Rating | Grade | Route | Gear style | Crag | Quality | Date | |||
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2327
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Party In My Mind | 27m | New River Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Wed 11th Oct 2023 | |||
Some amazing holds and a long journey on mostly TCUs and some finger/ thin hand pieces. Gear sometimes spaced.
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2325
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Burning Calves | 23m | New River Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Fri 6th Oct 2023 | |||
Nice route, found near the start hardest, but probably height related due to steeper feet. The “ crux” was ok.
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2098
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Cakewalk | 30m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Wed 1st Nov 2023 | |||
2091
points
| 5.10a | ★ Biohazard | 34m | New River Gorge | ★ Good | Sat 7th Oct 2023 | |||
No one seems to do the end any more, full of cobwebs
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2074
points
| 5.10d | ★★ Realignment | 21m | New River Gorge | ★ Good | Tue 3rd Oct 2023 | |||
Route was pretty dirty, but good moves. Not sure I would lead it without checking out gear. It is there, but spaced.
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2019
points
| 5.11+ 5.11+ IV | ★★★ Brent's Hammer | 200m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★★★ Classic | Tue 15th Aug 2017 | |||
Dave did all the hard work with pitches 1,3,5. Good quality climbing and nice not to hurry. We skipped pitch 6.
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1978
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ Golden Locks | 30m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Wed 1st Nov 2023 | |||
5.9 on MP and in guidebook that seems fair, hardest start of the day. Stellar route once above the slippery start
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1978
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Razor Worm | 32m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Wed 1st Nov 2023 | |||
The most enjoyable route of the day
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1970
points
| 5.9 | ★★ New Yosemite | 18m | New River Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Tue 3rd Oct 2023 | |||
Overhanging hand jams. My gloves both lost wrist strap but I hung in there
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1969
points
| 5.9 | ★ Jumpin' Ring Snakes | 20m | New River Gorge | ★ Good | Mon 2nd Oct 2023 | |||
Fun trad climb. #5 handy.
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1946
points
| 5.11a | ★ Power Windows | 20m | Squamish | ★ Good | Thu 24th Aug 2017 | |||
I was to busy whimpering on slab traverse and run out arête with wind buffeting me to fall off
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1903
points
| 5.10d | ★★★ The Great Game | 220m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Mon 28th Aug 2017 | |||
Led an extended P2 and P4. Nice varied pitches, not a bad route to finish our trip on
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1890
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ Four Sheets To The Wind | 21m | New River Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Tue 3rd Oct 2023 | |||
What a great route. Steep and looks improbable.
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1870
points
| 5.10a | ★★ The Entertainer | 21m | New River Gorge | Tue 3rd Oct 2023 | ||||
My right shoulder just can’t handle V grooves any more. Had to change sequence at start. Rest of it was fine.
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1833
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Superslide | 30m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Tue 31st Oct 2023 | |||
Lovely slab climbing
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1827
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Autumn Fire | 21m | New River Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Wed 11th Oct 2023 | |||
Much easier than smooth operator. Quite nice.
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1825
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Rod Sterling Crack | 23m | New River Gorge | ★ Good | Fri 6th Oct 2023 | |||
Liked the finishing finger crack. Did not like move to arete.
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1778
points
| 5.8 | ★★ Passages | 30m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Tue 31st Oct 2023 | |||
Really nice climbing and protects well
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1772
points
| 5.10c | ★ The Messenger | 25m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★ Good | Fri 11th Aug 2017 | |||
A bit dirty, probably easier than 10c
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1772
points
| 5.11c | ★ Dark Crystal | 25m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★ Good | Fri 11th Aug 2017 | |||
The seam needs a good clean out of moss before trying to lead this, but nice climbing up pebbles
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1753
points
| 5.10c 5.10c/d | ★ Lust | 22m, 4 | Squamish | Average | Sun 11th Jun 2017 | |||
Some good bits, but seemed a bit easy, must have been the crimps
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1752
points
| 5.10c | ★★ Groovy Guru | 18m | Squamish | ★ Good | Tue 6th Jun 2017 | |||
A bit more sustained than the others, lots of small gear
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1698
points
| 5.8 | ★★ Sanscrit | 18m | Tennessee Wall | ★★ Very Good | Tue 31st Oct 2023 | |||
Tough initial crack, then pleasant climbing through roof. A bit sandy.
