Ascents of General Benefit

2nd successful lead just hadn't logged the other one

Hard. Forgot helmet, didn’t feel like leading these spaced bolted climbs.

Stoked!! Second session. Felt far away and scaryyy on the first go, but dialled it quickly. TR send on 3rd burn of the day, lead send next go! Thought it’d be a scary lead with some spicy clips, but head game was great, and didn’t even fathom any runouts. Found a really nice flow, and moves that felt insecure went smoothly. Bit burly, bit slopey, bit crimpy, bit pumpy. Quite nice indeed. First 22 lead!

nice, cool gaston sequence and some smooth face climbing.

Repeat

Very cool moves but too hard for me this time !

Yay I’m so happy I sent this before the end of the year!!!! I wasn’t sure if it was an overly ambitious goal but it’s exciting to have proved to myself it wasn’t! I remember feeling like it almost wasn’t worth hopping on the climb when I first tried it exactly two months ago, but I did and could get all the moves and it turned out it only took 3 sessions (maybe 5 tries??) to send!? Which was quite surprising and confidence boosting, it’s so nice to be spending less of rope climbing sessions feeling unconfident and untrusting of my feet! Trying more routes is definitely helping me improve my beta remembering a little too; some very serious diagram drawing yesterday meant that I just had to work out a few feet today (thank you Slabby for reminding me that hold existed!!). I actually quite liked the big, reachy moves, and the transition from the almost campus/pull-up start moves to some smaller holds further up makes it feel like a nicely varied climb! and the shouldery gaston move is cooool. I’m so psyched to try some more Fruey climbs and to try leading this one!

Used to be 22 long ago but a lot of holds have either gone or got smaller.

Learning to lead again, very fun climb

With Roger and Ben

2 monster whips, somewhere between 6-8 meters; feet brushed the ground from 3rd.

So I can confirm, clipping 3rd off the high left crimp is not a groundfall if you fumble, providing ur belayer is on it.

Some pretty cool moves on this one.