Ascents climbed between 2013-01-01 and 2013-12-31 as Pink point by Paul Frothy Thomson

2nd shot today. Stoked! Is this perhaps the best face climb I've ever done? The first shot I struggled with the bouldery bottom crux (and after falling, took my time to figure out the super-technical, strenuous middle-crux), so that when I jumped on for the second lap it was all executed perfectly, and I still felt really good after topping out. A true climbers climb in the vein of Marxism P1, with 2 distinct cruxes, but unrelenting technicality outside of them. Brilliant!

2nd shot. Most of it is a great, tricky, varied 22 on perfect rock and with nicely spaced bolts... Except for the V3 boulder crux, that's probably more 24... But if you IGNORE that section, it's totally 22. I really enjoyed this one for the experience, but don't climb it for the grade.

An embarassing number of shots for the tick (4) because I just kept making stupid mistakes and falling off. Great climb, why does this get climbed so rarely? Not hard for a 25, but amazing climbing the whole way with really funky, varied movement. I did the last move to the ORIGINAL set of anchors, which isn't really all that hard, but quite exciting. I then had to back-jump it to clean which was exhilerating from the top.

2nd shot, way too smashed for the flash. Soft at 24 WITH the beta, but probably quite a hard onsight as the crux is quite sequency and the best holds are not obvious. I found the main crux hard, but the second (reachy) crux wasn't so bad for me at my height. Quite interesting climbing, and unique compared to its neighbours.

Second shot. 23 for the red-point. Fell off on the last move of the crux at the top (where everyone does). Great steep-ish face climbing to the crux, then some strenuous climbing to the anchors through the steepness (and via much glue). Definately not as bad as I've heard people say.

2nd shot. The warm-up onsight attempted ended on the headwall when I couldn't clip a draw due to a quickdraw cockup. I really liked this climb. The start is fairly easy, but makes a good warmup through juggy steepness, and the top headwall is unlikely, technical climbing on amazing red/grey-streaked rock. If it weren't for the lack of lower-offs, this climb would be a classic.

Repeat. A one-sequence wonder. Felt about right at the grade, but only due to a single hold. Okay climbing.

Great to finally get back on this for the tick 2 years after it became my first ever "project". Even better to know that my beta from back then was spot on even today. Still took me three shots though, in the coldest summer day ever (sleet???). 1st shot as a warmup I made it through the crux, but my hands froze and I fell off. 2nd was a back-clipped mess. 3rd shot it came together and felt easy. Still great climbing in the style, at the grade.

Pitch 1 only in the baking sun. Still took me 2 shots (today) to get it after I got lost below the crux on the first shot. Stunning climbing the whole way on great rock. This type of movement epitomises face climbing!

2nd shot. Great sustained climbing in prime position. Two hard moves, but this is not a "cruxy" route, just a technical and pumpy one. Brilliant.

2nd shot. The first lap ended at the same point as Will Monks below: launching for a red-herring monster-tick mark, instead of to the crucial jug elsewhere. Super-rad roof moves, then interesting and mostly juggy climbing up the headwall. The top crux is challenging but not too bad. The final section (to the anchors) is a balancy, committing change of pace. Excitingly run out (I took a big fall on this one). Awesome.

2nd shot. I climbed like a bumbly on the first shot and totally muffed it up. A great climb that goes right to the top of the cliff, and climbs very differently to its neighbours at this crag. I found it quite stiff at the grade, but a great addition. Slopers and Underclings!

D'oh! I could have clipped the anchors on the onsight from the stemming stance, but decided to do one more move to the "jugs" above the anchors and fell off. Whoops! Most of the climb is funky grade 19 stemming, but the top moves are kind of tricky, and probably warrant the grade. Pretty good as a warm up, especially if you want a bit of trad with your sport.

Fell off the bouldery start 3 times before I stuck it, and the climbing isn't over after that. Some challenging sequences all the way to the anchors, and wandery enough to keep you looking around. I'd call the start move 22, but the overall route a 21. Not bad at all.

2nd shot. A footer slipped near the top on the onsight. Went quite easily on the next lap. Didn't feel too hard, but is quite enjoyable for such a short route. Slopey, polished funkiness.

