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Ring Ouzels are reported to be nesting on Flying Buttress. Please avoid this and adjacent routes.

from 14/06/2023 to 01/07/2023

Adders are frequently seen around Curbar. They are often very well camoflaged so it's worth keeping an eye out when moving into new areas, picking up kit etc as a bite, although not life threatening to most healthy adults can still be nasty.

Ticks are abundant due to a large population of red deer. take care, particularly if passing through bracken below the crag.

12m.

Rockfax Description
A Curbar rarity - as in not too tough at the grade. Twin cracks lead past blocks to steeper flaky cracks that are best tackled rapidly. Protection is good and pressing on is the best idea. © Rockfax

FA. Joe Brown 1950.

Ticklists

ROCKFAX Eastern Grit (2006): Top 500 , Steve Ashton's 100 Classic Gritstone Climbs , Eastern Grit Jamming , Froggatt to Black Rocks (BMC) - The Grade List , Peak Gritstone S-HVS **+ , 'Soft' Peak HVSs. , Ultimate HVS ticklist , Top 50 Peak Cracks , The Froggatt to Black Rocks 3 Star Pilgrimage , Definitive *** Peak Grit , Eastern Grit 2 star plus (HVS/VS/HS) , Joe Brown Curbar Routes , An attempt at a definitive list of Joe Brown's FA/FFA in the Peak District , Wired Peak District Grit Graded List , Wired Peak District Grit (2020) *** List , Big trad grit list , Ultimate List of Peak District Crack Climbs , Peak District Gritstone: Graham Hoey's Best Routes for Moving on to E1 , Eastern Grit Crack School - Part 2 , Eastern Grit 2015 - Top 500 HVS , Climber's Club Jamfest List Meet , 2022 Rockfax Eastern Grit Graded List , *** HVS on Peak Gritstone

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User Date Notes
ChossChampion 17 Sep, 2023 Show βeta
βeta: No really hard moves but very hard to not get boxed out of your mind placing gear, just built a bombshelter at the bottom of the big crack and then ran it out to the top. Quite hight dependant, 5.9 managed to just about reach everything but 5.4 really struggled
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βeta: No really hard moves but very hard to not get boxed out of your mind placing gear, just built a bombshelter at the bottom of the big crack and then ran it out to the top. Quite hight dependant, 5.9 managed to just about reach everything but 5.4 really struggled
MNA123 23 Apr, 2007 Show βeta
βeta: Def not low in grade, moves are never that hard but the steep pumpy upper section is quite difficult simply because stopping to place gear would probably result in a fall. Tried not to think about how low my gear was as i wrestled with the upper crack :-)
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βeta: Def not low in grade, moves are never that hard but the steep pumpy upper section is quite difficult simply because stopping to place gear would probably result in a fall. Tried not to think about how low my gear was as i wrestled with the upper crack :-)
Stevie3ee 24 Apr, 2005 Show βeta
βeta: i fell of this route10 years ago from the top crack unfotunatly my gear was near the ground. i remember it being a good route for its grade though
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βeta: i fell of this route10 years ago from the top crack unfotunatly my gear was near the ground. i remember it being a good route for its grade though
mark s 17 Sep, 2004 Show βeta
βeta: more like vs 4c,nice route though
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βeta: more like vs 4c,nice route though
tom r 26 Jul, 2004 Show βeta
βeta: Anywhere else this would be a mid grade HVS... well apart from Yorkshire where it would be given HS
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βeta: Anywhere else this would be a mid grade HVS... well apart from Yorkshire where it would be given HS
Monk 11 Jun, 2003 Show βeta
βeta: I wouldn't exactly call it low in the grade.
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βeta: I wouldn't exactly call it low in the grade.

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Grade: HVS 5a ***
(Stanage North)

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