Ascents of La Cha-cha des Félins

Ran up it a second time to clean the anchor.

Really fun route! Some good ledges to rest make it much easier.

Pretty run out towards the end. My partner and I both had real mental challenge.

Hadn't climbed it in a few years... a fun lead.

Led this route after climbing it once. The first bolt feels high, and when I fell just past it I almost hit the ground: belayer might want to tie in. I wasted a lot of energy farting around with the first bolt on my second attempt, and had to stop one more time after the fourth. That said, I guessed this route at a 5.8 or 5.7+ when I toproped it without knowing it was a 5.9: did that knowledge sketch me out? Not sure.

Thought it went easy for the grade when climbing second. Things got different when I led it. Big but flat hand ledges get increasingly smaller as you go up. The mantel onto the big ledge is a welcome rest stop: even on lead I felt like the slab at the top went at about 5.6.

Climbing without a guidebook, we thought this was a 5.7/8 with the slab at about 5.6. Still, a good climb for getting the lead head screwed on

Enjoyable for its grade (5.9-).