Ascents as various tick types by Stuart McElroy

Last route of the day - had to evacuate due to hordes of March Flies, so missed out on Rod's Arete!

Felt like a pretty solid 15!

Took a few goes to work the sequence. Started off thinking I should (could?) dyno from the good sidepull to sharp jugs...but that was too painful, so ended up doing it by a sequence of static sidepulls ever higher up the crack and then a final deadpoint to the sharp jug...with several left foot smears.

Lovely

Excellent! Great finger locks which turn into jugs as you get higher. I want more of these kind of problems. Even the jump from boulder to boulder to get down is fun!

Cool feature..if only it was longer!

Solid jam

Short but fun jamBing

Fell from near the top first attempt...high enuff to have time to think 'wow, this is a long fall....' and then....crunch!

Good problem that can be done even when the tips are trashed!

Easy if you know how to finger-lock and jam!

Cool once the sequence is nailed

Ended up doing a stem move which docks a grade or two!

Fun arete thing. Also did a problem between this and the V5 starting with right in incut and left in sidepull/undercling at base of arete, and then up not using the arete V1?

It was all really fun...until the topout!

Had a horrible mantle style...grovelling around with knees and all!

Pretty easy but with the possibility of falling down the hole if you came off...enough of a threat to scare Miss B from trying it ...maybe only V0.

Felt stopped trying to go past the first bolt and so grabbed the draw...then couldn't even do 'the' move in the new shoes, and so it was down to the ground. TracyB cranked 'the' move first go which gave me hope. On with the old boots...and that made the difference! Bloody hard fight after that though, and 'the' move became one of many hard 'moves'. Dug deep, and despite feeling like I'd be off several times, I eventually got through.