Ascents in Mermaid Avenue having Beta

Roof was a little trickier than it looked.

Fine stone near the top.

A fine short climb at the grade.

Ok climb, quite easy up to the roof. Some iffy rock.

Fun start as long s the holds stay on, which they don't look likely too. Really good rock and much easier climbing above.

bit dicky getting to the arete and negotiating the dodgy rock. nice rock and climbing in top half

Greg the sandbagger ... fun climbing with the grade being an average of the difficult start and easy rest of the route

Good fun after the bushy chimney, which would also be fine with a few less bushes

Greg might still be a sandbagger. Probably harder than 4 but how do a really tell at this grade? THe odd iffy rock but we were probably doing the 2nd ascent

Quite a strong start.

Took two tries to start!

Loose block half way up was the main excitement.

So-so.

Gear collection.

The dead tree leaning against this climb makes it awkward.