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Trembling Wall VS 5a

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[The jamming crux on Trembling Wall, 2 kb]Start about 20 feet right of Oak Tree Zig Zag at the break in the right hand end of the low over hang. Use the high flake to gain the slab and step left to the rounded cracks running slightly R to L. Follow these to the over lap moving right to exit, above the dead tree.
Iain Peters, Dave Garner 1974

Photo: The jamming crux on Trembling Wall © BelayBunney
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Starting at OTZ - slipped on the slab
timreynolds - 2nd - 15/May/13 with chris ebbutt, Sarah Welsh

chris ebbutt - Lead - 15/May/13 with Sarah Welsh, Tim

Cheese Monkey - 2nd O/S - 27/Oct/12 with Iain

A great little climb.It took me a while to work out where it went as the guide book description is odd! I think it starts at the RH end of the slab at a slight break in the overhang at a diagonally downwards pointing flake type thing. I moved up the obvious R to L crack and followed this passing a bush thing and a (not dead) tree. Above the tree you can place high gear in the continuation of the crack you've climbed. (It looks like some people exit above and very slightly right of this tree pulling on vegetation - it looked horrible!). Then I moved back down to a horizontal break for feet, and stepped L. You are now below the short (but intense for the grade) jamming crack that takes you through the mini-roof (this is the one on the crag photo). The climb gets very dirty here, so my guess is that not many people make it through the jamming! Above the crack place gear and pull up and right on more dirty rock and grass holds to an inset rock shelf thing. A sling around the tree will protect your second as they move onto the belay.
andy_pemberton - Lead - 23/May/12 with Sarah Massey, Steve Gibson

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

Damn crux defeated me on lead again! Need to work on my jamming! I blame the biblical swarm of midges...
BelayBunney - Lead dnf - 16/Aug/11 with Francois

mark schramm - Lead O/S - 27/Jul/11

chris ebbutt - Lead - 27/Jul/11 with Emma

Through the crack for the first time, VS - don't make me laugh!
timreynolds - 2nd - 27/Jul/11

Hidden - 2nd - 27/Jul/11

Totally sandbagged by this one, vs? Really? nice climbing to the overhang til I fell, horrendous top out though, chickened out so didn't finish...
Joby - Lead dnf - 23/Jul/11 with John Martin

timreynolds - Lead - 15/Jul/11

Lead up to the overhang, then backed off (again!) as couldn't get through. Ben then climbed up my gear and managed to jam his way up through the crack (good effort Ben!). I followed, but my jamming is a bit weak so sat in. Got it in the end though (although jam was very painful)! Interesting route, but need to work on my jamming skills!
BelayBunney - AltLd dog - 14/Jul/11 with Ben Devonish

Went right - bottled the jamming crack. Seems a hard move for VS.
Will Cat - Lead dnf - 11/Jun/11 with Adelle

Started left, under the overhang, which I think bumps it up to at least HVS.
Chris Ellyatt - Lead O/S - 25/Apr/11 with Owen Jeffries

Owen Jefferies - 2nd dog - 25/Apr/11 with Chris Ellyatt

Its very sustained for a VS with every move feeling like 5a, more like HVS. Needs more traffic to clean it up a bit. But still worth 2 stars
Dawlish - Lead O/S - 17/Mar/11 with gareth

Grey and misty, just the one climb. Oh, the flies.
MarcT - 2nd dog - Oct/10 with Tim, Kerrie Mott, Nicky Mott

Hidden - Lead O/S - 11/Aug/10

Great line, but very hard route. Moving up to the jamming crack is hard and getting through it is neigh on impossible (for me!) - much respect to Chris who led the route. Need to learn to jam better
Chaman - 2nd dog - 02/Jun/10 with Chris Ebbutt

Not sure if I was on route (or even on the right route?!), but could not do the move over/through the roof (to the left of the tree stump and holly tree).
Phil79 - Lead dnf - 16/Aug/09 with Baz

Hidden - Lead - 12/Apr/09

mad matt - 2nd O/S - 30/Aug/08

timreynolds - Lead - 30/Aug/08 with Matt Reynolds

2535rob - TR - 07/Nov/07

got to overhang and the crack was green ,unable to jam , too dirty.
misterb - Lead dnf - 24/Jul/07 with dave

climber sim - 2007

Hidden - Lead O/S - 28/Jun/05

Mark Kemball - 2nd - 13/May/00 with Rob Galley

Hidden - Lead - 30/Aug/96

ellie macpherson - Lead - May/94 with Bob Smith

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Style of ascent

Lead19 of 31 (61.3%)
Followed9 of 31 (29.0%)
Toproped1 of 31 (3.2%)
Alt Leads1 of 31 (3.2%)
Unknown1 of 31 (3.2%)

'Climbed'14 of 31 (45.2%)
clean O/S8 of 31 (25.8%)
dogged4 of 31 (12.9%)
dnf5 of 31 (16.1%)