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Cave Crack* HVS 5a

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6m. The roof crack is good practice for bigger things, and we all know what they are! © ROCKFAX

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Practice for the sloth? I found this substantially harder! The jams do go in nicely at the roof though
Nick Russell - Lead O/S - 27/May/12 with Steve

richard31 - 2nd O/S - 03/Jun/11 with Matt Brennan

took a rest. then did it clean on shazzers gear. HARD!
donkster - Lead - 2011 with andi, sharratt

GF - 2010

Jamming sucks!
dja - Lead dnf - 14/Jul/08 with Andy Smith

daveagriff - Lead - 2008

Hidden - Lead - 2007

John Lisle - 2006

mark s - Solo - 2005

thetourist - Lead - 14/Nov/04 with Jonathan Aitken

FrankW - Lead O/S - 15/May/04 with Joe

SteveM - Lead - 28/Mar/04 with Roger

cem - 2nd O/S - 14/Jun/03 with Rod Strachan

Neil Curtis - 2nd - 14/Sep/02 with Andy Goddard

kato'sdad - 2nd - 08/Aug/00 with Rob Simpson

RobSimmo - Lead - 08/Aug/00 with Jon Berry

?? pts rest! I think I tried this as the 'recommended' training for The Sloth, and found it so hard that I didn't even attempt its bigger brother!
Nick Smith - UKC - Lead dog - May/00

Hidden - Lead RP - 1998

Roget - Lead rpt - 16/Apr/97

nai - Lead - 1995

Scott McRae - Jun/94 with Tim Basset

Duncan Bourne - 2nd - 01/May/94 with E Allcock

Hidden - Solo O/S - 13/Jan/90

Roget - 2nd O/S - Aug/89 with jim

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Style of ascent

Soloed2 of 24 (8.3%)
Lead13 of 24 (54.2%)
Followed6 of 24 (25.0%)
Unknown3 of 24 (12.5%)

'Climbed'14 of 24 (58.3%)
clean O/S6 of 24 (25.0%)
clean rpt1 of 24 (4.2%)
clean RP1 of 24 (4.2%)
dogged1 of 24 (4.2%)
dnf1 of 24 (4.2%)