Ascents in The Amphitheatre by Sam Lancaster

Repeat

There is a swallows nest halfway? up on the right (perhaps off route, I didn't go there).

Repeat, pleasant climbing

Was going alright till my foot slipt before the mantle. Got the top half clean after the fall. Lots of insecure feeling smeary feet and enjoyable technical moves. Perhaps my favourite Ti point sport climb to date? I'll be back to work on the red point.

Had a fall on the first go.. (went the wrong way I think) fun warm up. Clean 2nd go.

Repeat. Maybe hard 18? Not sure.

Repeat. Really like this climb, offset brass nuts are very useful as most of the cracks flare a lot, bit hard to protect well otherwise imo. I would say its a 19 climbed the way I do going just to the right at the crux (but still using thin crack). I can see how going directly up the crack would be much harder.

Some how managed to Z clip the first two bolts (so close together) so wasted energy there. Had a good fight getting to the 3rd bolt clipped and trying to pull the crux but peeled off. Keen to have another burn on it.

What Shaun mistakenly read from the guide as a nice 15 warm up was this haha. Wasn't feeling particularly inspired for trad but seeing Shaun climb this convinced me too. What a way to warm up to leading again after 2 months away from rock! Lots of flaring cracks so offset nuts were very useful. Seems easy for the grade but may have gone slightly off route, hard to tell. A small offset cam would have been nice for the crux! Didn't use any of the bolts.