Ascent in Fire Wall

Done in good style: in a single push from the ground up, freeing as we went. Though the day was proper arctic, and this thing gets no sun, the frigid conditions were crucial to sending the first pitch (which is extremely sustained face climbing, with a few gnarly boulders - I had to power-scream my way up it for the Send).

Pitch 2 is the money, with a rad exposed bouldery start, then oodles of chugging along up funky features with some patches of bestest rock evah. Pitch 3 is weird giant tufa blob jugging, but the last few metres aren't great. P4 is a hard slab. P5 is awesomely technical face climbing that goes on forever (and has a very baffling crux). P6 is harder than it looks (due to having no footers at the grade), and I only just kept it together for the send at the end of the day.

This would be a proper "3-star classic" multipitch (for the Blueys) but is marred only by Pitch 4 being pretty average, and the fact the most of it is on a semi-detached pillar means only the first 3 pitches feel exposed. It'll probably never get repeated, but I regard it as worthwhile.

Freed Pitches 1, 2, and 3 on lead. Seconded (clean) Pitches 4, 5 and 6.