Stellar thin crack. Overhangs by 2m, though you wouldn't realise it to look at it. My onsight ended at the super-tricky crux (the last hard move), though I blame warm-up flash pump and 1 million degree heat as contributing factors. Great locks on good rock, with a tricky crux sequence that MIGHT be a sandbag at 20, but went quite easily 2nd shot. Loved it.

Took me an embarassing number of attempts for the tick (3), but I'm glad I got it. A tough 7m cruxy section on small, holds (sidepulls!) on a slightly steep orange face gets you started, with easier pleasant climbing to the top. 22 in the same way that Chase the Lady is 23, right JengA? A very good addition.

2nd shot. It shouldn't have taken me 2 shots, but I guess I'm just crap. After the first shot I came back down, untied, pulled rope, and went straight back up and walked up the climb easily. Probably soft at the grade, but definately harder if you're short. 2 distinctly cruxy sections in very differing styles, with an easy 19ish top half. I like this climb, I think it's probably under-rated.

Leith took a hammer to the crap rock on this earlier in the day, and I'm glad to say my doubts about whether this would be climb-able with so many holds smashed off were proven very wrong. This is NOW actually a really enjoyable friction slab, with the rock that is left feeling very solid (will be great with some rain to wash off the rock-dust). Probably in the vein of a Tarana 17/18 (my only consistent comparison to this style of climbing).

3rd pitch only, 1st shot today. After finishing up the Slow Twitch Extension (25), I rapped back to the hanging belay at the start of P3, and cruised it with John the Kiwi belaying (and his draws already on the route). Bloody brilliant climbing, and I'm stoked that I felt so-strong on it (after having climbed 3 x 25ish routes back to back). One of the best 23s out there.

2nd shot. Happy with this tick, 42m is a long way. I'd heard this hadn't been onsighted, so I gave it everything (with no chalk or wear on the holds, and only the bolts to guide my wandery way) but couldn't get through all the tricky sequences to send. A tad sandy, a bit brittle, a bit old-school. But a truly awesome route IN THE STYLE. If this was 2-pitches, I wouldn't bother. But 1 x 42m pitch is inspiring. A few 23-ish moves, with sustained climbing but separated by good jugs to rest on.

Hmmm, I thought that this was about 23? A bit of a one-sequence wonder with tenuous climbing through a total absense of positivity (or anything resembling holds). I fell off on the onsight a half-metre from the victory jug. Cruised it second shot in the fading light. Good, but not on the same level as its neighbours.

1st shot today, 3rd shot total over a few years. Felt easy-ish (vaguely remembering the moves), but still tricky, and no giveaway at the grade, with 3 distinctly hard sequences. A true classic in the style, and a worthy onsight for any climber to aspire too. Committing!

2nd shot. Very onsightable, I merely overlooked an obvious hold. Not cruxy, merely sustained and reachy funkiness. Only at the grade if you stick religiously to the left side of the arete, and soft if you're tall. Steeper than it looks. An unsung gem.

2nd shot today. Though I had it first shot, but foot slipped while on the good handholds at the end. Quite tricky and slippery, demanding faith in your rubber.

2nd shot. Not my day for onsights. On my first attempt, I fell at the last bolt, on good holds after all the hard climbing waas over with a silly foot slip. The second shot it went easily. Great climbing, and not too hard except for the crux sequence on the Direct version. Just genuinely enjoyable thinness all the way.

2nd shot. On the first, feet popped on the crux hold and I couldn't hold the cut loose. Went easily next go. A one move wonder surrounded by easy jugging. Like Spinning Blades, kind of a novelty route, really.

Good to clean up this old ghost first shot today. The start was tricky, but hardly nails... I don't know what drugs I was on last time I was at Tarana (I couldn't get up the start of this in like 15 attempts, but could onsight the monster Retreat from Moscow???). Okay climbing after the second bolt (felt about Tarana Grade 18).

Climbed on Jengas gear. Threw away the flash in the first few metres of climbing due to a lack of commitment, lowered to the ground and then climbed clean to the top. The first few moves are tricky and committing feet-free thinness with potentially a bad fall factor. After that it is much easier though still quite technical, a real classic.

Second shot on my on preplaced gear from my onsight attempt. Blew the onsight near the top on the final crux. Two distinct committing, run-out cruxes surrounded by good climbing and gear. The final moves are quite gripping.

