Ascents of L'Ecaille du Dragon as trad by David Gibbs

The burliness of pulling up and around onto the flake is not my style of climbing. It makes this seem harder than 5.8 for me.

Always a tough, burly, lead. Wish I'd brought my #4 for after mounting the flake.

C4 #2, #3x2, #4. Then something smaller for near the end -- maybe pink or red tri-cam.

Some quite burly moves on the lay-back around the edge of the scale, but everything was there, and generally what needed to be done was obvious. Fun, but obvious. Still, a hard lead for a 5.8.