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Belly Button Traverse** 6a+

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[Marcus on 'Belly Button Traverse' at Beeston Cliff, F6a+ (2), 3 kb]11m. Traverse the low break to the far ledge and finish up Bungle, Zippy and George, or reverse the traverse. Great fun. © ROCKFAX
FA. Mike Robertson 25.4.94. 25/Apr/1994

Ticklists: ROCKFAX Dorset 2012: Graded Sport List, Orange Spot Portland.

Photo: Marcus on 'Belly Button Traverse' at Beeston Cliff, F6a+ (2) © Dave Scott
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 33 logbooks, and on 2 wishlists.

Hidden - Solo rpt - 01/Jun/13

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 06/May/13

BrionyMartin - 2nd dog - 06/May/13 with Richy

Took a brief rest on the penultimate clip. A little bit pumpy
Martin Bagshaw - Lead dog - 20/Apr/13 with Rafal Malczyk

Rafal Malczyk - 2nd O/S - 20/Apr/13 with Martin Bagshaw

John Roberts (JR) - Solo rpt - 18/Jun/12

Felix Ottey - 2nd - 2012

plilley - Lead dog - 27/Aug/11 with Ian Rao

chris sm - Lead O/S - 23/Jul/11 with Laurel Bowler

Kopinski - Solo O/S - 03/Jul/11

both ways
Ed Babs - Solo O/S - 18/Sep/10

I was so pleased with this route. It was strenous, steep and a harder grade than the two routes I had just tried and DNF. Following a break for hands but a traverse. Tried the reverse traverse but fell off!
KateBolton - Solo O/S - 12/Sep/10

Alex More - Solo - 16/Aug/10

alaan - Solo O/S - 18/Apr/10

drewish - Solo O/S - 20/Jul/09 with SteveE9

granticus - Lead O/S - 28/Jun/09

trev_f - Solo O/S - 14/Jun/09

Hidden - Solo O/S - 30/May/09

tombeasley - Solo O/S - 2009

thomb - Solo - Aug/08 with Pete

Richard Horn - Solo O/S - 08/Jun/08

feeko - Solo O/S - 07/Jun/07

Hidden - 2007

Rob Kennard - 2007

bigie bob - Solo O/S - 20/Aug/06

penrithblencathra - Solo - 20/Jul/06 with DWS

steve taylor - Lead - 2006

Marti999 - Lead - 2006

_m.cox_ - Solo O/S - 2005

goi.ashmore - Lead O/S - 15/Jun/03 with Ben Merryfield

Subsequently soloed.
Ben Thorne - Lead O/S - 2002 with Jimbo

Hidden - 2nd - 27/Mar/99

r0b - Solo O/S - 06/Sep/97 with Andy Jefferies

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
Warren Earle, jl

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Style of ascent

Soloed18 of 33 (54.5%)
Lead8 of 33 (24.2%)
Followed5 of 33 (15.2%)
Unknown2 of 33 (6.1%)

'Climbed'9 of 33 (27.3%)
clean O/S19 of 33 (57.6%)
clean rpt2 of 33 (6.1%)
dogged3 of 33 (9.1%)