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Needle Arete E3 6a

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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 65 logbooks, and on 4 wishlists.

Goose4 - Lead O/S - 23/Sep/12

mshorter - Lead O/S - 04/Aug/12 with erika

nick bamber - Lead - 15/Jul/12 with mike entwistle

Hidden - Lead O/S - 04/Jun/12

Finally manned up leading this at the end of an epic day out.
MarkRoe - Lead rpt - 26/Mar/12 with Tom Keaveny

Tom Keaveny - Lead O/S - 25/Feb/12 with mfisher

Smithy Smith - TR RP - 28/Sep/11 with Mark Roe

MarkRoe - TR O/S - 28/Sep/11 with Smithy

Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Jul/11

NiccyMac - 2nd - 27/Jul/11

GPN - Lead O/S - 26/Jul/11

dodfoster - Lead O/S - 05/Jul/11 with rich coulson

barn doored
ritid - 2nd dnf - 05/Jul/11 with george foster

Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/Jul/11

Nick Sillem - Lead O/S - 2011

Need to go back and do this myself. I liked this
SGD - 2nd - 15/Oct/10 with Tom Relf

Hidden - Oct/10

darlolad - 2nd O/S - 09/Sep/10

probably e2,5c
tim newton - Lead O/S - 08/Sep/10 with ben hiles

Hidden - Lead RP - 27/Aug/10

Spence22 - Lead O/S - 21/Aug/10

ollyroberts - 2nd - 21/May/10 with Sam

Ben1983 - Lead O/S - 09/May/10

backed off, still jibbery after falling off doberman
tomhull - Lead dnf - 23/Apr/10 with Liam Lonsdale

Hidden - Lead O/S - 16/Apr/10

Hidden - 2nd - 17/Oct/09

Hidden - Lead rpt - 17/Oct/09

first e3, easier than expected, great climbing
tomhull - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/09 with matt harris

Andrew1 - Lead - 03/Jun/09 with Doug

spam - Solo O/S - 18/Mar/09 with Liam Taylor

Hidden - TR - Mar/09

esther - Lead - Mar/09

oliverthomp - Lead - 27/Sep/08 with Richard Atkinson

cherad - 2nd dog - 27/Sep/08 with oliver thompson

lukehunt - Lead β - 24/Aug/08 with francocookson

A good problem but with only one 5c/6a move and this being well protected it could be E2 5c/6a.
Dave Warburton - Lead O/S - 24/Aug/08 with Franco, Luke, Rob and Lotte

Franco Cookson OLD - Lead O/S - 24/Aug/08 with Luke Hunt

OffshoreAndy - 2nd - 23/Aug/08 with Works Frasier

robert10507 - Lead O/S - 26/Jul/08 with Stu

Hidden - TR - 26/Jul/08

davis.pete - Lead RP - 05/May/08 with Jon Hawes

E1 5c
dannyboy83 - Solo O/S - 05/May/08 with Dave Moir

ioboy - 2nd - 03/May/08

Brown - Lead RP - 09/Feb/08 with Jasmine

Hidden - Lead - 2008

Wil Treasure - 2nd - 2008 with Dunc

Paz - 2nd β - 21/Oct/07 with JS2, MH2

Stephen Roberts - TR O/S - 27/Aug/07 with Les Jennings

Easy moves for 6a, but pretty bold moving up from the peg. Got a reasonable micro-wire in to protect the last few moves.
Chad123 - AltLd O/S - 15/Jul/07 with Andy Lole

John Kettle - 2nd - 05/Jun/07

Gets E3 6a but it can't be cos I can't climb 6a. Felt about E1 5b.
mattbaird - Lead O/S - 01/Jun/07

Hidden - 2nd - 25/May/07

Hidden - Lead - 23/May/07

John Kettle - Lead O/S - 05/May/07

Hidden - 2007

bfreeman - Lead O/S - Aug/06

ewen - Lead O/S - Jun/06 with hal

Pete Graham - TR - 2006 with Ted Rogers

Hidden - Lead O/S - Oct/05

Hidden - Lead O/S - 28/Oct/03

Hidden - Lead - 26/Mar/02

Hidden - Lead O/S - 16/Jul/00

Bob - 2nd - 10/Jun/00 with Steve Brock

PeteCheung - 2nd - 1998 with Dave Birkett

Dave Musgrove Jnr - Solo - 13/Aug/96 with Dave Birkett

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
Hidden, hfac, Hidden, muzz44

Voting
Total votes cast 41
hard E40 of 14
E40 of 14
easy E40 of 14
hard E30 of 14
E38 of 14
easy E32 of 14
hard E24 of 14
E20 of 14
easy E20 of 14
hard 6b0 of 14
6b0 of 14
easy 6b0 of 14
hard 6a0 of 14
6a4 of 14
easy 6a5 of 14
hard 5c5 of 14
5c0 of 14
easy 5c0 of 14
3 Stars4 of 13
2 Stars6 of 13
1 Star3 of 13
0 Stars0 of 13
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Style of ascent

Soloed3 of 65 (4.6%)
Lead38 of 65 (58.5%)
Followed15 of 65 (23.1%)
Toproped6 of 65 (9.2%)
Alt Leads1 of 65 (1.5%)
Unknown2 of 65 (3.1%)

'Climbed'24 of 65 (36.9%)
clean O/S30 of 65 (46.2%)
clean β2 of 65 (3.1%)
clean rpt2 of 65 (3.1%)
clean RP4 of 65 (6.2%)
dogged1 of 65 (1.5%)
dnf2 of 65 (3.1%)