Ascents in Smith Rock State Park

Need a another shot at this one.

Need a another shot at this one.

Small hand and foot holds throughout the entire route. There is no crux, the route is consistently hard.

Put in a .4 and .5 cam before the first bolt because the bolt is quite high. There is a clear crux move for me: bumping the left hand with bad feet to an absolute jug. The crux is quite high above the last bolt, but the fall is safe.

First try was on toprope for working the moves. Will try in lead tomorrow.

Climbed it again while putting in the quickdraws and twice more as the first part of the full route.

Two more tries today. In first try I had to get the beta in again. I did not remember much from yesterday. Then I sent it . Super proud because it involves some big bolt distances and a dynamic move to a good ledge. Before that is very nice climbing on good and not so good pockets (finger holes) and crimps.

My skin started hurting again on the crimps in the upper section...

Really nice route over two short roofs and otherwise on a vertical to slightly slabby wall. Decided to do the second try on toprope because my skin hurt. In the first half, almost every move felt like I had to let go because it hurt, on the second half, I had somehow adjusted and didn't feel the pain anymore.

Nice extension. I enjoyed it more than the part below even.

Nice route, but it is hard to try the far move in the second roof in follow mode, because you swing out and cannot get back. So I did not do the part in the second roof

Great route! Figuring out the beta is super fun. Technical moves on small handholds.

Awesome moves, quite un-Smith like.

Pumped out one move before the rest. Had a GREAT fall. Biggest I've had in a while haha

Hard stemming all the way to up!

First 12a flash at Smith ytb, super nice. Maybe not classic Smith style, hit the concensus crux and suddenly felt at home on the small but positive crimps. Classic.

Tried the extension and took a squeeeaaaaaler.

All bricked up and nowhere to go. A nice day of sampling some harder stuff tho

Thought this was nails but still learning the style I guess

Awesome and unlikely movement

Got all the moves this time but Jesus fuck this thing is hard

Some of the most cryptic and consistently interesting climbing I've ever tried

So hard. wtf. Super humbling

Will I ever not dog this? If this is 12a then everything back home is soft

Awesome, puzzling, vertical-dyslexia inducing.

When I first tried this I thought maybe first or second go….then proceeded to not free any of the moves, not free any on top rope…my ego didn’t want to long term project a 24…but here I am. Today made some actual links. Linking everything seems daunting. Thin, thinner then anything I’ve tried pure face, no jugs to retreat and shake, insecure, minuscule feet, ten foot moves to one hand move from one painfully sharp crimp to another…

Took a lot of work there was nothing powerful just thin insecure climbing top to bottom

Still hard but can do the moves now

Dog x 3. This thing makes me feel like such a shit climber lol.