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Brown's Crack** E2 5c

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[Getting eaten at ramshaw, 2 kb]14m. The central crack leads awkwardly to the capping overhang which provides the main meat of the route. An awkward accursed struggle for most, prepare to be mauled! 'Technically by far the most difficult route here', 1973 guide. © ROCKFAX
FA. Joe Brown 1950s 1955

Ticklists: BMC staffordshire "crackers dozen" crack school, The Roaches - Routes Graded List, Gritstone's finest gruesome and damaging struggles, ROCKFAX Western Grit Grade List.

Photo: Getting eaten at ramshaw © Roslyn
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This climb is in 51 logbooks, and on 8 wishlists.

andi turner - 2013

had a real and prolonged battle at the crux, but finally managed to top out cleanly. I almost could not believe it... Tremendous experience!
masa-alpin - Lead O/S - 14/Oct/12 with Mitch

Number Six of the attempt on the Staffordshire Nose
Brown - Lead - 22/Sep/12 with Andy R

Fairly clean sequence with high left foot, but still painful fists.
Daniel Heath - Lead β - 05/Sep/12 with Eszter

Attempted on Marks gear, couldn't work out how to get into the upper crack on this, desperate.
RFWilkie - Lead dnf - 26/Jul/12 with Mark

Still have the scars from attempting this.
WillDoyle - Lead dnf - 25/Jun/12

still easier than don's crack
Alex@home - 2nd rpt - 30/May/12 with The Doctor

Plain hard! but well protected, a few fat fists and a bit of gusto help you on your way... quality :)
Graeme Hammond - Lead O/S - 15/Apr/12 with Richard

stonemonkey159 - Lead O/S - 27/Mar/12 with Tom Pilgrim

cleanest E2 so far, felt really good on the way up, feels painful now
timmyhobby - Lead O/S - 22/Mar/12

CragDog - Lead O/S - 25/Feb/12

Hidden - 2012

cat22 - 2nd dnf - 06/Nov/11 with Mike

Hidden - Lead RP - 07/Aug/11

Hidden - Lead - 30/Jul/11

(Ground up) Very hard! Got it clean on 6th attempt - yes!
BeccaSnowden - Lead RP - 23/Jul/11 with Tom

Nearly! Made it to left hand in the top crack plenty times but just couldn't uncontort myself to get through. Ill be back for a rematch with more use of knees. Wear an old jumper, my arms are wrecked!
JRae - Lead dnf - 23/Jul/11 with A Saul

Tough, sustained jamming. Only just made it!
thomasadixon - Lead O/S - 23/Jul/11 with Becca

belay bunny turned bad - 2nd - 26/Jun/11 with loundsy

Hidden - Lead O/S - 26/Jun/11

Hidden - Lead dog - 11/Jun/11

Hidden - Lead O/S - 09/Apr/11

Hidden - 2nd - 13/Mar/11

JamieSparkes - Lead O/S - 13/Mar/11

bigie bob - Lead O/S - 02/Mar/11

switch - Lead O/S - 12/Feb/11 with Nickie

Bloody hell thats hard Brown 1 - 0 Rhodes will be going back for a rematch
pauldr - Lead dnf - 19/Aug/10 with P. Mitchell

Jimbo_28 - Lead rpt - 06/Jul/10

Had a good go, but this is hard. No way you'd fall off, my problem was that I couldn't make any upward progress - nearly there but bailed from the very last udge!
Tom Last - Lead dnf - 16/Jun/10 with mkean

DanT - TR dnf - 29/May/10 with Jon Aston

Boy - 17/Apr/10 with Adam , Nige Kershaw

Hidden - Lead - 2010

nickcanute - Lead O/S - 2010

dannyboy83 - 2nd - Oct/09 with Floris

Hidden - Lead O/S - 29/Apr/09

jcurley - 2nd dnf - 10/Jun/08 with Mike Buddle

Pete Graham - Lead - 31/May/08 with Luke Porter

Hidden - Lead O/S - 03/May/08

Hidden - 2nd dnf - 03/May/08

mark s - Lead - 29/Sep/07 with andi t

Mr Wild - Lead dnf - 07/Jun/07 with Greg

mark s - 2005

Hidden - Lead - 22/Sep/02

goi.ashmore - Lead O/S - 18/Jun/02 with Duncan Irving

Roget - Lead O/S - 2002 with jon

Hidden - 2nd - 15/Jul/01

Hidden - Lead dog - 1999

Hidden - Lead O/S - Jul/96

WB - Lead O/S - 1996 with Guy

ian caton - 1995 with Martin

Hidden - Lead - 14/Oct/84

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
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Voting
Total votes cast 53
hard E30 of 19
E30 of 19
easy E31 of 19
hard E25 of 19
E27 of 19
easy E21 of 19
hard E15 of 19
E10 of 19
easy E10 of 19
hard 6a0 of 18
6a0 of 18
easy 6a2 of 18
hard 5c10 of 18
5c4 of 18
easy 5c0 of 18
hard 5b2 of 18
5b0 of 18
easy 5b0 of 18
3 Stars7 of 16
2 Stars9 of 16
1 Star0 of 16
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Style of ascent

Lead37 of 51 (72.5%)
Followed8 of 51 (15.7%)
Toproped1 of 51 (2.0%)
Unknown5 of 51 (9.8%)

'Climbed'16 of 51 (31.4%)
clean O/S18 of 51 (35.3%)
clean β1 of 51 (2.0%)
clean rpt2 of 51 (3.9%)
clean RP2 of 51 (3.9%)
dogged2 of 51 (3.9%)
dnf10 of 51 (19.6%)