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1678
points
| 5.10a | ★★ The Sweep | Tennessee Wall | ★★ Very Good | Tue 31st Oct 2023 | ||||
A bit manky in the middle ( with minimal pro) but fun start up V groove
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1652
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Split Pillar | 45m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Fri 25th Aug 2017 | |||
I can jamb!
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1637
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Under the Big Top | 25m | West Kootenays | ★ Good | Fri 7th Jul 2017 | |||
Corner was quite slippery, but was getting over 30 degrees by then
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1626
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ The Grand Wall | 300m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Fri 25th Aug 2017 | |||
Clean- apart from the aid sections and a pull on the bolt on Perry's traverse whose "reachy move" is indeed out of reach. Our 5 am wake up saw us first on route ( at 630) but were soon pursued by 2 teams
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1606
points
| 21 |
★★★ Riders on the Storm
1
18
lead by
Dave
2
18
lead by
Me
3
21
lead by
Dave
4
5
6
7
8
| 150m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★★★ Classic | Sun 20th Aug 2017 | |||
First 3 pitches only at 11a. The offwidth is even good
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1584
points
| 5.10d 5.10c III PG | ★★★ Risky Business | 110m | Red Rock | ★★ Very Good | Sun 5th Oct 2014 | |||
Led the scary pitches, 1 and 3. I would hate to fall, the first pitch was not well protected
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1552
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Storming the Ramparts | 30m | Skaha | ★★ Very Good | Sun 18th Jun 2017 | |||
Nice and long
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1526
points
| 5.11a | ★★ Grub Street Direct | 30m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Sat 26th Aug 2017 | |||
Did it while waiting for Grub Street to clear of traffic, starts below stooges slab, 2 ledges down
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1526
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ The Sword | 25m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Fri 25th Aug 2017 | |||
One stuck nut needed 2 hands to hammer it out, fixed rope up the aid section, very strenuous
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1511
points
| 5.10+ | ★★★ The Great Line SE Face - with David Gray | 850m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★★★ Mega Classic | Tue 15th Aug 2017 | |||
Third time lucky. First go was after 9 days rain and it was very wet. We got to top of pitch 12 before bailing at 9 pm after starting late due to guys in front, at 7 am. Second go retreated pitch 6 due to bad weather. Third go went smoothly, summit in 12 1/2 hours at 6 pm and back to camp before the sun set. Amazing route, lives up to the hype
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1501
points
| 5.10d | ★★ The Goblin | 100m | Lake Louise | ★★ Very Good | Sun 20th Aug 2017 | |||
I was a bit underwhelmed by this supposed classic, and argue point perp has way better arêtes. Scary looking bolts , dirty rock, but great outlook. I started up the 11 b pitch before traversing to arête, so we probably made it a bit harder for ourselves
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1498
points
| 5.10a | ★★ Cider crack | 25m | Squamish | ★ Good | Sat 26th Aug 2017 | |||
I actually belayed half way after linking with lower pitch, but rope drag became excessive...... Another excellent crack
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1497
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Rock On | 140m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Thu 24th Aug 2017 | |||
Led1,2,4, rapped down. Great climb
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1496
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Yak-Check | 650m | Yak Peak | ★★★ Classic | Mon 21st Aug 2017 | |||
Did the climb in 4 hrs 15 min, simul climbing until pitch 8, then doing the rest in 4 pitches, and soloing off. Still a 7 hr + day with approach and 900m descent on ball bearings. Fun outing
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1488
points
| 5.10d | ★★ Lusting After Women - with David Gray | 300m | West Kootenays | ★★ Very Good | Mon 10th Jul 2017 | |||
Rock a lot grittier due to relative lack of traffic, but great line. We rappelled after P 4 as couldn't be arsed to walk down east ridge again.
