Ascents in Battle of the Bulge Buttress

Fourth shot

Second shot, right start

Second shot, right start

what an epic! pumped out on thin hands and baggy fingers, couldnt see gear at the top and got a head torch passed up. Getting really good at aid climbing

Three goodish lead attempts and one clean top rope

Very soft rock, kind freaky to see how much it wears out here

Gross, need to refine my offwidth

More layback

Another hangdog .75

Sick layback!

fell even lower on TR

i blame being exhausted from north sixshooter. didn't bring enough gear (or at least slings), got spooked at second pod after wasting a tonne of energy un-stepping on the rope. might try to return with more gear and better rope management

when the guide said 'hard for 5.8+' i didn't think i was going to retreat from the warmup. got through the #0.5 section but slipped/fell/spooked at the #1 section

Pretty happy with the progress on this one ! Went from a desparate dog to feeling pretty solid! May have went if I had a rest day ahah

Sharp locks 🤠

Tried to layback the whole thing & I was so close

Probably 5.9 as a layback ahaha.

Couldnt turn the roof on fists. Once the aid train starts its hard to stop! Freed a couple sections but really full cred goes to the no.6s that pulled me most of the way. Especially the one i chocked in the 5 section and had to send 3 tr heros up to eventually free it with a brick size rock. Shane tr sent with hallies pink trackies on. A sight. Tony had spare zip ties to replace the wire-trigger attachment shane blew out trying to free it from the wall, so i could sheepishly return the stuck 6 to its rightful owner in the campsite, having severely lowered its life expectancy. Maybe we leave the OWs for the walls where they have to be done rather than electing to do them at crags, at the expense of perfectly good cracks of tasteful sizes.

Shane hoofed up on lead and set a toppy for all us plebs to go rip the skin off our fingers (on this and digital readout). Would be amazing to climb this well! doesnt feel like you need to be super strong, just a really good creek climber. The roof goes surprisingly easy (i still stuffed it). Despite my floundering, it felt cool being on the same piece of rock as in the stanhope arcteryx vid ive watched a million times.

yay

Too hard for the first route in Indian creek for me. But good for practicing some lay backing.

Called 'The Mayes'. Was too hard for the first Indian Creek lead - at least it felt hard while leading and placing gear. Felt much easier on toprope and after deciding to layback the first part of the crack until you can get in decent handjams.

Cruiser than expected but would be something else on lead! Flashed the first crux transition and finished the bottom section with 2 sits.

Then a loooong sit to work out the roof. Pretty pooped on that one but it went. Double kneebar. Rad.

Repoot. Warmuup.

Didditttt.

Toppie, but I’ve learned so much on this climb that I’m actually pretty ok with that!

Almost did it this time. Slipped moving past the last bad lock.

Note to self: hitting bumholes with alternate hands is way less pumpy than swimming through them… make of that what you will I guess 🤷‍♂️

One hang on the flash. Better rests than Swedin, but also like 3 Swedins stacked on top of each other.

One hang. This is becoming an oddly ringlock focused trip and I only got here lol. Why?!

Hoolyyyy where the feet be at?