Ascents by Ben Dickson having Distinct route

Really excellent climb. Good sustained climbing with decent-enough rests, and easy to place really good gear. I didn't take quite enough quickdraws so ended up protecting the last section with contrived C4 #0.1 cam placement direct-clipped, but other than that, climb all went really smoothly and felt pretty easy. Long arms probably help on the roof traverse (I could reach directly to the good side-pull, whereas Amy had to balance over first). Marking as onsight although I did briefly see someone climbing it sometime last year while we were setting up an abseil.

Picked without guide book ("that looks nice, lets try that"). Was feeling really crappy this morning; devoid of energy I got up to the crux before bailing, but is a really nice climb, want to try this again next time. Got up to the crux with one rest, including a quite unnerving placement before the crux moves (awkwardly unclipping nut-binner with wrong hand while balancing on somewhat-positive undercling). Section before the main crux can be done easily with a really high step. Lowered and Amy led it with a few rests and a decent fall through the crux (resulting in a very stuck DMM offset nut - couldn't budge it with just nut tool and carabiner, but hopefully someone can persuade it free with a rock or something). Shame the top 1/3rd backs off so drastically, and the section between the ledge and the main cave is largely unprotected - would probably be better climbing this to the first ledge, belaying, then traversing and finishing up Dracula or something.

With Uni Club. Think this is the line on the arete just left of Digital Input, kind of similar to Mt Olive

First attempt at the harder left route. In the dark, without using head torch, for some reason.. Wasn't too bad, hardest bit was I kept losing ability to find one specific hold with my left hand near the top - three goes later, finally found it..

Lower part was easy once I started using the right face for footers. Got up to the jug below the easy climbing but couldn't be bothered with the top-out as it was getting hot. Shall probably finish this next time I'm there