Ascents in Reed's Pinnacle Area having Beta

Had to take on the first go. Decided to leave the gear in and see how I went on the pink-point 2nd go around and it felt much easier. Perhaps I should have pulled the gear and went for a proper red point burn.

What a great line. Pretty stout for 5.9 and gets 10a in the guidebook. Some of the jams were a bit funky however the climbed was engaging the entire time. Loved it

Very quality route

I did read the supertopo description of p2 but was stoked to get out and climb so applied a healthy amount of cognitive dissonance and figured I could 'just sit'. nowhere near enough gear with doubles up to #2 then singles up to #4. all four hexes got placed. fought valiantly for the onsight until about halfway then was completely flash pumped. top piece of gear was always placed on lead until the final offwidth. not the first time i've been completely shut down by '5.9' but afaicr the first time i've had to pause part way through pulling up rope to dry heave into a bush.

I can officially crack climb

Burly but enjoyable off-width climbing.

Sustained climbing in the first half with what I thought were insecure hand jams.

Beautiful upper pitch.

Hard onsight. Cruised the top rope!!!!

followed Chrissa

with Lee and Chantelle UT

with Lee and Chantelle UT

with Lee and Chantelle UT

with Lee and Chantelle UT

Better finish to Reeds Direct than Reeds.

Led the offwidth/chimney pitch at the top.

TDLD linked p1&2

Classic clean crack

w/ 10a ow p3

sweeeet

with Mayfield

great jams

Mr Luck seconded in the nude - freak

one of the best pitches in Yosemite

Ist Valley climb

Did the offwidth 3rd pitch (10c) aswell. Awesome.

Preprotected.

Very pumpy

lead first pitch, my first trad lead!

This climb ends with a 5.9-5.10a offwidth that most people skip