Ascents as various tick types by Douglas Hockly

One #3RP if I remember right

Great route, sustained and interesting, definitely 21 for me.

There are many, many better routes than this here

Actually ok

Remember it being hard for the grade

Interesting climbing, shame about the ledge

Really great, spoilt a bit by the loose ramble to a tree

Pretty tough but gear is ok

omg. Thought I'd do this to get to Theory ledge. There's a groove that's totally composed of loose blocks. Shockingly awful, and dirty and dangerous and shit climbing - it's got it all...

I really liked this! Super interesting climbing with flared jams, shallow bridging, face climbing and a layback section to finish. Sustained and technical. Would be hard to place gear on lead. The undercling is fragile, don't break it or it'll get a lot harder! Second shot tr.

I thought this was good but a little disappointing as if you're tall (and remotely flexible) you can bridge to LLL.

Take big cams but no actual offwidthing

Think of this in the same vein as "11a offwidth". An amazing (though very short) corner with crap holds at the back and desperate insecure bridge-thrutching and squeak-panting. 2 falls until I realised I was facing the wrong way.

A good route with bad climbing? The start is great, and the rock is good the whole way, but the top is a really long increasingly desperate thrutch. Good to have done it once.

Great except for the tight awkward section in the middle. Well protected, actually takes a lot of midsize cams

Lovely climbing on the top wall, if you start up BST this feels like 24/5. I did TR the original start, which is quite hard but sadly not that great and has some dodgy rock.

Don't remember anything!

A really good route with a short section of proper offwidthing. I chicken winged and found it totally desperate but I imagine that there is better technique one could apply.

This is a great route! Good rock and no actual offwidthing despite appearances. More like 17 though.

I found this really hard at the top but I don't feel like I have good offwidth technique. Quite a good route apart from some scary loose bits.

All I remember is really sore feet. Not really a fan of this one.

Interesting all the way. A bit broken by ledges but well worthwhile. The start is tricky and hard to protect - you can get a #6 Camalot in the flare to back up the other pieces if you have one.

Gets quite wide in the middle. The finish, though it looks ugly, is actually OK

Fantastic route. Second or third shot.

I find this incredibly hard and insecure due to a) poor crack technique and b) my hands don't go into the crack so it's all marginal thin hands.

Not as awful as it looks, but the top has some big loose blocks that guarantee it's future unpopularity.

I find this desperate in the top half where its very thin hands for me. Actually easier without tape gloves as I can get more of my hand in!

This really is great. The first bit of Inquisition is excellent, clean, interesting climbing. The top half of Catcher in the Rye is wonderful, jams and locks and quite sustained on excellent rock. It's a little dirty as nobody ever does it. Might be 24, certainly had Wendy and I pulling out all stops to get up it without coming off despite having TR'd it a few days ago.

10 laps training in my Become Adam Demmert programme. Having the plastic surgery next week - so excited! Conditions a bit warm, had to climb shirtless by the end.

I think the start has cleaned up a bit by now but still take care.

OK, I wasn't really taken with this but it is a nice long pitch. I found the finish very hard.

Better than it looks and there are a number of stances on the way.

These days I put a side runner in IIL to the right as the wire placement at the start is not that inspiring.

Great. And well protected.

An interesting move or two but short

Don't really remember this, the climbing didn't stand out.

I quite like this but it's very hard when you have rudimentary wide crack skills!

Pretty poor gear. There's not much climbing either.

The start is interesting (and a bit slick and desperate) but the chimney up the top is no fun. And no gear. And some loose bits.

Really great.

Awsm!

Second or third shot, after which it was promptly downgraded from 26... sigh. Boulder problems between jugs.

Beautiful climbing in the initial groove and the top, the crux is not quite as nice - just really hard crimping. I wore a groove in my left boot on the crux edge - always thought my foot was going to blow but I guess the groove held it on! Strangely takes lots of gear between #2 and #3 RP size. 3 days I think.

Good gear, great climbing, lovely route.

This is really great! interesting and varied climbing, though can be a bit dirty up high.

Pretty good, one hard move up the top, but the linkup or Epic are better

Everyone, it seems, loves this route except me. It's a good looking line but there is a frightening amount of loose rock in the first half, an unpleasant slopey mantle and then a quite avoidable offwidth. The climbing's just not very good.

Really like this one. Varied and interesting.

Most people seem to think this is a mega classic but it doesn't really grab me. It's good, but some loose feeling rock and the way it goes out to the arete detracts for me. Still very good, I just enjoy other things more.

super slippery now

I remember wobbling up this with anchor-like rope drag on one of my first leads at Frog

Not worth it.

Wobbled my way up this as one of my early 21s...

Horrible, but all chimneys are the same. They should only be used for expelling smoke, not climbing.

Don't remember enjoying this.

Desperate as your first route at Frog after a few weeks of climbing! Not a great choice for early leaders unless you have a lot of biggish gear.

I remember this being remarkably nice for a short thing. Not that I've got anything against short things, of course.

The bottom has a cool sequence, I remember enjoying the top too.

Just squeaked up this one on second! Really good, odd climbing, very sustained for the first 8m or so.

Good at the start, I remember having a wobble up higher at a slabby bit and some hollow sounding rock.

I did this with Edwin as the first climb of our 'fruit themed route names day'. I remember pulling down half a cubic metre of leaf litter on myself and thinking 'we're going to do some really crap routes today and this is one of them'