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Charming Crack** E2 5c

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[An excellent struggle, well worth it, 2 kb]9m. The shady, leaning jamming crack is a little gem. As to the grade - one of the last major Yorkshire sandbags gets its come-uppance, perhaps? © ROCKFAX

Ticklists: Gritstone's finest gruesome and damaging struggles, Tom Randall's Classic Hand cracks.

Photo: An excellent struggle, well worth it © petegunn
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This climb is in 32 logbooks, and on 20 wishlists.

andi turner - 2013

petegunn - Lead - 02/Dec/12 with Tom, Davina

Hidden - 2nd dog - 02/Dec/12

Top a bit green and damp.
petegunn - Lead - 07/Oct/12 with Davina

stonemonkey159 - Lead O/S - 20/May/12

bigpapparen - 2nd dog - Apr/12 with matt harle

Hidden - Lead dnf - 23/Jul/11

Bomber jams to hidden holds. Great jams, good fun.
Dave Warburton - Lead dog - 30/Oct/10 with Ewan

Hidden - Lead - 24/Jul/10

colkurtz - 2nd - 24/Jul/10 with Adam, Robb

Another spanking :-(
petellis - Lead dnf - 05/Jul/10 with Cleric James Koran

Hidden - 04/Jul/10

Utter spanking dealt out by a Joe Brown classic. Must come back for more punishment and with more time available.
petellis - Lead dnf - 02/Jun/10 with mattyork2

Desperate!
mattyork2 - Lead dog - 02/Jun/10 with Pete Ellis

joe brown is hard as! fell off about three times needless to say i thought it was hard.
80s pete - Lead dog - 04/Oct/09 with jas wood

Bloodied hands! Superb
petegunn - Lead - 10/May/09 with Steve, Cas, Tom, Davina

didn't get off the ground, so the onsight is still there at least. Ouch.
Quiddity - Lead dnf - 25/Aug/08 with Hazel

Mostly aid tactics to get up in the end
Dan 85 - Lead dog - 17/Jun/08 with Phil

Fantastic route. The rockfax grade of e2 5c seems about right.
joe larner - Lead O/S - 21/May/08

don't place gear in the jam's!!clean next time?
mikekeswick - Lead dog - 18/May/08 with gill

Brown - Lead dog - 22/Sep/07 with Tom Bell

7 to 8 goes to do the first half and get gear in. 4 goes and falls for top half. Didn't pul on gear though :-)
MikeLeeds - Lead dog - 16/Sep/07 with Matt Hopkinson

Hidden - Lead - 2006

shoulders - Lead - 04/May/02 with mart, dai

Hidden - 2nd - 16/Jul/98

sadams - Lead dnf - 20/Sep/97 with Team Midlands

rob.grafton - Lead - 07/Jul/92 with Bruce

craig h - Lead - Oct/91

One of Joe Brown's forays into Yorkshire. Took 3 visits to crack this one but knowing where the hidden hold is helps - I didn't! My guide book has it as E1 5b - felt more like 6a.
allan white - Lead dog - 12/Aug/91 with joh kerrison

ian caton - Lead - 1991 with Matt

Hidden - Lead - 12/May/79

Hidden - Solo O/S - 1976

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Style of ascent

Soloed1 of 32 (3.1%)
Lead25 of 32 (78.1%)
Followed4 of 32 (12.5%)
Unknown2 of 32 (6.2%)

'Climbed'14 of 32 (43.8%)
clean O/S3 of 32 (9.4%)
dogged10 of 32 (31.2%)
dnf5 of 32 (15.6%)