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1478
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ In Pursuit of Excellence | 27m | Tennessee Wall | ★★★ Classic | Wed 1st Nov 2023 | |||
The 3 star routes at Piddington would be lucky to get one star here.
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1476
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Flying Circus | 25m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Thu 15th Jun 2017 | |||
Felt a bit stout for the grade I thought
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1476
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Neat and Cool | 30m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Thu 15th Jun 2017 | |||
Yay, steep jugs
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1471
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Smooth Operator | 27m | New River Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 7th Oct 2023 | |||
Ha ha, “ the fist crack” at the start was hard for me, ended up having to layback it to do it clean at some hard grade after trying all sorts of crazy moves. The rest of the route is great.
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1470
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Happy Hands | 21m | New River Gorge | Average | Wed 4th Oct 2023 | |||
I wasn’t a fan. Hard to get out of sentry box type bit. The whole thing felt dirty and slippery.
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1450
points
| 5.11d | ★ Toilet roof crack 1 | 10m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★ Good | Wed 16th Aug 2017 | |||
If it hadn't been our last morning and I wasn't exhausted this may have happened. Nearly there on my second attempt. Jamming gloves rule.
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1399
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Ready to Strike | 26m, 2 | Skaha | ★★ Very Good | Sat 24th Jun 2017 | |||
1398
points
| 5.10d | ★★★ Inner Limits | 30m, 3 | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★★★ Classic | Fri 11th Aug 2017 | |||
Despite its wide nature, this crack/ chimney was very fun, with many climbing tricks needed.
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1375
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Wham, Bam, Thanks For The Jam | 21m | New River Gorge | Average | Wed 4th Oct 2023 | |||
Overhanging Fist crack- maybe if you have men hands, more like overhanging offwidth start. Didn’t even like the traverse around the corner or the crack to the top that much which were straightforward compared to start.
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1322
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Malpractice | 20m | Skaha | ★★ Very Good | Sun 24th Aug 2014 | |||
Nice trad route with oodles of gear
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1315
points
| 5.10b | ★ S-M's Delight | 25m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Sat 2nd Aug 2014 | |||
Nice finger crack, almost got a booty nut
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1315
points
| 5.10b 5.10c | ★★★ A Little Testis | 30m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Fri 1st Aug 2014 | |||
Found getting out of the little alcove very tricky.
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1303
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ Carol's Crack | 50m | Devils Tower National Monument | ★★★ Classic | Thu 18th Sep 2014 | |||
Led pitch 1, second 2
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1303
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ El Matador | 150m | Devils Tower National Monument | ★★★ Classic | Wed 17th Sep 2014 | |||
Seconded pitch 2. I think I was heard to say I want to die about 2/3 of the way up. This has got to be height dependent
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1303
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ McCarthy North Face | 110m | Devils Tower National Monument | ★★★ Classic | Wed 17th Sep 2014 | |||
Led70 m pitch 1. Second pitch superb
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1298
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Old Style | 30m | Squamish | ★ Good | Sat 26th Aug 2017 | |||
There are so many right facing dihedral a in Squamish. This is another
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1297
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Witch Doctor's Apprentice | 25m | Squamish | ★ Good | Thu 24th Aug 2017 | |||
One quite hard move through roof, though arm span may have something to do with it
|
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1293
points
| 5.9 | Rain Dance | 20m | Cirque of the Unclimbables | Average | Fri 11th Aug 2017 | |||
Pretty easy except for one desperate reachy move for me with gear at feet
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1285
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ South Face (The Grand Sentinel) | 90m | Valley of the Ten Peaks | ★★ Very Good | Sat 15th Jul 2017 | |||
Loved the hanging chimney on pitch 3. Rock quality a bit crap in spots, but fun trad route with a nice 2.5 hr walk in
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1276
points
| 5.10c | ★★★ Cling Peaches | 30m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Sat 26th Aug 2017 | |||
Not too bad for grade, nice tips climbing, starts under Stooges slab, 2 ledges down
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1275
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ Snake | 220m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Mon 12th Jun 2017 | |||
Led 1,3,5. Last pitch pretty wet for added excitement. Also got a booty cam and caught a c3 that Dave dropped 30 m half way up the climb. Pleasant and fairly short cruxes
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1275
points
| 5.9 | ★★★ High Mountain Woody | 45m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Sat 10th Jun 2017 | |||
Cruisy with lots of good rest stances to cough at
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1275
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Stefanie's Tears | 45m | Squamish | ★ Good | Sat 10th Jun 2017 | |||
Did a bit of P1 with s&t, and led p2, a long lay back
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1274
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Ancient Squamish Secret | 25m | Squamish | Average | Tue 6th Jun 2017 | |||
Not that sustained
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1261
points
| 5.10c | ★ Forever Young | 33m | West Kootenays | ★ Good | Fri 7th Jul 2017 | |||
The sun was coming, needs more traffic
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1260
points
| 5.10c | ★★ Maximum headroom | 34m | Skaha | ★★ Very Good | Sun 2nd Jul 2017 | |||
Despite a fair bit of bird poo this had great moves
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1255
points
| 5.10c | ★ Geritol | 20m, 2 | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Thu 15th Jun 2017 | |||
Felt easier than flying circus, nice crimps and edges up a dyke, yay, face climbing!
