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Banana Wall* E3 6a

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[Banana Wall, 3 kb]12m. Climb the small wall right of centre using undercuts (good Friend) and poor holds to reach easier ground by a long stretch. Finish rapidly up the final wall. © ROCKFAX
FA. Don Barr 1977

Ticklists: ROCKFAX Eastern Grit: Top 500.

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This climb is in 50 logbooks, and on 7 wishlists.

Stoney Boy - Lead β - 23/May/13

Hidden - TR dog - 13/Mar/13

Matt Cooke - Lead O/S - 01/Sep/12 with Rosh

Hmm; second disappointment - another poor choice for a short guy. Fidel made the move after a rest on the rope, and finished the route.
joemallia - 2nd dnf - 06/May/12 with Katy Whittaker, Fidel Sciamanna

On Liam's gear
mark20 - Lead β - 24/Feb/12

liam - Lead O/S - 24/Feb/12 with Mark R

Nick Sillem - Lead O/S - 2012

Hidden - 2nd dog - 29/Oct/11

wolverine - Lead O/S - 10/Jul/11 with Sarah Marks

Hidden - Lead β - 10/Apr/11

pie_eater_pete - Lead - 10/Apr/11

john lynch - Lead O/S - 02/Apr/11 with Ed Austin, Lewis Andrew

disturbed_one51 - 2nd - 02/Apr/11 with Wee man

Felt like a pretty tough move, sucks to be short for this one! There is a reasonable small slider placement to be found as well...
Jonathan Hall - Lead O/S - 02/Apr/11 with Mark Williams

Led with first two bits of gear already in.
Ben1983 - Lead β - 19/Mar/11

Hidden - Lead β - 17/Apr/10

LukeP LCC - TR - 11/Apr/10 with pete pounds

stephenhartley - 2nd - 2010 with Burns

One try then cleaned it. Poor protection and very bold top out
simon1965 - TR dog - 29/Aug/09 with peakdj

Hidden - TR dog - 21/Jun/09

liamoloughlin - Lead O/S - 26/Apr/09

Shauna - 2nd O/S - 18/Apr/09 with Jules

harvie - Lead β - 25/Feb/09

Great route. Real bottle tester after the crux move.
robbo - Lead RP - 19/Nov/08 with Spencer

Pete Graham - Lead O/S - 19/Oct/08 with Luke Porter

Well should have bought the old guide book for the E4 tick. One move wonder but really ebjoyed it, lockign down the crimper and delicately rocking up to latch flatty with my left from high footer -awesome. Unsure it is worth only E2, think E3 is fair.
mattyork2 - Lead β - 01/May/08 with Steve Aherne

HamishD - TR O/S - 07/Oct/07

martin48 - Lead dnf - 25/Sep/07 with dave

Brian Rodgers - Lead RP - 15/Sep/07 with Nick Hobbs

Hidden - Solo O/S - 10/May/07

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2007

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2007

Brown - Lead O/S - 24/Mar/06 with Henry

chrishedgehog - TR O/S - 16/Mar/06 with Dave from D.R.

Hidden - Lead rpt - 03/Aug/05

Hidden - 2nd - 18/May/05

first e4 quite a rubbish route really but good to do an E4 i hadnt even done e2 when i did this says a lot really! but did fall off the crux but straight bk on and did it
Alex Mason - Lead - Mar/05 with tony holdsworth

Stone Muppet - TR O/S - 2005

enjoyed this route. All crux beta unwillingly 'prized' from alex. first 'E4', though easier than all the 'proper' E3's i've done
Belier - Lead β - 2005 with Alex Mason

Iggy_B - Lead O/S - 2005 with Simon Troop

adi bryant - Lead O/S - 2005

My first ever E4 :) soft for the grade though. I abseiled down the line first to check out the obvious gear placement - of course I wish I hadn't now and tried to onsight it instead, but seeing that the placement was solid gave me the confidence to get on it...
Nick Smith - UKC - Lead β - Sep/03 with Penny Allchin

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

Pretty easy for E4!
Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH - Lead β - 15/Jan/03 with John Nightingale

tlr - Solo O/S - 2000

tuftynick - Lead - 2000

Hidden - Solo O/S - Oct/99

Daniel Armitage - Lead RP - 10/Sep/99

Jon Read - Lead O/S - Aug/99 with Dave Edmunds

Tom V - 1980

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
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Voting
Total votes cast 105
hard E40 of 36
E40 of 36
easy E40 of 36
hard E30 of 36
E313 of 36
easy E36 of 36
hard E217 of 36
E20 of 36
easy E20 of 36
hard 6b0 of 36
6b0 of 36
easy 6b0 of 36
hard 6a0 of 36
6a22 of 36
easy 6a8 of 36
hard 5c6 of 36
5c0 of 36
easy 5c0 of 36
3 Stars0 of 33
2 Stars21 of 33
1 Star10 of 33
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Style of ascent

Soloed3 of 50 (6.0%)
Lead33 of 50 (66.0%)
Followed6 of 50 (12.0%)
Toproped7 of 50 (14.0%)
Unknown1 of 50 (2.0%)

'Climbed'8 of 50 (16.0%)
clean O/S22 of 50 (44.0%)
clean β10 of 50 (20.0%)
clean rpt1 of 50 (2.0%)
clean RP3 of 50 (6.0%)
dogged4 of 50 (8.0%)
dnf2 of 50 (4.0%)