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Derbyshire > Black Rocks >

Lean Man's Climb

VS 5a

Adjacent Climbs
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22m. Tackle the awkward and slippery elephant's-ear layback (crux) to good ledges; tree belay. Climb the wall leftwards following the superb zig-zag crack into a final steep groove (4c). © ROCKFAX
FA. Fred Pigott 1920. FA. (the flake start) Eric Byne 1933

Ticklists: Steve Ashton's 100 Classic Gritstone Climbs, Froggatt to Black Rocks (BMC) - The Grade List, Eastern Peak Grit 100 VD- VS, Peak Gritstone S-HVS **+.

Photo: Lean Man's Climb, Black Rocks © Chris Craggs
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS

This climb is in 155 logbooks, and on 7 wishlists.

Repeat.
jshields - 2nd - 17/Apr/13 with Dean Jones

quality, well protected climb.
Jones_d - Lead O/S - 17/Apr/13 with Jon Shields

pie_eater_pete - Lead O/S - 23/Aug/12 with Dave Sargent

davewsargent - 2nd rpt - 22/Aug/12 with peter sargent

Led P1.
Alex.M-M. - AltLd rpt - 19/Aug/12

lovely route, interesting holds, good jams and clean solid rock :D
JamieSparkes - Lead O/S - 16/Aug/12 with Claire

mikelawrence aka jonnienomates - Lead - 14/Aug/12 with James the Navigator

Savlon - 2nd - 09/Aug/12 with Luke Perry, Dave Bowler

melonmike - Lead O/S - 04/Aug/12 with Nick

r fizzle - 2nd O/S - 04/Aug/12 with Olli Crudge

Olli-C - Lead O/S - 04/Aug/12 with Rachel Slater

nic42 - 2nd O/S - 04/Aug/12 with mike

tgeh - 2nd O/S - 25/Jul/12 with dan geh

Dan Geh - Lead O/S - 25/Jul/12 with Thomas Geh

fatbuoybazza - 2nd O/S - 01/Jul/12 with deborah

Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/Jul/12

really nice climb. looking forward to leading it.
joe hallam - Solo O/S - 05/Jun/12

Lead in 1 pitch
Climbster - Lead O/S - 02/Jun/12 with Leslie

davewsargent - 2nd - 17/May/12

Stefan_Morris - Lead O/S - 15/Apr/12 with Alex

Fraser hill-casey - Lead O/S - 15/Apr/12 with AndrewJamesCherry

Enjoyed it all. VERY COLD
AndrewJamesCherry - Lead O/S - 15/Apr/12

gordonday - Lead rpt - 17/Mar/12 with clive

whitehouse_rhys - Lead O/S - 2012

Heather Osborne - 2012 with Craig Osborne

JohnHutch - Lead O/S - 26/Sep/11 with L

Hidden - Lead O/S - Sep/11

Led 2nd pitch. Great stuff! Giant holds to tenuous moves on tiny footholds, with a good dollop of Elvis foot, to monster jams in a fantastic position.
LP - AltLd O/S - 15/Aug/11

Easy but polished and ridiculously dirty and vegetated exiting the slab! It's one thing to have grass on holds and a different league altogether to have grass growing out of the holds... Needs some gardening for sure.
Alkis - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/11 with Chris Nawrat

althesin - Lead - 02/Jul/11 with Reds

Reds - 2nd O/S - 02/Jul/11 with Althesin

M_W_Court - Lead O/S - 27/Jun/11 with Pagey

spragglerocks - Lead O/S - 04/Jun/11 with Bruce LMC

Dan724 - Lead O/S - 31/May/11 with Raji Salan

Brilliant route. Some nice moves with good gear and a bit of exposure in places. Much easier than Birch Tree Wall but still a great challenge. Lead it all in 1 pitch.
gavinpeach - Lead O/S - 21/May/11 with Liam Ward

Graeme Hammond - 2nd rpt - 15/May/11 with james pcc

Hidden - Lead O/S - 15/May/11

davewsargent - Lead O/S - 04/May/11

shaky2 - Lead - 03/May/11

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 03/May/11

migs493 - 2nd β - 30/Apr/11 with LO

lozowen - Lead O/S - 30/Apr/11

shouter - Lead - 24/Apr/11

colin milton - Lead - 23/Apr/11 with martin

Hidden - Solo O/S - 20/Apr/11

slippy first section and pretty desperate towards the top. Great route though.
gb83 - 2nd O/S - 16/Apr/11 with masa

Started from the Indirect. Brilliant route.
masa-alpin - Lead O/S - 16/Apr/11 with Graeme B

RossT - AltLd - 15/Apr/11 with Andrew Edwards

Done it all in 1 pitch, managed the ear without too much problem. the final few moves of the 2nd pitch are great! Some fantastic jamming to be had!
oddessy_uk - Lead O/S - 23/Mar/11 with Luke Spencer

SPENCER41 - 2nd O/S - 23/Mar/11 with Jason Curle

Scottish78 - 2011

Hidden - 2011

layback polished
AielSavage - Lead O/S - 2011

thedoctorisin - 2011

Jim Slater - Lead O/S - 17/Oct/10 with Graeme Hammond

Graeme Hammond - 2nd rpt - 17/Oct/10 with Jim

tomthecoolperson - Lead O/S - 25/Sep/10 with Andrew

Started up indirect start. Had climbed the elephants ear bit before but bottled the top so went back today to do the top.
kermit_uk - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/10 with Kurt Davy

