 - 2nd - 07/Mar/12 with Matt Payne

cheeky - Lead - 07/Mar/12 with Mark Philipson

Elise2977 - 2nd O/S - Mar/12

Oceanic - 08/Jan/12

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - 2012

deacondeacon - Lead - 21/Nov/11

tonanf - AltLd - Nov/11

wet, pulled on gear
Kirill - Lead dog - 30/Oct/11 with Charles Moreton

psychomansam - Lead O/S - 30/Oct/11

cem - 2nd rpt - 30/Oct/11 with Kirill Spiridonov

lizzie789 - 2nd O/S - 30/Oct/11 with Marc Duhig


marcduhig - Lead O/S - 30/Oct/11 with Sexy Liz

stratandrew - 2nd - 16/Oct/11 with Ozcan Yanik

ozzie35 - Lead O/S - 16/Oct/11 with Andy Stratford

r fizzle - Lead O/S - 25/Sep/11 with Olli Crudge

Hidden - Lead - 31/Aug/11

kermit_uk - Lead O/S - 15/Aug/11 with Kurt Davy

KurtD - 2nd O/S - 15/Aug/11 with Cameron Anderson

Dave89 - Lead O/S - 31/Jul/11 with Andre

Joris.Roulleau - 2nd O/S - 24/Jul/11 with Vic Odell

belay bunny turned bad - Lead O/S - 23/Jul/11 with Hannah, loundsy

loundsy - 2nd O/S - 23/Jul/11 with Hannah

Hidden - Lead O/S - 19/Jun/11

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 19/Jun/11

b.hayley - Lead O/S - 21/May/11

AlexxelA - Lead O/S - 19/May/11

Graeme Hammond - Lead O/S - 19/May/11 with John

John Bish - Lead O/S - 14/May/11

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 19/Apr/11

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 17/Apr/11

RiverRoam - Lead O/S - 17/Apr/11 with Martin Wing

Hidden - 2nd - 14/Apr/11

Monkey_Alan - Lead O/S - 10/Apr/11 with Max Streeton

Hidden - Lead - 10/Apr/11

Climbed with far more grace then when I lead it a year or so ago!
lrandall - 2nd - 10/Apr/11 with French

Hidden - 2nd - 10/Apr/11

Gerlach - TR - 02/Apr/11 with Steve Blatherwick

Hidden - TR O/S - 26/Mar/11

Hidden - 26/Mar/11

Guy Atkinson - 2nd O/S - 18/Mar/11 with Chris Swift

timofy - Lead O/S - 12/Mar/11

Hidden - Lead - 2011

Hidden - Lead - 27/Nov/10

monika paprzycka - 2nd - 27/Nov/10 with Jeremy Axford

Hidden - Lead O/S - 13/Nov/10

Hidden - Lead O/S - 13/Nov/10

Darrell Read - Lead - 07/Nov/10 with William Moore

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 30/Oct/10

ClimberJimmyB - Lead O/S - 30/Oct/10 with Dan Matthewman

Nasty thrutch into the groove.
Andrew Sloan - Lead O/S - 29/Oct/10

pebbles - 2nd - 24/Oct/10 with kirk

Bex_M - 2nd dog - 24/Oct/10 with Duncan Dunbar

Thrutched my way up despite being well aware that it could be done much more nicely, much more fun!
Byronius Maximus - Lead O/S - 17/Oct/10 with Ben Littley

Hidden - Lead - 11/Oct/10

Bird lead. Glad I seconded, made a right mess of getting into the groove.
treg - 2nd - 02/Oct/10 with Ben, Bird

