Ascents of L'Essence as various tick types

Stiff skineater... But should go with fresh skin.

Full value for the grade

Warming up and putting the draws

Failed to repeat, but still good fun

My favorite 25 ever (super hard for the grade). I worked out all the moves. Dreaming of putting them all together in one go!

Closer this time. I left it in one fall in the traverse after getting the crux and very excited to go back

Great route!! Weird funky start into easy ramp that quickly hits the weird reverse-grab undercling & pocket to crimps crux. Beautiful moves to the rail-mantle and more crimps, finishing to an easier runout finish. Will have to come back to clean it (before the sun hits!).

Got on to clean someone elses draws expecting to do it off 1 bolt, cruised the crux but didn't know the next sequence, was about to come down before trying different beta for the mantle which worked, will go next session for sure

Working go after falling at the crux - need a category for Alzheimers Brownpoint. ie Youve done it back in the dark ages on Trad its retro now but it was so long ago that you have no idea wtf you are doing anyway. better than I remember, or maybe all the recent ascents and the bolts have helped. Bloody good.

get to change this to a puppy. progress is cool and i only punted off the first clip once so yay

Hard to work and hard to read. Found my way through the moves after trying all combinations, pulling harder seemed to workout. Pretty classy climb

fell on the traverse after crux, weighted the rope at the clip after that.

first time linking from the ground to the end of the first crux and im super psyched on how good it felt - then realised i didnt have any beta sorted for the second OH WELL. still hyped on the progress 😎

Couldn't get the crux move. Have to span a blank bit to a crimp.

Dogged two thirds of the way up at the end of the day, bit of recon for a future visit.

Couldn't find beta that worked

LEe essioance

Shut down by the crux as expected but psyched to come back and work this some more

Onsight attempt went well, until I arrived at the undercling and got shut down

Wonderful line. Again, need to train more to come back and have a chance

Got to the top, but jesus the crux is awkward as hell, didn't climb it properly and ended up getting mega frustrated in the heat, had to clip up. Found the route hard to work aswell

got the crux! needed to crank final crimp! next time!

Did worse than the last time I think. With some beta and a plan I'll give this another go next time,

Decided it's a tall persons climb even though I couldn't hold the crimps even if I could reach them.

Stuck on the crux, nice moves and fun the deck.

Recon. Checking out the crux move, I think I can reach! Now to get stronger...

2nd session working on it in 1 year, feeling close!

Hard but could go.

Will keep trying.

one somewhat lame attempt with ultra thin skin.

3 solid atemps, one of which i fell at the first crux, got back on right away and linked both cruxes!, last attempt of the day fell on the last hard move of the route. SOOOONNNN

Another burn, another learn.

Short person's version: from pocket and underclink, feet high and wide. Left to sidepull crimp, right to round-spiky crimp. Top of "penis-hold" is good for right hand. Feet high for pocket throw.

Harrrrd crimps

A whole bunch of burns on the cruxy move after the 4th bolt - solved via YouTube beta but then too gassed to continue. Will definitely be back