KurtD - 2nd O/S - 22/Aug/10 with Cameron Anderson

Daymo - 2nd O/S - 19/Aug/10 with DJ

deejmonkey - Lead - 19/Aug/10 with Damian

nice moves!
thomb - Lead - 17/Jul/10 with Maddy

Hidden - AltLd - 28/Jun/10

rob wmc - Lead O/S - 20/Jun/10 with Alan

kevp - Lead O/S - 05/Jun/10 with Sarah Gardner

zassy - 2nd O/S - 05/Jun/10 with Kevin Page

Cool lay backing to start with and mint clean upper wall, Very Nice!!
Graeme Hammond - Lead O/S - 31/May/10 with Pete aka Dad

highrepute - Lead O/S - 31/May/10

Sarah Brookes - 2nd O/S - 28/Apr/10 with terry

great route.
Milne - Lead O/S - 28/Apr/10 with dave saxby

Gustav - 2nd O/S - 27/Apr/10 with Matt B

Matt Fry - 2nd O/S - 26/Apr/10 with Andy Janezko

bigdrew - Lead rpt - 26/Apr/10 with Matt Fry

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 2010

joshen - Lead O/S - 2010

Led both pitches. The moves in the middle of the first pitch are great and the second pitch really catches you off guard if you are not ready for a limb swallowing gritstone crack!
tom.ireson - Lead O/S - 13/Sep/09 with Guv Jagdev

Chewie - 2nd - 23/Aug/09

The supposed crux over the elephant's ear was fairly simple. The tree belay is no longer there and the final move in the top crack took quite a while to work out. Deserves its stars, a great route.
boulderholder - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/09 with Paul Taylor

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

stvey - 2nd O/S - 29/Jun/09 with Jay_Kay

dan gibson - Solo O/S - 16/Jun/09

Retro Flash. Led 1st (Elephant's ear) pitch. Great moves - though the lichen is really slippery - keep off!
climbingrev - AltLd O/S - 15/Jun/09 with Tim Angell

chrisclimber_1986 - Lead O/S - 07/Jun/09 with Luke Lindsay

Hidden - Lead O/S - 31/May/09

keith leonard - 2009

Stig - 2nd O/S - 10/Aug/08 with Charlie Reade-Jahn

oi_now - 30/Jun/08

Hidden - AltLd dog - 25/Jun/08

Alfredo - Lead - Jun/08

b.hayley - Lead O/S - Jun/08

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

Hidden - 2nd - 18/May/08

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 02/Mar/08

thrutch - 2008

Hidden - 2008

Hidden - 2nd - 01/Nov/07

Katya - Lead O/S - 12/Sep/07 with AndyG

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 08/Sep/07

clintos - AltLd - 04/Sep/07 with jonny green

Hidden - Jul/07

I did first pitch. Ed led second
Pilch - AltLd O/S - 07/Jun/07 with Ed

struggled on elephants ear for a bit, then lead 2nd pitch - which I cant remeber.
EdShep - AltLd O/S - 06/Jun/07 with Pilch

Si dH - 2nd rpt - 18/Apr/07 with Neil Furniss

Andy Peak 1 - AltLd - 2007

Hidden - Lead - 23/Sep/06

A nice route, start with a delicate layback. The 2nd crux at the top is a difficult off-balance crack. Careful what you put in the belay device!
Mark_RMC - Lead O/S - 17/Sep/06 with Michelle

cem - Lead O/S - 20/Aug/06 with Graham Dolman

Hidden - Lead - 2006

Si dH - AltLd O/S - 28/May/05 with Alex Gaastra

tatz45 - Lead O/S - May/05 with Quentin O'Brien

Dave Mason - Lead O/S - 2005 with Trev Tatler

Hidden - Lead O/S - 26/Sep/04

Hidden - Lead O/S - 03/Mar/04

Dave Bond - Lead O/S - 2004 with charles

thomasholyoak - Lead O/S - Oct/03 with DS

Set out in OPR as 2 pitch, but did in one. Elephant ear layback followed by crack and groove climbing. From word go a serious proposition. Elephant ear layback good and solid with great gear. Top pitch not as hard technically, but exposure great!. Felt as tenuous as anything. At top of first stance, felt satisfied, but the best was yet to come. Grooves brilliant, but really have to be jammed. Cut loose on final move, left hanging by one arm from a classic grit sloper! Great foot jam saved the day :-))
climbingrev - Lead O/S - 26/Aug/03

Hidden - Solo - Jul/03

Stefan Kruger - Lead O/S - 28/Jun/03 with Peter Meulemans

Different Steve - Lead - May/03 with Christina Ennis

Peakology - Lead O/S - 2003 with cat

Chalky Cat - 2nd O/S - 2003 with Dom

samwelli - Lead O/S - 04/Sep/02 with Reuben Brown

Phil West - 2nd O/S - 17/Aug/02 with Chris Tan

Hidden - Lead - 21/May/02

chrishedgehog - Lead O/S - 12/May/02 with Clare Wilkie

Hidden - Lead - 02/May/02

petekeron - Lead O/S - 2002

Budge - Lead O/S - 17/Sep/01 with Mike Oates