Ascents as Tick, Solo, First ascent, First free ascent or Lead as sport by o_g

Had to work hard. Good stuff.

Lots of complaining from the rope monkey about some lichen and moss in the top half. I of course rather than complain took action (and a brush) and gave it a polish. Unsurprisingly the (by that stage) belay monkey then complained about dirt and grit falling into his eyes. At some stage he will toughen up.

You really have to drop the clutch and commit on this one.

Great climb.

Still classic.

Thought I was going to fall off, even with my brand new la sportiva katanas. Lucky I didn't, or I would have asked for my money back.

Got the early morning flight, and arrived to a drizzly stormy day. Headed to the Grande Grotta for some shelter. Tough finding a warm up route with plenty of other people thinking the same.

Nice climbing. Suffers a bit from dust. Hopefully it gets more traffic and clean up a bit

Climbed three times.

Warming up.

More warming up.

Warming up

Warm up.

I think this was pretty good. I was so cold however by this stage, that I lost feeling in my fingers. Should have bought my hotwater bottle.

Good route.

Led to access top of new route to right. Thought we would get some sun, but not to be.

Awesome pitch. Techy trying to work out when to move back right down low, and pumpy up high.

It rained most of the was on the drive up, but was miraculously dry. Steep hill was a bit of a test on the dodgy ankle, it held up well.

Warming up.

Warm up. Always feels a bit tricky.

Warm up, and testing of tweaked rh lumbrical. Workable with buddy taping. Note to self, if doing maximum 2 finger hangs, taking no rest between front 2 and back 2 to save time is not a winning strategy.

Fair bit of swell meant a bit of wind blown spray kept things a bit damp on an otherwise low spooge day. Stick clipped bolt 2, climbed up then tried to put a new draw on to un-backclip, but back-clipped again. Tried again, back clipped again. Got mega pumped and almost fell off. Held it together. This route is pretty run out

Always a pleasure. No rouge waves today, but Roger P did knock a large pile of choss in my direction which kept things interesting.

Back at the Paradiso! Weather looked marginal, and there was much spooge on arrival at 2pm. Conditions were fair from 4 to 7. Shock Wave felt hard today. No chalk or tick marks! How the hell are you supposed to climb when the holds are hard to find?

Clean, but with an assist from the tree at the start.

Warm up