Ascents of Sandman

First fall on trad gear!! First climb back in 3 months! Road to 30: day one week one

Hit the deck when I fell trying to place the second piece - not good but survived.

Nice jams at the top

Tough 14... Highly recomend small red peanut sideways as first bit of gear about 3-4m off the ground.

Very tough for a 14 (especially the start) and quite runout. Only gear possible before the major horizontal crack was a couple of poor RPs!

Love the crack at the top, wish it were longer.

I really should remember to tape my hands. Trick moving over to crack..

first crack...