Hidden - 25/Sep/10

Hidden - 2nd - 25/Sep/10

Ollie B - Lead O/S - 17/Sep/10

mattime18 - 2nd O/S - Sep/10 with olly burrows

Luuuuuke - 2nd O/S - 31/Aug/10 with Ian

oooeese - Lead O/S - 30/Aug/10 with stvey

Did traditional start involving extra hand traverse (plus trees, sand, etc). Fun!
Bobby Gilbert - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/10 with Katherine Sydney

did old skool start with extra traverse. had trouble committing to swinging fall with face in tree and hands in sand
katherinesydney - 2nd dnf - 22/Aug/10 with bobby gilbert

Jim Malo - Lead O/S - 10/Aug/10 with Tim, Barry

fatbuoybazza - Lead O/S - 10/Aug/10 with jim, TimG

Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Aug/10

Nicest of the three Jankers. Enjoyed this, although crux does draw you into the crack where its horrible (don't go there!)
climbingrev - Lead O/S - 26/Jul/10 with Tim Angell

Hidden - Lead O/S - 11/Jul/10

Steve Mc D lead this even though I warned him he wouldn't like it. And he didn't - spent a long time half-wedged at the bottom of the flared crack. With the benefi tof the rope above me, I discovered that if you're happy to pull on some small crimps, you pull up into the big crack without having to do any of the 'thruthy' stuff.
djones66 - 2nd O/S - 01/Jul/10 with Stve mc D

James_D - Lead O/S - 05/Jun/10 with Esther

ajc - Lead O/S - 22/May/10

Hidden - Lead - 15/May/10

jcurley - Lead O/S - 14/May/10 with Horace

pauldr - 2nd - 09/May/10

Traditional thrutching manoeuvres!
Ragnaar - 2nd O/S - 22/Apr/10 with martin hirons

ggflett - TR O/S - 11/Apr/10 with John Carlin

Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Mar/10

Awkward but not bad.
CharlotteJelleyman - Lead O/S - 23/Jan/10 with Steve Franklin

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2010

disturbed_one51 - 2nd - 01/Dec/09 with Wee man

Jonathan Hall - Lead - 01/Dec/09 with Mark Williams

Funky. Somehow ended up with my back to the groove.
lrandall - Lead O/S - 18/Oct/09 with Alex

Less of a struggle than Jankers Crack - but not much
Babika - 2nd - 11/Oct/09 with Charles Leek

Becky E - 2nd - 10/Oct/09 with Phil Lee

Pelleas - 2nd - 13/Sep/09 with John S., Norman

Neil D - 2nd O/S - 23/Aug/09 with Ben Ram

thecurlyone - Lead O/S - 23/Aug/09 with Neil D

dimwit18 - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/09 with Keith Peck

Awkward route made awkwarder by Peri's peculiar nut placement that I had to retrieve. Squirm into the final crack is great fun.
Will Smith - 2nd O/S - 11/Aug/09 with Rob and Peri

much fun watching peri fold herself into the top crack whilst ignoring the ledges for feet!
lithos - 2nd - 11/Aug/09 with will smith

just coz youre not flexible enough, rob...
pebbles - Lead O/S - 11/Aug/09 with will, rob

