Ascents of 50 year itch

Great, fun trad adventure. Good gear, enough dubious rock to make it exciting. Would be a mega classic if it weren’t for the last two pitches of licheny rock and bushes. Overall well worth doing if you’re looking for an easy to moderate trad multi.

Well, it's pretty average indeed. Starts off the same "block" as Rutger Hauer, straight into a chossy corner. But enjoy it as it only gets worse! The anchor for P2 is actually just off to the RIGHT half way up the chossy chimney of doom - two carrots on a small stance just outside the chimney (Che belayed off the ring bolt on the LHS of the rooflet, essentially pulling the crux of P3 with 40m of rope drag). P3 is probably "the money", however I think drag could be a problem. P4 has a few solid slab moves for an 18 and some pretty exciting scrub scramble sections up the top. And P5 is literally death on a stick - it might be worth moving the belay to the bottom of P5 (only 1 ring to belay off though). It's only 5m or so of climbing, but wait until you do the grass mantle... I'd take at least a single rack up to BD5.