Ascents as Flash as trad by Sam Lancaster

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.

Nice moves in the 2nd pitch! Climbed 1st pitch of Scoopage and 2nd pitch of this climb as one long pitch. Clipped anchor and crux bolt but found good gear so didn't use 3 of the bolts, not sure they are all needed.

Fantastic engaging climbing, might be a classic if the start scramble to the real climbing wasn't so blocky. Quite thin upto the ledge then much easier, great gear- brass offsets and bomber red C3. Would have been an onsight if I hadn't read prior ascents logged here doh! Solid for the grade imo.

Really cool, engaging route. Easier to the first bolt than expected, this route has two cruxes. Decently exposed feeling. Good variety of moves and gear. Small cams and nuts are very useful as are alpine draws. Rapped off to make cleaning a cam that walked easier, plenty of rope left with a 60m from the boulder we rapped from.

Brillant climb, stoked to finally do it. Doubles of finger sized cams useful. Great pro and some nice feelings of a little bit of exposure.

Nice climbing with fantastic views- highly recommended!

Great climb, pumpy on the legs!

What an experience! I finally got on this at around high tide when the combo of waves crashn and strong wind were threatening to drench my belayer (thanks Donovan) and added some motivation for me to get off the ground quickly! Not sure on the grade.. I'm not that good at jamming (as I suspect the majority who try lead this, why doesn't NZ have more cracks!) but getting better so tricky to know, not that it really matters. The sandbag of 16 feels kinda appropriate. Could have easily lost the flash as my arms got a bit pumped around mid height but I managed to keep it together, stoked on that.

Jason lead 1st pitch, I lead 2nd.

Easy climbing upto a nice hand/fist crack that widens towards the top. Great fun jamming the narrower half of the crack and some nice laybacking up the wide top section. Doubles of 4 or a 4 & 5 would be useful. Looking forward to leading next time!