Ascents as various tick types as sport by Paul Frothy Thomson

Quite fun... Especially if you try and climb it only using the corner (down with face holds!). I'd call it hard at 17... but for a hidden hold that makes the bulge quite easy. The chossy slab towards the top detracts from it quite a bit.

EOD Repeat to get the draws back. Much more exciting after you've been climbing all day.

Repeat. Tonnes of fun thought-provoking jug-hauling leads to a great double-crux at the end. Went pretty easily this time.

Repeat. Hard-ish start, then cruisy climbing into a spicy finish with exciting fall potential. The finale felt easy this time (when compared to my original tick), but remained thoroughly airy and enjoyable. Soft for the grade, but maybe the extra point is for committment?

Repeat. The best warm-up here, and enjoyable enough to make it a fun outing in its own right.

First pitch onsight, a bit dirty, but fun climbing with quite a few moves to the grade broken up by rest ledges. I decided to try and link the 2nd pitch into the climb into one giant 40m pitch. Sketched out on the crux move at the very top, fell and landed back on the belay ledge... ouch. Went up the 2nd pitch again, and got to the top, but after placing the draw on the anchor I grabbed it to clip rather than risk a bone-breaker back onto the belay ledge. Still calling it a tick but in bad style

Okay, I suppose. 2 moves to the grade. Sandy slopers... Hmm...

Repeat. Despite no chalk or any signs of climbing, this one still felt easy for the grade. Makes for a surprisingly good warm-up, though.

A full pitch of this would make it awesome... As it is, 4m of "the money" moves, and 4m of doddling makes it merely a novelty.

Led entirely on trad gear as a warm up. Makes it way more pumpy, and bloody scary to get to the anchors (no gear for 5m on slightly overhanging thin moves). Definately easier and less UNIQUE than Negative Funk, but not bad.

Onsight but for the first moves.The log you used to use has broken, so now any ascent is literally off the ground. Nails start to high first bolt with cruxy moves and worrisome groundfall potential. Then nails sequence to high second bolt where any fall will also be a messy groundfall. After that you've mostly safe, though the climbing remains really tough, somewhat wandery, and scary. As per below, there are NO rap anchors. We made up a route to escape this climb. Masochistically great climb!

Brilliant, but tough as nails for the first half of the climb, and incredibly likely groundfall potential most of the way up. Cruxy until you get to the flakes at half height (maybe I should've stick clipped the first high-hanger), and delicate thought-provoking climbing up amazingly thin flakes that move as you climb on them. Great... But don't fall.

Onsight but for the first 2m of climbing (slipped off at the start). Awesome, technical start leads to quite sustained climbing all the way to the top.. Brilliant!

Repeat. On the second lap, I've decided that the climbing moves are more difficult than the other climbs around it, but the sequence is significantly easier to read, hence the presumption that it feels easier (despite being more technical). Still great, though.

2 laps. Rather hard start into moderate runout. The climbing eases off once past the second bolt, but the entire climb is good fun.

Repeat. Not too hard, but quite fun. The top section (after the crux) doesn't really add anything to this climb. Crusher Dana fell the length of the route (from 3rd bolt while clipping) and landed on my shoulder... She just didn't want me to get it too easily. =P

2 laps... First climb back using BOTH feet after a month off with a busted hamstring... I just won't tell my physio what I've been doing. My endurance has definitely suffered.

Mmm... One footed slabbing with a torn hamstring. Something of a novelty route, but a bit of fun to be had here.

Surprisingly hard and quite run-out. Climbs well-enough, but some sections of dubious rock, and no traffic means no line of chalk to follow... At Shipley!

Repeat, this time placing the draws for a friend. No longer feels cruxy, just generally pumpy awesomeness.

Stoked. As a warm-up today putting on the draws. Still didn't go easily (I mucked up one sequence and had to deadpoint through it since I couldn't sort out my hands), but it still went SOLIDLY. Not as awesome a top section as Hot Flyer.

I'm surprised that this isn't more popular than the normal Pallet of Pies route, it's certainly more consistent. Maybe some new carrots/rings to replace the manky ones at the top of the route? Kind of soft for the grade, and more of a novelty route than anything serious, but I still had fun.

Something of a passive nemesis for me from when I first tried it 2 years ago. Still feels hard, but went really easily second shot. Nicely run-out at times (not that you could stop to clip even if there were extra bolts), making this route more of a psychological route, than a particularly difficult one.

Warm-up. Seemed easy for a slab at this grade, to me. Hard start and funky finish, with an interesting traverse to make it worthwhile.

End of day awesomeness. After the semi-sketchy traverse (thread and 0.4 cam to protect), this climb is a piece of old-school brilliance. MUCH better than Building a Better Mouse Trap. The first half is thin, high-stepping crimpy goodness, and the second half is interesting, obscure moves between jugs and through roofs. In it's entirety its unerringly interesting. Rope drag is a real problem (even with long slings on the appropriate draws). A 70m rope JUST reaches the ground on rap.

