Ascents in Central Cascade Mountains

Onsight solo to get up to the Prayer for a Friend finger crack. Did the 5.8 corner at the top.

Supporting Adrian on the FFA of this 20 year old Fitz Cahall project. We climbed the first five pitches to the crux on October 5 with Adrian leading everything and both of us freeing every pitch. The climbing turned out to be way harder and more scary/dangerous/loose than either of us had expected so this took more time and energy than expected. Adrian tried the crux pitch unsuccessfully and I had a go on TR (also unsuccessful lol) and we summited then rapped. The next day (October 6) we hiked up and soloed the West Ridge to access the top crux pitch. Adrian sent second go after we jammed to Gold Lion by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs which was a pretty unreal moment in my life and climbing. Supporting your friends on things that mean a lot to them has got to be one of the coolest things you can do.

Hard and utterly brilliant the whole way. Do this rock climb.

Does it even get better for the grade?

Unbelievably classic.

We asked our friends if it was hard. They said “No, it’s just fun.” They lied. What they should have said was “Yes, very, but it’s also great fun!” We got sandbagged.

Exceptional! Pitch two really is one of the best. And that final 5.10 pitch, oh boy.

Not very easy.

Hard! managed to get off the ground but spanned out for the left hand slap. pretty cool bouldering is hard. So much effort to move 3-4 cm....

reslly cool undercling moves very powerful

Couldn't get my ass off the ground. Seems like the sort of problem that "fits" a very specific height and build hahaha or maybe I'm just shit

Real REAL fun

Real hard

Real fun

I tried this less than some 4s in the area but I'll take it, grading is weird haha

minging crimps in direct sun? Yes please

cool

Streno undercling

I like low balls...

2nd go

Classic friction highball. Why do I like shit like this?

Also more like 7-8m than the listed 5 and probably gets V2 purely for the height rather than difficulty.

Another classic flash or hospital kind of boulder. Really awesome though, all the hard moves are low, then super fun juggy liebacking to the top and a 3-star downclimb to get off. Mega classic.

Radical hugging up an awesome steep prow.

Classic lowball on mega jugs but miserable feet. It's like a 60deg moonboard but half the height. Dyno to the lip and tuck into a ball so your legs don't drag on the pads, awesome!

Fun jugs

The undercling start on this is not jugs

This thing is nails