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Foord's Folly*** E1 6a

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[Foord's Folly Area, 3 kb]10m. The superb crack and groove are usually soloed as stopping to place gear is such hard work and may make it E2. © ROCKFAX
FA. Colin Foord late 1960s. FFA. John Allen 1973. Originally it was climbed on a wet day using nuts to an in-situ peg and called The Big Frig (VS and A1). The name was changed just before the 1973 guide went to print. Chris Craggs took the peg out in the 1967

Ticklists: BMC staffordshire "crackers dozen" crack school, ROCKFAX Western Grit Grade List.

Photo: Foord's Folly Area © ROCKFAX
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This climb is in 23 logbooks, and on 4 wishlists.

To the middle jug, stout.
Ian Broome - Sent - 25/Feb/12 with Pete, Grant

Solo full route above pads, took a massive but safe fall from the upper crack going for first juggy jam over the bulge. Got next go but then realised there was one more hard moves before it eased off onto slightly damp and green jams above, but falling off was not an option by then. EXCELLENT!!!!
Graeme Hammond - Solo rpt - 19/Nov/11 with Martin Williams, john Bramwell, Richard

Only the start
MartinWilliams87 - Sent x - 19/Nov/11 with Richard Williams

Hidden - Solo dnf - 23/Jul/11

no skin/arms left.
benkelsey - Solo dnf - 23/Jul/11 with Remus Knowles

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

Fell off jug. Very tired, didn't bother with 2nd attempt
sam820 - Lead dnf - 24/Oct/10 with Fresher

dominic lee - Solo rpt - 28/Aug/10 with nathan lee

Hidden - Lead - 2010

dan gibson - Solo O/S - 03/Jun/09

With pad. Seemed easy for 6a, got it first time.
joe larner - Solo O/S - 03/Apr/09

Bottled top out from jug.
Paz - Sent dnf - 17/Dec/08

Birdo - Solo RP - Aug/08

Hidden - Lead dog - 04/Jun/05

Tom Briggs - Jagged Globe - 2005

mark s - 2005

r0b - Lead dnf - 12/Apr/04 with Andy Smith

Hidden - 2003

Roget - Solo rpt - 2003

Jon Read - Aug/01

1 fall
Billg - Lead dog - Nov/98 with Phil McAllistair

andrew300169 - Lead dnf - 30/Jun/93 with Pom

nai - Solo - 1991

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Voting
Total votes cast 54
hard E20 of 13
E20 of 13
easy E29 of 13
hard E13 of 13
E11 of 13
easy E10 of 13
hard HVS0 of 13
HVS0 of 13
easy HVS0 of 13
hard 6b0 of 22
6b0 of 22
easy 6b2 of 22
hard 6a3 of 22
6a16 of 22
easy 6a0 of 22
hard 5c1 of 22
5c0 of 22
easy 5c0 of 22
3 Stars13 of 19
2 Stars5 of 19
1 Star1 of 19
0 Stars0 of 19
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Style of ascent

Soloed9 of 23 (39.1%)
Lead7 of 23 (30.4%)
Bouldered3 of 23 (13.0%)
Unknown4 of 23 (17.4%)

'Climbed'7 of 23 (30.4%)
clean O/S3 of 23 (13.0%)
clean rpt3 of 23 (13.0%)
clean RP2 of 23 (8.7%)
dogged2 of 23 (8.7%)
dnf6 of 23 (26.1%)