Ascents in Supernaut Face

Stoked! The best of the climbs on Supernaut face. A full grade harder than Supernaut, and 1/2 grade harder than Into the Void. Very sustained all the way to the top. Bouldery start, then some technical thiness, to a desparate roof-turn, to more technical, wandery thinness, to a steep water-polished technical bridging finale up an overhanging V-groove, with a final easy (but exposed) roof to turn. Memorable! Might be nails 24 for the ultimate dialed red-point attempt, but 25 for onsight.

Nice route, varied climbing thats slightly tricky to read.

Gave it a mega onsight attempt, which ended high high high when I encountered too much moss on one of the final sequences. With a quick scrub it woulda been fine, but such is the nature of onsighting, I guess.

Despite appearances, this has a lot of independant, sustained technical climbing, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Up and down climbed the starting moves several times before I committed to some super hard cranking (for short people). The hard climbing is over pretty quickly but the traverse keeps you fighting and the sustained seemingly endless face climbing to the anchors keeps you focussed. Climbed this in super strong winds and slight rain. Awesome route in stellar location.

A brutal warmup. 3rd shot, I guess. Fell off at the 2nd bolt on Onsight (didn't find the hold in the seam)... Came straight back down and went up again immediately, and fell off again. Came down, rested, then went to the top, Onsighting from where I fell up. Damn. Very cruxy bouldery start, Easing to about 22 at the 5th bolt (through the funky technical traverse), then 20/21 up the long, exposed, thin arete. A brilliant excursion to the top of Bare Rock.

Nice line! Almost benighted on the raps after spending so long working this out.

Nice long route. That upper slab keeps you thinking

Took a couple goes to get off the ground.

Weather came in so had to bail. Could do it with a couple of shots.

Awesome climbing all the way in an amazing position. 3rd session over three years, worked out the the 1st three bolts, had a rest and went all the way to the top. Faffed about on bolt 4 too much and had to battle mega pump all the way.

Some punch through the first few bolts then superb techy climbing. Loved it.

Thought I was on Supernaut... whoops. Fell off at 4th bolt, epic flash pump warmup through the steep dynamic opening moves. Lowered back to the ground from there, then went to the top onsighting from the 4th bolt up. Powerful throwing at the start, then a technical corner featuring a gr23 second crux, and an awesome face finale up the headwall.

The start is rad and the corner is a cool feature. The top face is crusty and a bit meh though.

I went to the top of the cliff and needed around 21 draws (I ran out).

Highly recommend finishing at the midway Supernaut anchor.

First 25 flash. Fun punchy start

The best sport route I've done. Engaging and powerful start, technical corner climbing and the most orgasmic slab to finish. Heaven on a stick

Really cool, the crux is like climbing on a 30deg woodie.

Long draws a must for drag.

A quick Onsight ascent helping Andrew Martin get his fixed ropes in place to commence working the (gr26) bottom pitch. Very exposed position on the lip of The Great Roof, with technical thin face climbing on great rock that starts easy and gets harder all the way. A worthwhile pitch... but probably too much mucking around just to climb this pitch on its own.

Great warm up for Supernaut, good climbing and position.

2 laps. 1st lap was just piecing together the sequences for Andy (there were moves on this that had never been solved before), and while I did all the sequences, I didnt work anything. Then Andy encouraged me to have a proper redpoint lap for the First Ascent 15min later (he was a bit over this climb), and despite making mistakes and forgetting sequences I did it with just a single fall on a wet hold (before the final hard sequence)... Doh! Hard to get to. Intimidating and committing. With 6 bolts of tough bouldery roof climbing to a no-hands stance. Then easier (23?) climbing for 12m through exposed, steep terrain taking you to the lip of the Great Roof. Utterly spectacular.

FFA. Very steep and technical start to good rest. Crux moves through ridiculous steepness follows to a stance in an airy position. 23 climbing up corner with a spectacular traverse to a stance in an airy position. 23 climbing up corner with a spectacular traverse to finish chains under small rooflet in the corner. Suggest stick clipping the second bolt.

A great adventure that covers some pretty outrageous terrain. Just the one go as i was absolutely cooked from the whole trip. I’ll come back for this next time i’m here. Good job Andy.

2nd shot. First clean repeat, I think. Mega exposed climbing through huge blocky roofs on immaculate rock. I giggled my way up this on the send (singing Lovecats, for some reason).