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1254
points
| 5.10c | ★★ Quagmire crack | 40m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Tue 13th Jun 2017 | |||
Quite tricky in places but I found 2 knee bar rests
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1253
points
| 5.10c | ★★★ Centre Street - with David Gray | 45m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Sun 11th Jun 2017 | |||
Long and subtle
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1252
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Apron Strings | 45m | Squamish | ★★★ Classic | Fri 25th Aug 2017 | |||
Dave led P1, I led P2 as start of Great Wall. Great opener.
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1232
points
| 5.10b | Fear of flying | 15m | Skaha | Don't Bother | Mon 19th Jun 2017 | |||
Was meant to be doing a 2 star 5.9 warm down and ended up on something like 11 d- that will teach me to let Dave look at topos
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1231
points
| 5.10b | ★ S-M's Delight | 25m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Wed 14th Jun 2017 | |||
Rpt apparently
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1216
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Exquisite Corpse | 20m | Lake Louise | ★ Good | Sun 20th Aug 2017 | |||
Quite nice finger crack, but getting very cold
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1203
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ Mr. Clean | 150m | Devils Tower National Monument | ★★★ Classic | Wed 17th Sep 2014 | |||
Sustained thin hands. Ouch
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1195
points
| 5.11a | ★★★ Eerily hanging out | 35m | Skaha | ★★★ Classic | Sun 24th Aug 2014 | |||
Don't wear a helmet
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1195
points
| 5.9 | ★★ Cold Comfort | 20m | Squamish | Average | Sun 11th Jun 2017 | |||
Not a 5 star route as the book says, kind of ok finger crack
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1184
points
| 5.10a 5.10a R | ★★ Paradise Lost | Yosemite National Park | ★ Good | Mon 20th Oct 2014 | ||||
Just first pitch which is 5.8 or so
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1172
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Thin Slice | 30m | City of Rocks | ★★★ Classic | Tue 9th Sep 2014 | |||
Very nice crack, racing the impending storm. Off to Wyoming.
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1163
points
| 5.9 | ★ That's Enertainment pitch 1 (Unknown) | 20m | Mount Lemmon | ★ Good | Fri 3rd Jun 2016 | |||
Climbed better than it looked.
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1162
points
| 5.9 | ★ Triple Play | 17m | La Milagrosa Canyon | ★ Good | Tue 31st May 2016 | |||
Good down low, convenient chains for descent
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1153
points
| 5.10b | ★★ Sod Buster | 25m, 3 | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Sat 26th Aug 2017 | |||
Did this and finished up a 5.9 on Stooges I had done before. My shoes have got stickier, or the angle has gone down, these slabs feel easy now, when I used to be terrified.
