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Crooked Mile*** E4 6a

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[Gurning hard on Crooked Mile (E4 6a), 3 kb]30m. Another great pitch taking a direct line up the wall passing the break of The Smile. Start 4m right of the boulder at the start of Diamond Smiles. Photo on page 137. 30m. Move up the wall to a good nut-placement in a pocket at 4m and continue to the wide break of The Smile. Move left and follow a faint line of weakness rightwards up the vertical wall to another diagonal break. Move left along the break to a brown stained widening of the break and take the left leading crack above it to the top. © ROCKFAX
FA. M. Hardwicke 15.5.86 15/May/1986

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Photo: Gurning hard on Crooked Mile (E4 6a) © Sue Hazel
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This climb is in 45 logbooks, and on 7 wishlists.

Hidden - 2nd rpt - 20/Sep/12

Climbed the smile to the break so not a proper ascent. Good fun.
eddy-on-the-rocks - Lead O/S - 31/Aug/12 with ollie

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 28/Jun/12

Ramon Marin - Lead O/S - 17/Jun/12 with ciaran tracey

nick arding - Lead β - 25/May/12 with ben bradford

today's warm up was probably the hardest trad route I've attempted
Jim Brooke - 2nd dnf - 12/May/12 with Pip, Rich

Pippa - Lead O/S - 12/May/12 with Jim Brooke, Richard

Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/May/12

Pete Graham - 2nd - 26/Feb/12 with Ben Silvestre

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - Lead O/S - 17/Oct/11

Not E4!
Bristoldave - Lead O/S - 01/Sep/11 with FlyingSaucerAttack

soph - Lead O/S - Sep/11 with Helena Robinson

JRae - 2nd O/S - 30/Aug/11 with M Watson

Hidden - 2nd - Aug/11

dannyboy83 - Lead O/S - 29/Jul/11 with Dad

chris j - 2nd rpt - 03/Jul/11 with Ben Bradford

Neil Adams - Lead O/S - 27/May/11 with Jim Higgins

Slightly harder than Diamond Smile, though I think the guidebook grade of E3 5C is still fair.
jameshiggins - 2nd O/S - 27/May/11 with Neil Adams

ellis - Lead O/S - 29/Apr/11 with Alan Willoner, Tom Bridgeland

pezzerrr - Lead O/S - 17/Apr/11

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

mwatson - 2011

Started up Diamond Smile to first break, so only E3 for me.
chris j - Lead rpt - 27/Sep/10 with Ben Bradford

Bold start, then a wicked tehnical upper wall. Felt E4 compared to break on through.
Alex Mason - Lead O/S - 26/Jul/10 with Mikey G

Toby Dunn - Lead - 14/Apr/09 with Alex Hughes

Toby Dunn - 2nd - 04/Apr/09 with Alex Hughes

Hidden - Lead O/S - Apr/09

sara n - TR - 10/Oct/08 with Nev

Looks improbable but it's all there and not hard for the grade.
Kafoozalem - 2nd O/S - 24/Jul/08 with Sue Hazel

Steve Crowe - Lead O/S - 17/Sep/07 with KM

Hidden - Lead O/S - 15/Sep/07

Hidden - Lead O/S - 03/Sep/07

Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Aug/07

With a 6 limpets on a rock in my shoe on my harness. Five minutes or so in a hot oven and their weight was well worth it for their taste.
Paz - 2nd β - 27/Aug/07 with AB

Richard White - Lead O/S - 02/Aug/07 with Toby

ecowaller - 2007

Hidden - 2007

westaway - Lead O/S - 2005

tuftynick - Lead O/S - 2005

Mark Kemball - Lead - 30/Sep/04 with Lee Bartrop

cornishben - 2nd O/S - Aug/04 with Mike Raine

Hidden - Lead O/S - 16/Aug/97

Roget - Lead O/S - 16/Jun/97

Hidden - Lead O/S - 1994

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
RFWilkie, Ropeboy, Ian Jones, Rowansb, Hidden, Hidden, pmot
Voting
Total votes cast 46
hard E50 of 15
E50 of 15
easy E50 of 15
hard E40 of 15
E42 of 15
easy E45 of 15
hard E38 of 15
E30 of 15
easy E30 of 15
hard 6b0 of 15
6b0 of 15
easy 6b0 of 15
hard 6a0 of 15
6a0 of 15
easy 6a10 of 15
hard 5c5 of 15
5c0 of 15
easy 5c0 of 15
3 Stars14 of 16
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Style of ascent

Lead28 of 45 (62.2%)
Followed12 of 45 (26.7%)
Toproped1 of 45 (2.2%)
Unknown4 of 45 (8.9%)

'Climbed'10 of 45 (22.2%)
clean O/S29 of 45 (64.4%)
clean β2 of 45 (4.4%)
clean rpt3 of 45 (6.7%)
dnf1 of 45 (2.2%)