Ascents in Odin Head

Excellent crack with a kick in the tail. Mostly 1 & 2 cams down low and a couple of small cams for the top

Good hand crack to start and interesting moves on to arete. Rope got stuck on abseil down front face so make sure your knot is over the edge before descending

Sick-as line of (mostly) hands! Great pro throughout. Gets pretty tight in parts, so good for those with smaller mitts.

Slabby balancy finger section at the top was spooky for me. Definitely my anti style. There was probably better pro than a uncammed black totem and a shallow #4 nut

Only climbed P1. Heard P2 was rubbish.

Not one, but two hand jam roofs?! Sweet as!

Super cool crack line, but probably a touch soft for 22. I really shouldn't be onsighting at that grade.

Other thoughts... hated the chimney below the second roof jam.

Middle of the route is incredibly sandy and chossy for a 3 star climb, but fortunately the rest of the climbing makes up for it.

Warm up repeat. Actually climbed the route correctly this time (see prev ascent shenanigans). Discovered it was full of carrot bolts. Did not bring bolt plates. Used nuts instead.

The opening section was cool, but the long ramble to the top really didn't add anything.

Engaging and interesting, if a bit dirty. Did it as two pitches, which may not be ideal, and the top pitch with only one #4 is indeed exciting

A quite varied climb! The overhang start and the off width/chimney section are pretty engaging even on top rope.

Worked moves, now to find placing gear beta

It goes! It's a very good climb. Did it with 1 less #1 than last time.

Good to come back to send it, glad I had loads of gear. My hardest trad send yewwww

Start was hard, slipped out of the jam trying to gain the headwall a couple times. Would've kept working it but we were running out of time. Great climb otherwise (other than the squeeze chimney).

Note for future self: bring 3 #1s, only need 1 #3, 3 #2s would be nice but not strictly necessary.

Managed to forget about the traverse to fixed gear and decided to head into the corner and accidentally discover a new line.

Sling the large tree. Run out the chimney. Find a #3 placement at just the right time. Run out the off-width. Find a purple placement in a horizontal break. Scramble up some dirt and sandy rock way too run out above the past gear. Sling a shrub and pretend it'll hold a fall and scramble to the belay tree.

Not my best big brain hour.

Crag classic for sure! Amazing line with fantastic climbing and jamming that goes from hands to fingers. P2 didn't look too appealing.

Great finger crack on P1 and solid lead by Aurora! P2 has a few fun roof moves. Used 2 #4.

Absolutely epic. Very secure hand jams and then thins out, need to come back and lead this. Didn't do p2 as didn't look great unless you have loads of small gear.

Good hand jams to an actually fun and easy traverse and then quite exposed. Missed a couple of Carrots and ran it out but the top is easy enough.

The finger crack at the start is pretty thin and hard to get good finger locks although excellent gear. Got pretty pumped towards the top but fought the fight and miraculously sent it. At first i thought the chimney was quite intimidating but actually climbed pretty easy.

Why is Odin not that popular?? Cracks here are all time!

Forgot boltplates so used nuts on all the carrots.

Beautiful crack ranging from perfect hands, to tight hands, to fingers. Consistently 1s for a fair portion. Felt hard for 19.

Top pitch has a fairly hard undercut start to get established in the corner then east ground with barely any gear until the top out. Probably not 18 and probably only 15m. Next time I would rap from P1.

Linked as 1 pitch. Lots of .3s needed for the "finger" crack (which is the crux - it's not actually big enough for finger jams). I also used the corner and stepped on some vegetation since I couldn't find anything on the face to step on.