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1150
points
| 5.10b | ★ Toilet block face | 15m, 3 | Cirque of the Unclimbables | ★ Good | Wed 16th Aug 2017 | |||
A bit dirty, but fun route on big potato holds- after getting rained off LFT second go
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1141
points
| 5.10c | ★★ Valhalla Direct | 50m | Mount Lemmon | ★ Good | Fri 3rd Jun 2016 | |||
Good old skool. Wanted to do second pitch but ran out of time
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1134
points
| ★★ Straight Shot | Red Rock | ★ Good | Sat 4th Oct 2014 | |||||
More like second with aid for a little- impossible to get gear out without 2 hands.
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1129
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Slap and Tickle | 50m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Sat 10th Jun 2017 | |||
Great climbing, though not sure how it's meant to end, bailed to the right
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1129
points
| 5.10b | ★★★ Centrefold - with David Gray | 120m, 9 | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Thu 8th Jun 2017 | |||
Pretty cruxy at points, nicely led by Dave while I snuffled my way up behind him
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1128
points
| 5.10b | ★ Crystal Ball | 22m | Squamish | ★ Good | Mon 5th Jun 2017 | |||
Blowing away some cobwebs, nice to be out climbing at 8pm after sleeping all day
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1083
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ South Ridge - with David Gray | 350m | West Kootenays | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 7th Jul 2017 | |||
Led from lunch ledge onwards. Heavy snow season, so although it was painful seconding with 2 sets of crampons, boots and ice axes for the first 4 pitches,very happy to have them on descent. The rock was dry, the weather great, the route spectacular and the camping below the ridge in a stunning location
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1076
points
| 5.8 | ★ Jacob's Other Ladder | 27m | Squamish | ★ Good | Tue 13th Jun 2017 | |||
The exit after quagmire crack, not that good gear, climbs the dyke with 2 bolts
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1075
points
| 5.8 | ★ Rosebud | 18m | Squamish | Average | Mon 12th Jun 2017 | |||
Working on weaknesses
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1074
points
| 5.8 | ★★★ Octopus' Garden in the Shade | 20m | Squamish | ★★ Very Good | Wed 7th Jun 2017 | |||
Survived the walk up on jelly legs, the climb seemed ok
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1074
points
| 5.8 | ★ Call Any Vegetable | 20m | Squamish | ★ Good | Wed 7th Jun 2017 | |||
A #3 size crack, fortunately a slabby one
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1067
points
| 5.10d | Karma crack | 15m | Vernon | Thu 7th Aug 2014 | ||||
Escaped into the 5.11d to avoid the offwidth sections
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1063
points
| 5.10c | ★★★ East Buttress | 360m, 9 | Yosemite National Park | ★★ Very Good | Mon 20th Oct 2014 | |||
Did crowded hour variation. And some others. Do the new rappel descent from top of 10 th pitch. An hour of simul rapping.
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1053
points
| 5.10c | ★★ McCarthy West Face Variation | 80m | Devils Tower National Monument | ★★★ Classic | Wed 17th Sep 2014 | |||
Led p1, rapelled after 2 pitches. great
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1045
points
| 5.10c | ★★ Gang bang | 35m | Skaha | ★★ Very Good | Sun 24th Aug 2014 | |||
Nice corner with one tricky section
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1017
points
| 5.10b | ★ Asgard | 50m | Mount Lemmon | ★ Good | Fri 3rd Jun 2016 | |||
A quick lap before we packed up
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1015
points
| 5.10b | ★ Unknown Flake Crack | 20m, 2 | La Milagrosa Canyon | ★ Good | Sat 28th May 2016 | |||
Racing to beat the sun
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996
points
| 5.8 | ★★ Sphinx'ter Quits | 25m, 4 | Squamish | ★ Good | Wed 14th Jun 2017 | |||
Rpt
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990
points
| 5.11c | ★★★ Aberdeen crack | 17m | Vernon | Thu 7th Aug 2014 | ||||
Fingers and narrow hands, a strenuous layback
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978
points
| 5.10a | ★★★ Assholes of August | 30m | Skaha | ★ Good | Wed 21st Jun 2017 | |||
Would be 5.7 at Squamish
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978
points
| 5.10a | Sainthood | 15m | Skaha | ★ Good | Mon 19th Jun 2017 | |||
A different way into stc.
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