Ascents of Europa having Beta

Very dirty, overgrown, tons of loose rocks and bugs. Felt like a bushwhack.

P1: climbing tons of loose, sketchy feeling flakes to get to a bushwhack through bushes and spiderwebs P2: really fun hand crack leads to more loose flakes/blocks and an overhang P3: "finger crack" with a fun tree belay P4: Are we climbing trees or rocks? eat some bugs in the gully but get up to a super fun ledge P5: step like movements P6: 10c bypass - first part is pretty easy to aid with really close bolts P7: careful of your jacket in these series of chimneys

First 5 pitches are pretty sweet, mostly gully climbing without too much exposure. Decent cracks and chimneys. But pitch 6 is fucked! The bolt "ladder" is heinous (ladder for giants! It's pretty much a bolted climb) and the following hand crack is slimey and shallow! I started as the sun set and ran out of gear, retreated for the night leaving two cams on the wall (no one leaves cams behind!! ever!!). Fortunately Jeff and I combined racks the next day, finished this thing and got my gear back