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 02/Aug/09

Hidden - 2nd - 18/Jul/09

I made this hard work,
Pilch - Lead O/S - 19/Jun/09 with graham and Jon

slacky - Lead O/S - 28/May/09 with Ben Abell & Tim

Lizzy Andrew - 2nd - 14/May/09 with Mark Taylor

vvanhinsbergh - 2nd O/S - 10/May/09 with John Brannock

Hidden - Lead rpt - 03/May/09

Hidden - Lead - May/09

richorme - 2nd O/S - 25/Apr/09 with Wendy Potts

tompilgrem - 2nd - 15/Apr/09 with Dad

bobpilgrem - Lead O/S - 15/Apr/09 with Bob/Tom

Hidden - Lead - 11/Apr/09

bjlsmith - 2nd - 21/Mar/09 with Roger and SMC

Chris Harding - Lead O/S - 15/Mar/09 with Dave Stevenson

Don Jebus - Lead O/S - 14/Jan/09 with tom morgan

sdht - 2009

inuklm - 2009 with Henry Close-Brooks

Hidden - 2009

Brown - Solo O/S - 07/Dec/08

Hidden - Lead O/S - 21/Sep/08

Gareth Clendinning (UBMC) - 2nd O/S - 21/Sep/08 with Neil Mackie

Dave led. Awkward body jam.
wanderso - 2nd O/S - 10/Aug/08 with David Anderson

Hidden - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/08

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 24/Apr/08

marccb6 - Lead - 08/Mar/08 with Tom

Jim Walton - 2008

daveagriff - 2nd - 2008

Sean Kelly - 2008

richyg - 2008

Hidden - 2008

steve2006 - Lead O/S - 2008 with tim, Andrew Pearson

RocknRoll - Lead O/S - 31/Dec/07 with Jim Slater

Jim Slater - 2nd O/S - 31/Dec/07 with Gerry Sheehy

First lead ever
Mike Goldthorp - Lead O/S - Dec/07 with Kieran King

Somerset swede basher - Lead O/S - 18/Oct/07 with Sarah Stirling

Hidden - 2nd - 18/Oct/07

Hidden - Lead - 06/Oct/07

Awkward.
duzinga - 2nd O/S - 06/Oct/07 with Pete

erica - 2nd - 29/Sep/07 with John

John Brayshaw - Lead O/S - 29/Sep/07 with Erica

Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/Sep/07

SteveM - 2nd rpt - 01/Sep/07 with Kat

Hidden - Lead - 22/Aug/07

mr random - Lead O/S - Jun/07 with Costas

malc - Lead rpt - 23/May/07 with Paul S

Hidden - Lead O/S - 07/Apr/07

Set off to do Janker's Crack, but backed off onto Janker's Groove instead. Nice knee-bar action!
victim of mathematics - Lead O/S - 10/Mar/07 with Martin

simonw1 - 2nd O/S - 28/Jan/07 with Allan Watson

toasted - Lead - 2007 with Simon Whitehead

Hidden - 2007

Brian Rodgers - Lead - 2007

Hidden - 2007

featuresforfeet - Lead O/S - 17/Dec/06 with SecretSquirrel

SecretSquirrel - 2nd - 17/Dec/06 with featuresforfeet

Crux is a right old squirm, the rest of it is pretty pleasant.
adam carless - Lead rpt - 03/Nov/06 with dpmuk

dpmUK - 2nd O/S - 03/Nov/06 with Adam Carless

Andy Clarke - Lead O/S - 03/Nov/06 with Tommo, Rob

Timothy Greenhalgh - 2nd - 29/Oct/06 with Chico

tri-nitro-toulumne - Lead O/S - 25/Aug/06 with James Booth

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 19/Aug/06

Got horribly stuck and only managed with a significant amount of knee scraping!
andybeanland - 2nd O/S - Aug/06 with Graham Withers

Wierd and awkward, doesnt deserve a star.
Chriswallis2 - Lead O/S - 24/Jun/06 with Jim

baldcoder - Lead O/S - 27/May/06 with LR_Davidson

baldcoder - Lead O/S - 27/May/06 with Little Old Lady

Stig - 2nd O/S - 25/Apr/06 with Charlie Reade-Jahn

Nicos - Solo O/S - 05/Apr/06 with solo

ChrisJD - Lead - 18/Feb/06 with rc

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 18/Feb/06

Tobias at Home - 2nd rpt - 11/Feb/06 with SteveM

SteveM - Lead rpt - 11/Feb/06 with Tobs

IOAN D - Lead - 28/Jan/06 with rhys

dan gibson - 2006

John Lisle - 2006

cem - Lead O/S - 19/Nov/05 with Graham Dolman

Hidden - Lead - 12/Nov/05

FrankW - 2nd O/S - 09/Oct/05 with Sam Gerrard

A Crook - Lead O/S - 13/Aug/05 with Dom Stockton

Hidden - Lead O/S - Aug/05

Budge - 2nd O/S - 19/May/05 with Carl Tiivas

Hidden - Lead O/S - May/05

mel holmes - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/05 with Nancy Maitland

