Ascents of Chasin' the Shadow

Two shots but couldn't work out the low crux, the rest it great.

Good linkage- warmup

If I was going to send this was the shot. Felt amazing on this headspace was perfect beta dialed don't know how I managed to blow it I was floating.

Technically furthest but no way enough juice. Just to add, I love the name of this climb and description was stoked it has a hidden meaning!

Felt very hard

Felt achievable and awesome - So stoked on this route!

So close to onsight!

Argh, this route is cursed. So good, but so hard for me. Two more days of attempts - I refined beta (for the middle and top) and found the knee bar (quite a good one, high tension but hands free). On my second last attempt I broke a hold off as well - I'm fairly sure this is the first hold to ever break off this route in the 20+ years since it was put up. Unbelievable. It doesn't change the route, but meant I had to revisit my beta for that section. My last attempt ended literally with the chains in my teeth. Argh. Until next time.

Kept on mucking up the foot sequence at true top crux! Awesome to send this stellar line

Second try

Fantastic climb

Hard!

crux is not very nice

Climbed all the difficulties, will take a lot of work to put them together.

Total of 6 days attempting it. Beginning with not being able to do the first or last moves nor being able to link any bolts. By the 6th day I was able to link to the gaston in the final boulder problem even though the rock was slightly wet from mist. Eventually the mist thickened and it became unclimbable - I left and went skiing.

2 laps. More endurance, moves not to hard just the linkage.

Hundreds of shots to build up the required power enduro. Starting to feel quite good now, and it's home time tomorrow - boo hoo!

4 shots. Put it all together nicely and 4th shot in particular had some rad linkage at the start... then it all went downhill. Stoked to have the bouldery start dialled and linked, but I'm not sure I'll ever have the steep route endurance to tick this. Mega line.

Boulders crux

I caught the shadow!! :0

After a couple of laps early in the week I deemed this to pumpy to go down but as the week progressed I got more confident and surprisingly stronger. Day 6 on, second lap it all came together and in the that magic way didn't even feel that hard. Road trip tick, yeeha.

Exploratory lap. All the moves will go, but linking them... That's a pipe dream for the moment. Nails past the first bolt, then slowly getting easier until the final climactic moves to gain the lip. Pumpier than hell, with tricky footwork and a great deal of core/compression necessary to hold yourself into the wall. I see why this is so popular. One for another day, perhaps? Good send by JengA.

A couple of laps sussing out the beta, got to the 7th bolt on my second RP burn. The top crux is easy off the sit but pumper on the link. Awesome.

just a muck around, the moves after first bolt are bloody NAILS. rad funky pumping above.

Done 1997

Done 1997

Fairly alright. It's still warm though =s

second trip there. great route!

got sick of chasing...

Stocked! A little pumper. the jugs..

Great fun. Such an amazing crag.

Forget power... I wanna be a Pumper!!!!!

Yay, i can do the move every time now. Fell after the last bolt 4 times So close it hurt... Hopefully soon.