Ascents as various tick types by Bonnie

as single pitch. did a Dane and decided that following recommended gear was for the weak; didn't take into account gear lists being per pitch, nor the offwidth variant (clearly the nicer line). gear beta from climbers on next route gave me the confidence to try for the anchors instead of pitching it out. I'm sure being 5m above a tipped out unextended #4 in an insecure offwidth is good training for something

tried heading back in late arvo. trailhead ~6pm, started climbing 7:10pm, linked p1 and p2 as ~68m megapitch for daylight reasons, about 20min to lead each pitch. was slightly terrified in initial pinscars ('yes I'm aware that I'm now soloing') and blindly placing a #0.5 underfoot by feel. ran out everything that wasn't cruxy, drag wasn't too horrendous. scramble and talus in dark, at carpark 9:59pm. such a quality line, totally worth it

after trying to drive to glacier point apron and getting accidentally booted out of the valley loop after 1h45, long weekends are fun

fun afternoon ramble, mostly avoiding the storm. a bit spookgey in the humidity esp. the RH variant start

fun first Creek lead! glad I didn't TR it last week.

EoD, way too hot in the sun, wish i'd brought wires. melted; swore; eventually committed

fun offwidthing after rap clean

managed to get on this on a rainy friday afternoon. linked p1+p2 (it's fine not clipping any p2 bolts, just stay on the river side of the ridge)

pleasant but maybe slightly overrated

mega, totally lives up to the hype. led p2, p4

struggled with exposure and being comfortable with my TRS setup

tried to lead, placed the merlin but bailed when the chimney turned into an offwidth and i didn't really know how to proceed. brutal.

what we ended up on. got less friable further up

indeed reachy

guess the way to get better at climbing cracks us to get on the sharp end

tricky for the grade as with everything else here. got scared and stitched this up - there is decent gear to be found amongst all the rock that seems to want to come off

gear retrieval mission part 2. led p1 only - bulge was very exciting for a 5.8

big moves. linked into Suze (from anchors, not down low) to clean

water streak slab in the wet, what can possibly go wrong? bailed left to salamander (also wet) after 1.5 pitches

very nervy