Rampikino - Lead - 16/Apr/05 with Rob Wilson

Dave Mason - Lead O/S - Apr/05 with Andrew Roach

Pythonist - 2nd O/S - 2005 with Chris Jennions

Hidden - 2nd - 14/Nov/04

Cake - Lead - 14/Nov/04 with Matt

Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH - Solo O/S - 15/May/04

rob wmc - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/04 with Pete & Alex ww

GrahamHP - Lead - 2004 with Elved Roberts

Marq - Lead O/S - 19/Oct/03 with Daniel Dennehy

John Kettle - Lead - 2003

Ben1983 - Lead O/S - Sep/02

djking1983 - Lead - 24/Aug/02

PenJD - Lead O/S - 27/Jul/02 with Jon Ascroft

Duncan I - Lead - 2002

Budge - Lead O/S - 18/Jun/01 with Mike Oates

rlrs - Lead dnf - 2001

Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Oct/00

malc - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/00 with RL

marcoleptic - Lead O/S - 2000 with Mel

Roget - Lead O/S - 27/Dec/99

Reds - Lead O/S - 31/Aug/98 with Sezer

timreynolds - 2nd - 24/May/98 with John Burnip

Scott McRae - 21/Mar/98 with Tim Basset

WB - Lead O/S - 1998

Hidden - Lead O/S - 12/Oct/97

Nick Smith - UKC - 2nd - Oct/97

At one point I was facing out!
Paul-Michael - Lead O/S - 17/Aug/97 with Paul Nurse

Hidden - 1997

Phil West - 2nd O/S - Aug/95 with Steve Wild & jimmy Turner

Yourlead - 2nd - 10/Jun/95 with Graham Penny

John Southworth - May/95

Chris Ellis - Lead O/S - 13/Jun/94 with Mark Pudner

Hammy - AltLd - 25/May/94 with Pete Robinson

Hidden - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/94

stevieb - TR O/S - 20/May/92 with Nick Knorr

Tony Little - Solo O/S - 13/May/92 with Chris, Vince, Alan and James

Hidden - 2nd - 04/May/92

Marti999 - Lead - 1990

Nick Rundall - Lead O/S - 1990

Laramadness - 2nd - 03/Sep/89

Hidden - 1989

Raggar - 2nd - 09/Oct/88 with Guy C, Jon B

sinbad - 2nd - 31/Oct/87 with Kenny

Tony Buckley - Jul/86 with Tony Jinks

charlesmfrench - Lead O/S - 08/May/83

Ken Taylor - AltLd - 23/Mar/82 with Andy Bond

Ian Clare - 1982

babymoac - Lead - Jun/81 with MTW

Ghastly Rubberfeet - Solo - 1981

Dave Musgrove - Lead - 1980

Nigel Bond - Lead - 25/Jun/79 with Martin Crosby

Hidden - Lead O/S - 13/May/78

Andy Say - Lead - 1978

Mark Kemball - Lead - 08/Feb/75

Hidden - Lead - 21/Jul/74

rogerskews - 1973

RichardMc - Lead - 1971

David Smith - 1970

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Style of ascent

Soloed5 of 258 (1.9%)
Lead138 of 258 (53.5%)
Followed81 of 258 (31.4%)
Toproped4 of 258 (1.6%)
Alt Leads5 of 258 (1.9%)
Unknown25 of 258 (9.7%)

'Climbed'104 of 258 (40.3%)
clean O/S135 of 258 (52.3%)
clean β2 of 258 (0.8%)
clean rpt8 of 258 (3.1%)
dogged7 of 258 (2.7%)
dnf2 of 258 (0.8%)