Rockfax Description
One of the best hard routes in the Peak with a powerful start, a tricky technical crux and a beautiful upper wall. The crux is height-dependant - there is no one-size-fits-all solution here though, and knee-pads are pretty much essential. There is a bolted direct version which is still a project.
Powerpants, 8a - After the crux of PP, move right into DA. © Rockfax
FA. Chris Plant 1988.
Classic Hard Peak Limestone , THE classic old skool 8a's , Peak District Limestone top 50 sport up to 8a+ , Rockfax Peak Limestone (2012) Top 50 , World Graded List , Peak Rock/15/The Dawn of Sport:A Bolt From the Blue , Peak limestone north graded list - sport , UK 8a and up , Definitive *** Peak Lime , Lime Time
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King Shovel Hands | 3 Jun |
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βeta: refined beta. heel-hook sharp jug with hands between side pulls for 3rd clip. Use closer left hand side pull and sink into the knee bar for crux. Climb headwall direct with right hand crimp side pull with thumb. climbed past the crux, fell off after a footslip. hopefully it'll go down next week | ||
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βeta: refined beta. heel-hook sharp jug with hands between side pulls for 3rd clip. Use closer left hand side pull and sink into the knee bar for crux. Climb headwall direct with right hand crimp side pull with thumb. climbed past the crux, fell off after a footslip. hopefully it'll go down next week |
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193 | 21 Sep, 2020 |
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βeta: Named ironically | βeta? | |
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βeta: Named ironically |
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remus | 27 May, 2020 |
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βeta: Friend of mine snapped off a foothold through the traverse bit on the crux today. He was using it for a bit of a kneebar (not the usual one) so might mean a bit of a sequence change for some. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Friend of mine snapped off a foothold through the traverse bit on the crux today. He was using it for a bit of a kneebar (not the usual one) so might mean a bit of a sequence change for some. |
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Grade: 8a ***
(High Tor)