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Great Crack*** HVS 5a

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[Great Crack, Dukes Quarry, Whatstandwell, 3 kb]Obvious tall crack on the main wall. Start is often slippery.

Ticklists: ROCKFAX Eastern Grit: Top 50, Steve Ashton's 100 Classic Gritstone Climbs, Froggatt to Black Rocks (BMC) - The Grade List, Peak Gritstone S-HVS **+.

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This climb is in 59 logbooks, and on 23 wishlists.

Greasy at the bottom both in the crack and on the face. Found this bit quite tough
harold walmsley - Lead O/S - 20/Mar/12 with Colin Struthers

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 16/Oct/11

Last minute idea on the last day of the Indian Summer. V hot & humid, bottom 4M a bit greasy but then awesome climbing all the way to the top. Possibly the best route this year!
marcoleptic - Lead O/S - 03/Oct/11 with Tommo

Hidden - Lead β - 07/Aug/11

Really hard start. Struggled took an hour and half. Colin started the second but gave up after a few minutes. Rob seconded it in just over 5 minutes.
Ultimo Dyno Boy - Lead dog - 22/Jul/11 with Collin, Rob

Climbed with DHcol and Ultimo Dyno Boy who this time took the sharp end, the start was a little damp with not a lot of fiction hence it seemed like a life time for him to get more than 10 feet off the ground, anyway one and a half hours later it was time for DHcol to clean the route, A unenthusiastic attempt at the start and it was back to the ground, complaining “my hands are cold, my hands are COLD” wot it’s the middle of summer?
CrashMat Rob - 2nd β - 22/Jul/11 with Glynn, Colin

Climbed in a thunderstorm. Was down this way and not likely to drive down for one route so thought I better just man up. Even though it was soaking, it made the starting moves a bit trickier. After that, jugs (jams) away.
akhughes - Lead O/S - 08/Jun/11 with Emma Hughes

jtree03 - Lead - 14/May/11 with dazza, Tony, Brother Al

Excellent route, just wish the whole wall was moved to Millstone. Third visit to do it, dry as a bone!
gordonday - Lead O/S - 04/May/11 with Jack

Dirty and chock-full of esoteric WIN! Really glad to finally get this done. =o)
Mr. K - Lead O/S - 04/May/11 with Pete Dollman

jwpil - 2nd O/S - 04/May/11 with Gordon

Not been doing Trad Stuff for a while so this one was a good one to get me head round leading again. you can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxhmtc2zWE
CrashMat Rob - Lead O/S - 02/May/11 with Nicky, Colin

Wow an epic climb for me fell a couple of meters from the start and ended up back on the ground, had a rest then a great battle to get my Lard up it :-) glad I did it tho, it's a stunning line. Nice and dry when we got there.
Dhcol - 2nd dog - 02/May/11 with Niky Willers, Rob Marshall

Definitely a great crack! Hand jams and bomber gear all the way. Admittedly it was uncommonly dry and clean.
adam carless - Lead O/S - 01/May/11 with victim of mathematics

Brilliant. In perfect condition at the moment. Almost every hold is a perfect jam. Mmm.
victim of mathematics - Lead O/S - 01/May/11 with Adam

To retreive Adam's gear.
victim of mathematics - 2nd rpt - 01/May/11 with Adam

bottom section was greasy despite over two weeks of dry weather!
migs493 - 2nd β - 25/Apr/11 with LO

Superb! In great condition due to dry weather. Everybody should do this climb,up there with the best HVS's in the country, must be onsighted to get full impact.
lozowen - Lead O/S - 25/Apr/11

Hidden - Lead rpt - 23/Apr/11

Belay off helpful guy at the crag
Boy - Lead - 23/Apr/11

The damp and greeness made this really hard work and very tenuous.
Jonathan Hall - Lead - 10/Apr/11 with Mark Williams

disturbed_one51 - 2nd - 10/Apr/11 with Wee man

Hidden - Lead - 03/Apr/11

great route, although fairly damp today. lots of jamming.
Dan Lane - 2nd O/S - 29/Oct/10 with Martin Kocsis

Fantastic climb, Hard start, took a bit of working out as it was very slimy slipery to start with. Once past that crux, it was jamming all the way with very nice moves and small ledges just where you want them. Very glad I went out of my way to Duke's Quarry for this climb.
frume - Lead O/S - 01/Sep/10 with Andy Edwards

stephenhartley - 2nd - 02/Aug/10 with Burns

perfect jamming crack! jim slipped and nearly ripped his arm off! can be slippy low down
spidey - Lead O/S - 11/Jul/10 with Jimmy

helios - 2nd - 10/Jul/10

Hidden - Lead O/S - 10/Jul/10

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2010

EXCELLENT the best jaming route in the peak??
Graeme Hammond - Lead O/S - 03/Oct/09 with Paul

Hidden - Lead - 27/Sep/09

Helen Gibson - 2nd - 24/Sep/09 with Paul

Hidden - 2nd dnf - 13/Sep/09

cem - Lead O/S - 13/Sep/09 with Jenny Andexer, Mark O'Neill, Paul Bolton

greenclimb - Lead O/S - 01/Jul/09 with sarah

Hidden - Lead - 22/Jun/09

Hidden - Lead O/S - 24/Apr/09

daveagriff - Lead - 2008

clintos - Lead - 19/Apr/07 with jonny green

A must do, superb jams and moves above the slippery start
Sankey - 2nd O/S - 08/Oct/06 with Reuben

billiant jamming crack
Sam and will - Lead O/S - 18/May/05 with Anthony Bennett

Peakology - Lead O/S - 2003 with cat

Chalky Cat - 2nd O/S - 2003 with Dom

Dave Bond - Lead O/S - 12/Jul/01 with Adrian Whitehall

A great, great route!! Did this in the morning, followed by Original Route (High Tor) in the afternoon. A superb day!
Rog Wilko - Lead - Jun/99 with Adrian Perkin

Roget - Lead O/S - 07/Sep/97 with jon

Budge - Lead rpt - 17/Apr/97 with Mike Oates

nickcanute - Lead O/S - 1997

Budge - Lead dog - Aug/96 with Brian Ottewell

Hidden - Lead - 28/Aug/94

good route, crap crag
stevieb - 2nd O/S - 30/Jul/94 with Andy Phillips

charlesmfrench - 2nd O/S - 05/Sep/91

Hidden - 1987

sadams - 2nd - 04/May/86 with Mark Bonham

Chris Ellis - Lead O/S - 07/Sep/85 with Andy Barker

Hidden - Lead O/S - 1985

mark-abz - 2nd - Jul/82 with Brian W

Chris Craggs - Lead - 1980

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Voting
Total votes cast 55
hard E10 of 19
E10 of 19
easy E10 of 19
hard HVS0 of 19
HVS13 of 19
easy HVS5 of 19
hard VS1 of 19
VS0 of 19
easy VS0 of 19
hard 5b0 of 19
5b0 of 19
easy 5b0 of 19
hard 5a1 of 19
5a17 of 19
easy 5a1 of 19
hard 4c0 of 19
4c0 of 19
easy 4c0 of 19
3 Stars15 of 17
2 Stars1 of 17
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Style of ascent

Lead40 of 59 (67.8%)
Followed18 of 59 (30.5%)
Unknown1 of 59 (1.7%)

'Climbed'18 of 59 (30.5%)
clean O/S31 of 59 (52.5%)
clean β3 of 59 (5.1%)
clean rpt3 of 59 (5.1%)
dogged3 of 59 (5.1%)
dnf1 of 59 (1.7%)