Ascents of Terminal Velocity

I love this route!

Epic!

Nice and sustained

So sick! Man I love blaze. Love the angle of the cliff and the plates of rock that overlap to produce such interesting features. The rock is really fantastic, there are cracks, pockets, plates, even slopey weird curves that feel that they grew out of a river bed. Great variety of moves at blaze and terminal is no exception.

I've sent terminal a few times before but via two easier variations. This time I did it proper. What's follows is a discussion of this (some may consider it beta).

3 routes in one: At the base of the obvious bulge which is the crux there are 3 paths. Right avoids the bulge and takes you to a crack, making the route 20 at highest IMO. If you climb the arete, half on the bulge and half off, with feet resting on the rock near the aforementioned crack, it's still a lot easier, probably still 20. Option 3 is if you leave the arete to the left and climb out onto and up the face of the bulge, much harder and definitely a proper 21.

I struggled with fear on this section as it's quite far to the next clip and very thin. What helped me get the send properly was to realise after a failed attempt that it's best (beta alert) to clip this bolt from above, so you don't end up clipping off anything too insecure. It was a bit moist today which also worsened this. Second go today I got it cleanly and overcame my nerves !

What a route ! Will have a video at some point.

I finally went straight 😆🕺🏽

Took a massive whip on this route last time I climbed at Blaze with Johan. Chuffed to get the send today, but almost took the whip again! Great route -- favourite 21 so far.

2nd Go

First 21 flash! Airy moves up the face of the bulge.

Repeat

What a rush climbing the crux instead of around (which makes it more of a 20), as I previously had done.

Such a nice route!

Awesome route.. with 2 or 3 tricky moves as you get on to the white rock at top.. This section is a little hard to read/onsight. Ther's a nice ridge to match hands, then reachey hold to left and get your feet high, then reach up.. Took a fall on top, and got it on second attempt

About fucking time, and I am not that fit at the moment!

SA 21