Ascents in Antre du Dragon by Kate Hunt

Sent it this time! A beautiful climb.The lower flake is a really satisfying series of stemming moves followed by an undercling, smearing traverse and a burly pull up onto the top of the flake. The second half moves up a slab - not hard, but with a nice flow to it.

Felt a little easy for 5.9 but still has some really nice balance moves.

A really nice crack climb with some variation and a good flow.

First climb of the day... a beautiful route as always. An easy 5.9 but with some nice technical moves.

The trickiest bit is trying to stem around a bulge: makes you think and trust your feet and a couple of small finger ledges at times.

I came SO CLOSE to sending this! And then a foot popped. Burly, bold climbing along the short traverse: fun stemming lower down. And a spectacular feature to be climbing on.

What a gorgeous climb. Lots of moves that are just committing enough to be interesting, with some good holds placed so as to make it more about brains than brawn. The crux is low and we found three different ways through it: all of which had to be creative.

It's even better on lead.