Slip 'n' Slide | E6 Trad climb at Crookrise

United Kingdom / England / Skipton

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TdG
3 contributions since 2nd September 2025.
remus
1 contribution since 1st November 2021.

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Ascents

1 successful ascent recorded.

Climber Style Ascent Date Suggested Grade
First ascent.

One of the boldest routes on grit at the time.

It was such an obvious line, one I'd looked at regularly as a lad. I'd abseiled down it and cleaned it a bit, and then persuaded a kid called Richard Cox, who just happened to be at the crag that day, to hold my rope. The final moves out of the ramp and up a short wall are on poor smears for your feet. Mess that up and there's a good chance you'll hit the ground from fifty feet. But it's a brilliant climb, done years before sticky rubber became available. It was also, at the time, the most serious new route I'd put up, if not the most technically difficult.

References

[1] Ron Fawcett, Ed Drummond 'Ron Fawcett: Rock Athlete', Vertebrate Publishing, 2011