Ascents in Blackwood Rocks

A slab dream!

Felt hard, but maybe I just don't climb sandstone

Thin and crimpy. Thought the traverse sequence was quite fun despite taking forever to work it. Mossy and hard to read, but personally really enjoyed the style and flow

Fumbled around for too long trying to get into the crack and dropped the onsight. Ended up breaking the beta on the redpoint attempt anyway. Fun crack to start, interesting and facey to the top

We won’t talk about how Julia got to the top of this 16 🙃

Best climb of the crag! That ending was mean though

Jamming on a sport climb 🥺

Nice climb. Brittle rock at the start. Crux is second and third bolt. Climb high at the anchor to safely clip, didn’t do this the first time and slipped on the chose. Needs some brushing but overall a nice climb for the area.

Repeat (warmup).

Came back and sent it today two years later. Great route. I had to use a little triangular crimp out left at the start, as my hand doesn't seem to fit one of the cracks.

Kinda weird, kinda fun

Pretty cool, only one mantle though.

Need to do it on gear next time

Interesting enough. Cool rock around move

Super cool movement the whole way

Would be sick on gear

Tricky at the start. Went a bit further right than the book description

Mingin

Tried first move a couple times

Better than Drop Zone in my opinion. Needs some traffic to get away some of the loose rock. Good mix of crimps, pockets, underclings, and jugs. Helps to have a positive ape span and a little height beta. Easy for a 22.

Definitely need to be comfortable with crack climbing for the first half. A trad climbers dream but fully bolted.

Punchy for a 16, crux near the start

Very fun. The crack climber in me came out and many a jam was done. Should definitely layback next time.

Got shut down on the crux. Beta seems to just be tall so I’ll work on that.

V fun laybacking

Climbs surprisingly well considering the shocking rock quality 😆

Repeat.