Ascents of Black Light as Tick

Trip Report (Ripped Report): Jumped on this pearler with Yimin this morning. Clean run lasted 1m before ground fall number 1 off the first layback.. managed to desperately clip a marginal microcam deciding to punch on to the first ledge. Guess who ripped the cam out and took another ground fall.. This schtickhead. Turned out the spot was perfect for a halfnut (ya weasld me ya baastrrd). Proceeded to quiver up the slab section before getting shut down by the entire thin hands crack.. aided all of it. Punched the bulge free though. Had to drop the tc pros off the top of the climb for yim cos he didnt pack his shoes.

I find this incredibly hard and insecure due to a) poor crack technique and b) my hands don't go into the crack so it's all marginal thin hands.

Quite bizarre ... in a good way

August 2011. Had no problems with the bouldery start, but struggled with the sustained laybacking/fingerlocks. 2 Rests.

Ross Nick Ben

with ben