Ascents in Psychosomatic Wall

Fun climbing with a punchy start. The challenge set is to establish a direct start and eliminate the current 2m rest from the ground.

What a bottler of a boulder. Amazing how often you walk past a potential classic. A great battle for the end of the day, providing plenty of laughs and a little bit of spew.

Man oh man what an experience! Thing thing was such a find but I wasn't sure where or how it would finish. After we all had a few goes unlocking it bit by bit I got to the far right fantastic side pinch and then prepped to grovel my way up and out of the chimney. I fought and wrestled and thrutched and thought I was off a few times and then finally back my back pressed high and dry and was basically done and then ... slid out. Gutted! Utterly exhausted and a dry mouth wreck, had a gulp of what in hindsight was waaay too much fluid and then felt much worse. Spent the next 10 mins retching. Meanwhile Ben sends it and they're egging me to get back on it while I feel like death. Then finally I have a couple vomits of red poweraid, and after a few more mins I'm good to go, shoe up and, this time actually using some technique instead of brute force, send it! Stoked with the send and feeling elated I then take 2 steps and sink to the ground retching again for good measure

A genuinely and metaphorically, categorically sick day

After a few goes it looked like this thing might be way too staunch. Micro beta sorted it out, little far right side pull, lean left to chip and very careful match, then power through the slopers and up to the easier stuff before gravity realized what you did. It's hard to judge how many goes when you get shut down on the second move, maybe 5

Great route with what looked like some tricky gear placement. The first two-thirds of this line is sustained climbing. Will have to get back to this one and try the lead.

A 10 year goal finally attempted! Aided, cleaned out some dirt, worked it and then got it clean on top rope with Ben. Red point will have to wait. Back when I was a bumbly I swore if I did this I'd have to leave, and now I'm leaving so I had to go do it! Was actually a much more interesting sequence than I thought.

Hard start committing &sustained