Ascents in Zig Zag

Susatined. rebolted so not scary or run out now.

too thin. numerous rests.

hard section at bracket, not much for the feet there!

sharp down low, sandy up high...lovely!

Intimidating! Monstrously steep. Clean to the crux move (turning the lip) and then I got scared! A few rests to figure out the crux move, then clean to the top. The lower section is scary rock and gear, but as the climb improves so does the gear. Delicate technical climbing under the roof and arete to the waco, then exposed strenuous crux. The vegetation isn't as bad as it looks. You can thank me for the chalk on the hard-to-spot crucual hold to gain the crux. I WILL be back for the send!

Alright, so maybe it was a bit ambitious to try and tick this in the afternoon after ticking Grasshopper. With 3 hours daylight left I launched up this. Fell off at the main crux (and chucked a spaz after a particularly painful, gear-ripping fall which damaged my glasses). Found my sequence and went to the top. The roof of this is WAY more vegetated than when I tried this last 4 years ago (and I pulled out mountains of shrubbery back then too!), and I managed to rip out a tonne of vegetation on lead (got pretty pumped too!) mid-roof. This is a great, intimidating route with a hard and committing crux, but the first 6m of death shale is bloody horrible.

All quite continuously thin and challenging, but probably very doable ONCE the draws are on (badly positioned carrots on a slab of this difficulty and thinness are hideous)... with the exception of a single utterly desperate move that I couldn't QUITE link into the full crux sequence, but didn't want to spend too much time trying. These sorts of thin slabs are so worn these days, that they are surely grades harder than they were when the FA was done... Maybe another day. Definitely feels possible...

Balls hard at 3rd bolt If you're a slab master that likes to pull on half pad sloper edges then get on it.

BETA SPOILERS AHEAD -> You've seen the photos, you've heard the stories: this line looks amazing. The moment you see that corner leading into an exposed roof traversing into the abyss you are left with mixed feelings of intimidation and excitement. The next moment, when you are tied in at the bottom staring at the first 3m of choss, that has no doubt changed forms since the first ascent, it leaves you with second thoughts, and third thoughts. Once I built up the courage (read: stupidity) to swim through to the first solid hold, the corner and roof are pleasant, besides the jungle feel of reaching around ferns to place gear and to dig out holds. It just adds to the climb's uniqueness, I suppose. I reach the end of the roof (gr 21-22 till here, minus the choss start), place two bomber pieces, and reach round for what I was always hoping to be a jug. To my surprise it was huge. But, a jug to no where. Without the crucial pieces to protect the next section (#0.5 BD) and the prospect of my rope running over the arete and slicing in two (https://tinyurl.com/ycues8g3), I embraced defeat...I lowered down, to then jumar back up and aid past the crux to free (read: flail) to the top in approach shoes with entries catching on the shale ledges. I suppose if you worked out the crux, heightened your risk tolerance to welcome choss piles of death and don't mind jungle fever, then give it a go!

Had been saving this one for far too long , and Vinnie was psyched for it so I joined in, somebody had to clean it after all ...

Enjoyable climbing up to the roof that lulls you into a false sense of difficulty before suddenly turning up a notch at the lip ... bit of flash/cleaning pump and bad hand placement caught me out on the first shot but then climbed through ...

Great route, will be back for the full tick soon ..

Hard then harder!! Difficult clips and a cool home made looking peg banged into a drilled hole. Not great in the hot afternoon sun and you need to make sure you're on top of your slab climbing game!

Mere mortals will prefer to bring the aid ladders and a handkerchief. Afternoon sun is definitely not the beta

broke a hold off below the ring. Left a good side pull edge to get onto arete! Might be easier now.

should have taken the mad taffy traverse to the arette, pumped at the anchor.

Still no luck!

Dogging deluxe. Up by any means possible.

pumpy at the end of the day.

Hurt my ankle falling on this one. Tricky finish.

Kinda destroyed me, but maybe I was having a bad day? Pulled up on one move after falling on it several times. Just not my style of climbing but a good experience overall.

part of mission: arete climbing

Super route. Well bolted, got stumped after the huecos briefly. Found the static finish and an alternative throw finish

stuck the low crux but broke a hold. Don't worry, there are plenty of better holds around at that point.

Next time!

great clean grippy rock... fun climbing

Hard - a long person's climb. The crux v balancy and technical.

dangerous until rebolted. great moves in a short climb. lower offs would be good.

Dirty, needed rebolting

2nding moneith & simey carter. awesome & pumpy, felt harder than 21, but maybe thats from 48 hours of no sleep & a massive hangover?? ill be back to lead this one

sustained, steep and airy! Don't do what I did and hang around for ages looking for rests: there aren't any!

Nice Sandbag Bundy, harder than 20!

First section only. Almost got it clean, but got stuck at one spot in the middle