Ascents of Reincarnation having Beta

A few good moves, but a lot of ordinary face moves otherwise. Traverse is a bit much for limited gain.

Really nice, end traverse unnecessary, should have anchors straight up at the break I reckon

Omg Ash promised me give metres of traverse. It felt like a lifetime. Also traverse holds were reeeeal sandy. Overall a great climb though!

Really enjoyed this, interesting moves all the way leading to a spicy traverse. Why does the guide not give it stars?

nice face climbing with excellent gear and not so excellent rock. travers is the cherry on top. BEWARE of falling rocks. 2 fist size rocks flew pretty close when I was at the anchors

Would be a classic if not for the massive traverse and downclimb.

Genuinely one of the best cracks at the grade in the Bluies (though probably a fairly substantial sand bag) with its classicness being only slightly marred by some less than excellent rock. Great thoughtful climbing up a proud line to the rad and improbable 5m leftwards traverse to get to the Jezebel belay. Whilst I agree that it would be much more straightforward and easy for there to be a lower off just below the shale choss, the traverse is pretty wild and certainly rounds off the route's full value feel! The horizontal break you climb across takes #4 camalots to start and then #3s and #2s.

Clean repeat, this time Seconding Neil. Still great. Seriously deserves an onslaught of additional traffic.

The epiphany that this ISN'T Aladinsane (read my last ascent of this route on TheCrag) has caused me to question my life choices, where I'm going in my future, and what I really want to achieve. What is the meaning of the life, and the nature of the universe? Does our inability to measure self-awareness in other species actually preclude the possibility that it exists, and if not, do we need to change our perspective of our uniqueness on this planet. If the defining characteristic of self-awareness is the capacity for self-doubt, which can only be instantiated through the existence of other people (to whom we ascribe a value of their opinion great enough that we entertain the possibility that their perception is right, and ours is wrong) mean that the very notion of "self awareness" is a physical impossibility without a society, and thus was Sartre right when he proclaimed "hell is other people"?

2018 Update - Back when I climbed this in 2017, I thought this was Aladinsane. I blame Ben Jenga (who also thought this was Aladinsane when he climbed it back in 2010 with me in the posse as a nub trad climber), as I just went straight for the route he'd climbed that day. So, yeah, I feel pretty dumb.)

Original 2017 comments: "Spectacular climbing up a soaring line with oodles of bombproof gear [...] Mostly good rock, varied and continuously engaging. The crack is beautifully clean. Finishing up at the Jezebel belay is the correct way to finish this climb, just traverse left for miles on an obvious clean #3 cam break.