Ascents in Canada by Vanessa Wills

Led an extended P2 and P4. Nice varied pitches, not a bad route to finish our trip on

It was ok for a black slab, hard at second bolt and sting in tail. A bit more traffic needed to keep the moss away.

Did this and finished up a 5.9 on Stooges I had done before. My shoes have got stickier, or the angle has gone down, these slabs feel easy now, when I used to be terrified.

There are so many right facing dihedral a in Squamish. This is another

I actually belayed half way after linking with lower pitch, but rope drag became excessive...... Another excellent crack

Not too bad for grade, nice tips climbing, starts under Stooges slab, 2 ledges down

Did it while waiting for Grub Street to clear of traffic, starts below stooges slab, 2 ledges down

Dave led P1, I led P2 as start of Great Wall. Great opener.

Dave led this as a 68 m rope stretcher as part of our Grand wall

Clean- apart from the aid sections and a pull on the bolt on Perry's traverse whose "reachy move" is indeed out of reach. Our 5 am wake up saw us first on route ( at 630) but were soon pursued by 2 teams

I can jamb!

One stuck nut needed 2 hands to hammer it out, fixed rope up the aid section, very strenuous

Had a rest as arms still flamed from hauling up the Sword aid section quickly then straight into this to prevent a traffic jam

Ok, you wouldn't want to come off the 10a pitch. The last pitch at 10 c was much better, which I led

One quite hard move through roof, though arm span may have something to do with it

I was to busy whimpering on slab traverse and run out arête with wind buffeting me to fall off

Led1,2,4, rapped down. Great climb

Did the climb in 4 hrs 15 min, simul climbing until pitch 8, then doing the rest in 4 pitches, and soloing off. Still a 7 hr + day with approach and 900m descent on ball bearings. Fun outing

First 3 pitches only at 11a. The offwidth is even good

Nice and varied with some long moves

Quite nice finger crack, but getting very cold

Reachy crux, came off first go, sorted dodgy feet as can't reach from decent ledge, lowered to lay down rest and did from there. We had a shuttle to catch

Nice hand jams.

I was a bit underwhelmed by this supposed classic, and argue point perp has way better arêtes. Scary looking bolts , dirty rock, but great outlook. I started up the 11 b pitch before traversing to arête, so we probably made it a bit harder for ourselves

The top pitch was definitely the best quality rock, good crux moves on 11a pitch, some slightly suboptimal rock quality in many spots, unfortunately the views obscured by smoke. Took us ages to get to start, picked a better descent line away from cliffs and trees. Massive bolting effort. Thanks to FA.

I wasn't having a fun time back on limestone

Long and not strenuous

Good moves, pretty average rock. Misread the wandery crux, Dave had to show me the way

Harder start, then easy

Easier and more bolts, a bit dirty. Single bolt at top

Took a couple of goes for the v- whatever start. It was the day after our first attempt at LFT and fingers and toes hurt

Too run out for me

Got more injured on this than anything else. Had 2 shots, down to one problematic move, but shattered my tips. Still got the beak photo though

Easy to set up, and more fun blobby holds

If it hadn't been our last morning and I wasn't exhausted this may have happened. Nearly there on my second attempt. Jamming gloves rule.

A bit dirty, but fun route on big potato holds- after getting rained off LFT second go

Dave did all the hard work with pitches 1,3,5. Good quality climbing and nice not to hurry. We skipped pitch 6.

Third time lucky. First go was after 9 days rain and it was very wet. We got to top of pitch 12 before bailing at 9 pm after starting late due to guys in front, at 7 am. Second go retreated pitch 6 due to bad weather. Third go went smoothly, summit in 12 1/2 hours at 6 pm and back to camp before the sun set. Amazing route, lives up to the hype

Waiting for dave to bring back insect repellant. Gotta keep moving

Warming up for the penguin

A bit dirty, probably easier than 10c

The seam needs a good clean out of moss before trying to lead this, but nice climbing up pebbles

Despite its wide nature, this crack/ chimney was very fun, with many climbing tricks needed.

Pretty easy except for one desperate reachy move for me with gear at feet

Just to first anchors as a warm up

Crimpy through roof

Not very hard, but put off by 10 kg of rock shifting with my toe hook, beware large plate. Under roof, it is going to go

Fun and good rock

In the end ignored the chalk to left and crimped like mad across bolt

Steep, chalk everywhere, some on crap holds

Roof at mid height is desperate. Second go.

Upper roof is nails.

Pretty juggy and not that hard

Nice warm up

Tried to do the start without using the big stemming box, a mistake

Hard first 5 metres, then sharp crimps

Polished and wanders, overhyped

Juggy fun