Second shot. Long, adventurous, and really steep. No particularly hard moves, but some bouldering, some footless traversing, technical slabbing and a powerful finish make for an epic pumpy monster. Found 3 no hands rests to break up the pumpfest, but took a second shot to find where I'd misplaced my tenacity. Rope drag isn't as bad as you might think. Tonnes of fun.

Repeat. A pretty good warm up, due to this having so many awesome rest stances, you never really get pumped. Definately more fun on repeat, when you can just enjoy the moves without worrying too much about the tick. Great!

3rd shot. Nails start to the 3rd bolt, then 21/22 above that with cool moves and no real rest. Exciting finish. Second shot I used a ticked hold to the left of the second bolt which I later decided was off-route, necessitating a restart. 3rd shot I followed the traditional -harder- sequence.

Don't follow the chalk line to the left and its just a solid, interesting, technical slab. If you end up on the chalked good holds to the left you end up in a dangerous position from which there is no recovery. A good warm-up with the opening sequence sorted.

Onsight from the 2nd draw, took me 3 shots to get that nails starting sequence sorted. Not hard from the 2nd draw up, but quite committing. Run out in places, and there are a few spots you REALLY don't want to fall on this one.

Repeat, original tick was a Flash. Classic 20, and a hell of a lot more fun now that I'm stronger. No hard moves, and a few rest stances along the way, but nicely technical from start to finish. Really good.

Warm-up, with my fingers as cold as they've ever been despite all my winter climbing in the Blueys. Not too hard, but really interesting climbing in a pleasant variety of styles. Glad to get on it this time, as it's always been wet when I've been here in the past.

Repeat. My original tick was a red-point. A bit of a give-away at 22, with only one hard move, but the climbing is so cool that it doesn't matter. Other than the potentially dangerous start, this is an inspiring piece of climbing.

Yet another repeat. Came over to be a cheer squad for Crusher Dana, and couldn't resist a lap since the draws were already on.

Second shot, so damn close on the onsight! Awesome slabby lower section which doesn't give itself away easily, then pumpy and technical top section. Two distinct cruxy sequences right before the final bolt, and I had to fight tooth and claw for the tick. Stoked to get this as a final objective met before I leave for Kyrgyzstan next week. Great climb.

Delicate start, and technical finish, with awesome climbing in-between. Now to work on the true finish to this climb...

Repeat. Not too hard, but with one surprisingly thin move between the second and third bolt. Pleasant, but uninspiring.

Done in the growing dark with a headlamp. Looooong and brutally sharp. No real stopper move, but consistently thin, delicate, technical and thought provoking. Classic marathon slabbing, with a bit of a sting in the tail.

Stoked! Felt more 22 than 23. The holds and footers seem to appear just where you need them, never more than you need and never too few. Sustained and a bit heady, but not as hard as I was expecting. A real classic face climb, with the most desperate moves right at the top. Bring a #1 (red) Cam for between the first and second bolt.

Second shot, had to figure out a sequence for the start moves. On the Send shot it was onsight from the 3rd bolt to the top. Really hard, sequency, start until you get to the third bolt, then it gets progressively easier all the way (with a few 22 and 21 moves thrown in for good measure). Really long, and bloody brilliant. Had tonnes of fun on this.

4th shot of the day... Sick as a dog and delirious to boot. The missing hold makes the crux move a bit more desperate for shorties, but definately doesn't change the grade. Cruxy start, cool heel-hooking traverse, and slightly desperate move to pleasant crimpy finish. Nice one Neil.

Climbs like a bolted trad climb. The final moves to the anchor is the bizarre surprise crux, and the end of my flash attempt. The others did the final moves as a desperate thrutchy mantle, but on the send attempt I came up with a stylish sequence that avoids a mantle and makes the move less cruxy. Would be HARD to onsight if this is your limit. Really cool, with chimneying, stemming, steep campus-esque traversing and the final desperate crux.

My onsight attempt went to hell when I ripped off a footer and took a nice upside-down fall. Not too bad climbing, feels harder than the grade, but climbs well for a warm-up route.

So tired in the dark at the end of the day, I giggled my way through this one in delirious weariness and the most hideous lack of style imaginable. Not a great route, but not too bad. A bit of a novelty, really.

Can I call 3 bolts of new climbing (between the routes either side of it) an onsight? Really good climbing on great rock and with some challenging moves. Hard at the grade, I think, but worth the effort for a lap. Funky start, technical middle, desperate move to the crack, cool crack climbing, and challenging mantle finale. Glad I chose to get on this one before we headed out for the day.

Only really one hard move, and still soft for the grade. The climb gets more pleasant and interesting as you get higher up. The finish is quite pleasant slabbing.

Two mantles and three rooflets. Big jugs and not too hard, but UGLY to watch and not too pleasant to climb. Not bad though.

Went pretty easily today. Good friction and the knowledge not to try and static the last move (just pull through it quickly) makes it pretty easy. Still lots of fun, with a challenging technical start, pleasant straightforward slabbing in the middle, and a somewhat desperate finish.

Bloody brilliant, but still feels nails hard to me. Absolutely classy technical slabbing with a malevolent sting in the tail. Classic for a reason!