Yay, ticked something at Dumbarton Rock (directly below Requiem/Rhapsody!). Challenging technical slab that is a lot harder than it looks on frictionless, slopey holds that all seem to be facing the wrong direction. I got this fourth shot. Would have loved to do some other routes here, but with the weather closing in, we had to call it a day.

Really good, and with no chalk (and moss) on everything, it was a pure onsight. The tricky move at the second bolt got me on the flash (warm-up) attempt. Lowered off and climbed clean to the top. More cruxy, but not as hard as the climb next to it. I'd even say borderline 22-ish until you're past the roof. We walk past this all the time on the way down sublime, why doesn't it get more traffic???

Second shot (or flash from the 2nd bolt). Onsight attempt was going well until a time consuming equipment cock-up (resulting in a broken wiregate biner) pumped me into stupidity and I took an awkward fall. Strenous, roofy, campusy start, then technical corner/seam to easy climbing in flake system above. A climb with two personalities, and worthwhile. Some weird pockety things for novelty value.

Second shot. I learned the hard way that the bottom half does NOT make a good warm up (sustained 22-ish), but the top half DOES (20/21?). Surprisingly good climbing on mostly great rock. Nice technical bottom half with 2 distinctive (but interesting) cruxes, with a steep-ish but juggy top half to a spicy finale. I Really enjoyed this.

2nd shot today. 3rd shot total. Pretty happy to get this one. Huge sentry-box roof to some bouldery moves, to a committing and desparate move to get your left foot on the wall, then 21/22 to the top (with 2 more hard bits). Don't even try and clip the crux draw, just keep climbing (you won't hit anything if you fall). I kept my promise to come back to this one, JengA.

2nd shot today, in the dark with a headlamp. The slab was so wet that it was scary, and everything was spoogy, but that only made the tick more worthwhile. Soft as, but still fun. Glad to tick this cause it's not usually my style.

Second shot today... First shot a quickdraw on my harness clipped through one of the quickdraws on the route while going through that first roof (???), so pink-point for the tick it is. Slightly technical start to some big moves on jugs. Climbs better than it looks, and it was good to bring down the climb that destroyed my hamstring 5 months ago.

Decided to warm up on this in slimy conditions, thinking it would be a pushover... Um... Yeah... No. Still felt hard when I ticked it on the second shot. Had to commit 100% to that funky mantle.

3rd shot today. 1st shot was done as a warmup (everything easier already had climbers on it), 2nd shot my foot slipped off an OK footer PAST the crux, one hold from the anchors, 3rd shot it went easily and stylishly. Glad to tick this, but I've enjoyed every moment on it.

2nd Shot today, and went really easily. First shot I committed to the one hard move with my feet in all the wrong places, and just couldn't get out of it. Easy climbing to one cruxy section (hard 22?), to an easy finale. Okay climbing, but there's better stuff to be done here.

Ticked 2nd Shot today, 5th or 6th shot overall over about 2 years. Still tough, but worth it. As per my description below, this climb doesn't let up until the anchors, but is probably the most straightforward climb here (except for perhaps the desparate mantle). I really enjoyed it.

Ticked 2nd Shot today, 7th shot overall over about 2 years. FINALLY! Amazingly weird climbing, with some interesting technical moves to a cruxy move, to a pumpy finale, all following a bizarre iron-stone seam protruding from the wall and running right up to the roof of the cave.

I placed the crux draw, does that make it a red point? Not remembering any of the moves, I was pretty slow through the crux sequence and consequently it didnt feel easy. KNOWING the sequence, this climb is probably soft at the grade. Pretty cool moves, great exposure and pumpy for a such a short climb.

Pretty good, though some dubious rock (near the start, mostly) spoils it a bit. Should have been an onsight, but I didn't realise you're supposed to use the arete between the last two bolts, and I tried to go straight up the face... Bloody hard for a 22! Gave it another lap for the tick. Sustained, though not too cruxy.

Went incredibly easily second shot. A trad-ish cruise on either side of the crux, and a weird crux move that isn't climbed the way you THINK it will be climbed. A good climb, but definately a one-move wonder. Could be a half decent warm-up here when you know the crux sequence.

Went really, really, really easily with a half decent sequence. Would've loved to do it placing the draws, but half of them were already on when I started, so I only placed the top few. The difference between an onsight and a red/pink-point on this route is massive, due to the sequence being the crux.