Ascents by Noah Boudreau-Richard

Thought I was on something else so I mostly climbed off route. Went around to the left on P1 (5.8). Climbed most of P2 but traversed over to the left before the final moves lowering the grade slightly. Worked on the crux sequence of P3 (BEAUTIFUL!). Aid climbed 10-12m after the crux and freed the rest. Rappelled from the anchor of P3

Most pitches are very nice but not incredible. All of the 5.10b cruxes are one to two moves. The 5.12a crux is three bolts of super technical sharp crimps. Hard to onsight. Pitch 14 is worth doing even if you're not doing pitch 15.

Simulclimbed all but the last pitch. Got up in 3h (2h30 to the top of P14) and down in 1h. Double 60m.

Apron Strings into Grandwall, into bellygood ledge. Took 3 falls on Perry's lieback and a rest on the last hard pitch.

Started late (3h30) after getting down from TNT wall. Figured we'd just get as far as we could. Linked 1-2-3 (a little bit of simul at the end) 4-5, 6. Stopped at the top of pitch 6.

Thought we were climbing "Riviere Kwai" but followed the wrong line. There is a new bolt line to the right of "Pilier du levant" which confused us.

Linked 'Banana Peel' into 'Bommstick Crack' into 'Squamish Buttress' into 'The Butt Light'.

6h up, 1h30 down.

Approach shoes all the way.

Linked 1+2, 3+4, then did a short scramble pitch to base of butt light (5.9). From there, I ran a long pitch to a tree just below the 5.8 chimney.

Great climb with Dom and Mat. Took 6h round trip. We climbed a few variants by accident.

P1 we climbed up another slab on the right and traversed back over to the anchor. P2 we climbed past the intended anchor into the left variant of P3 P3 we climbed up the slab to downclimb traverse the slab back to the anchor P4 left variant, past the anchor, gear belay in the wider section P5 short pitch to the anchor below the bolted slab variant of P6 P6 horrible slab of doom (took a fall while seconding) P7-8-9 were on track

Climbed the tree start to get to angel crack to free an old cam. Rappelled back down after.

We stretched p2 to the intermediate rap anchor and then linked 3 and 4

Decent climb wandering between other climbs. Route finding involved. The best pitches are the last three. Crux was the last few moves of P4.

It's also on that climb that I leaned SR means standard rack and not single rack. And Squamish SR is a few more cams than a single rack... Made it interesting.

Best route I've climbed on 'le Dôme' so far. First pitch is a stellar 5 star climb in itself. Good rack management is required for this long pitch which offers constant exposure and difficulty. The remainder of the climb offers great climbing interrupted by a short "not so great" section. P2 and P3 can be linked but careful rope drag management is required, as well as being very comfortable at the grade.

Retrieved the gear from the accident. Wonderful climbing conditions! Lead it all in 6 pitches taking the original finish (5.4) which is much nicer than the 5.8 variation.

Still a little drity (we broke a 50cm*50cm*20cm piece off). Pretty airy pitch, nice moves up the overhanging arete. This is a one move wonder with a pretty far reach. I worked the move until I found the way to do it. Lowered and redpointed the pitch. 5'9", +1 ape index.

Took the Macaque-Attaque variation.

Well that was a long climb... Linked 1-2, then simul-climbed until pitch 14 (with a short belay for the 10th pitch traverse). Then linked 15-16, 17-18. And finished it one pitch at time. On the way down we back lead the 23rd pitch. Then 60m simul raps the whole way through.

Beautiful 3D climbing.

Must do.

Diserves more stars! The opening sequence is not given but very nice. The rest is just cnady!

Very constant climb.

Long. Beautiful.

Must do. Awesome test piece at the grade!

Linked the two pitches into a long single pitch. Must do!

Simulclimbed in 1h15. Progress capture device after the 1st pitch. Down in 20 min. Double 60m. Feels like going up a staircase. With 30-35 draws we could've made it up in a single pitch.

Tricky route finding but beautiful

Very nice climb. More sustained then I thought.

Intimidating but definitely worth it. Bring good footwork. Next time I'll have to climb it without the rest ledge.