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Eliminate 'C'** VS 4c

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[Luke on Eliminate 'C', Dow Crag, Lake District, England, 3 kb]No description has been contributed for this climb.

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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 68 logbooks, and on 6 wishlists.

carl_123 - AltLd O/S - 07/Oct/12

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 07/Oct/12

simeclimb68 - Lead O/S - 11/Aug/12 with John Chiverton

I'm not sure we followed the right line at all. Lou Led P1, Chris led P2.
stuaart - AltLd O/S - 11/Aug/12 with Louise Atkin, Chris Burn

think we went off route - bit rubbish if not
louby - AltLd - 11/Aug/12 with Stuart Reeves, Chris Burn

Approach pitch (P1 of intermediate Gully) was nasty and we did on the right instead. Me P1 & P3. Colin P2. P1 'greasy crack' was OK providing you just used it for gear and kept yer fingers out. the step onto the arete was bold and unprotected. P3 traverse to the spike delightful and the holds then excellent. protection sparse. Fantastic Route. Very highly recommended.
stratandrew - AltLd O/S - 25/Mar/12 with Colin Maddison

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 04/May/11

Pitches 1 & 2 as one
garburn - AltLd O/S - 04/May/11 with Dave Fisher

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 22/Apr/11

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 22/Apr/11

Hidden - Lead O/S - 19/Jun/10

Escaped off last pitch due to Migrane/Sunstroke.
jwpil - AltLd O/S - 19/Jun/10 with Mat

Soloed first pitch. Watching the sling lift off the spike as Stewart led pitch three was an interesting moment, glad he didn't fall there!
The Ivanator - AltLd O/S - 31/May/10 with Stewart

Entertaining!
Jim Walton - AltLd O/S - 30/May/10 with Steve Pugh

KevB - AltLd O/S - 25/May/10 with Tony P

AWESOME climb! (for the main pitch - pitch 3 I think, up the arete). Easily one of the best VS's I've ever done. Led the two 4c pitches. Luke did the heinous pitch 1 of Intermediate Gully (I think it's called). It's got no gear so it's a solo - well done to that man! (the pitch can be protected with a big enough cam, mind)
Andy S - AltLd O/S - 24/May/10 with Luke H

Hidden - 2nd - 22/May/10

Excellent climb. Accidentally did the third pitch of Charmer (HVS 5a). Downclimbed that and then did the proper 3rd pitch!
GPN - Lead O/S - 22/May/10 with Annette

Led 1st and 2nd pitches together.
Adi Hooper - AltLd - 24/Apr/10 with Roger Ward

Hidden - AltLd - Apr/10

Hidden - 2010

Adam1973 - AltLd O/S - 20/Sep/09 with Alex

Led P2, which was easy climbing but with virtually no gear. Pitch 3 was fantastic!
CathS - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/09 with Keith Waddell

P1 & 3. Greasy start but soon improves. Messed up protection on P3 & had a big runout.
KeithW - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/09 with Cath Sanders

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

goi.ashmore - AltLd O/S - 31/May/09 with Greg

P3 felt very bold above the loose spike. Also, notice that the guidebook says "start from the top of P1 of intermediate gully", not "climb P1 of intermediate gully". If you're not good at traditional technique then that's probably the hardest part!
jonny taylor - AltLd O/S - 30/May/09 with Andy B

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 30/May/09

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 26/Apr/09

Good route which does not get much traffic. Fantastic last pitch.
moose ridd - AltLd - 26/Apr/09 with M.Sadler

Seymore Butt - 2009

Great!!!!
Conan - AltLd O/S - 23/Aug/08 with Chris Michalak

Hidden - AltLd - 24/Jul/08

mental laybacking, good experience. On the limit of being in control really.
Franco Cookson OLD - Solo O/S - 15/Jun/08 with Ian Jackson

jimdanson - 11/May/08 with dan middleton

Hidden - 2008

wadey1973 - Lead - 10/Jun/07 with Janet Wilkinson

Hidden - AltLd rpt - 26/May/07

Hidden - AltLd - 21/Apr/07

Hidden - AltLd - 16/Jul/06

ChrisJD - AltLd - 16/Jul/06 with rc

An excellent and under-rated route. Pity you can escape the final traverse pitch via C Ordinary otherwise it'd easily merit ***
Peter Metcalfe - Lead - 02/Jul/06 with Alan Maines

jimdanson - AltLd O/S - 29/Apr/06 with Meg Ledbury

jim robertson - 2006

Gman - AltLd O/S - Jun/05 with Steve

Hidden - AltLd - 04/Aug/04

biggianthead - 15/Jun/03 with HT

John Brayshaw - AltLd O/S - 01/Jun/03 with Chris Heald

danm - AltLd - 2003

Hidden - AltLd - 13/Jul/02

Hidden - AltLd - 07/Jul/02

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Apr/02

arose - AltLd - Mar/01 with Tom Woodcock

Pete Graham - 2nd - 2001 with Rick Graham

Hidden - Lead - 01/May/99

Hidden - Lead O/S - Aug/93

An excellent climb. The crux is getting up to the start of the first pitch (Intermediate Gully)!
Rog Wilko - AltLd - Jun/92 with Tony Tokarski

nige - AltLd - Jul/90 with sven rowan

babymoac - AltLd - 19/May/90 with MTW

Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/May/90

DaveHo - Lead O/S - 1990

Dave Musgrove - Solo O/S - 24/May/89

excellent
lithos - Lead - 1989

Hammy - AltLd - 10/May/87 with Steve Grice

Paula Hamilton-Gibson - AltLd O/S - 1980 with Alan Walmsley

greenbuoy - AltLd - Sep/76

Barry did pitch 1, I did pitch 3 and pich 2 got linked in with one or other
David Smith - AltLd - 1975 with Barry Clark

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Voting
Total votes cast 51
hard HVS0 of 17
HVS0 of 17
easy HVS0 of 17
hard VS9 of 17
VS7 of 17
easy VS1 of 17
hard HS0 of 17
HS0 of 17
easy HS0 of 17
hard 5a0 of 17
5a0 of 17
easy 5a0 of 17
hard 4c5 of 17
4c12 of 17
easy 4c0 of 17
hard 4b0 of 17
4b0 of 17
easy 4b0 of 17
3 Stars5 of 17
2 Stars11 of 17
1 Star1 of 17
0 Stars0 of 17
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Style of ascent

Soloed2 of 68 (2.9%)
Lead10 of 68 (14.7%)
Followed2 of 68 (2.9%)
Alt Leads47 of 68 (69.1%)
Unknown7 of 68 (10.3%)

'Climbed'32 of 68 (47.1%)
clean O/S35 of 68 (51.5%)
clean rpt1 of 68 (1.5%)