Ascents in Camels Hump by Dave Scarlett

Very thin at the start, but gets a lot easier after the second bolt. Stick-clip highly advisable!

Jugs. Definitely a lot softer than the claimed grade.

Tree to the left of the boulder seems to have gotten a lot bigger and is seriously encroaching on this route. Still looks possible at maybe V1-V2 with a sit-start.

Frighteningly sparse gear through the corner at 1/2 height. Managed to get two cams in, a red and a blue, where the crack opens a metre below the hard moves there, but neither were ideal placements. That's definitely the mental crux, with the physical crux being the top of the finishing flake.

Packs surprising value into its short length.

Felt much harder than 14, with a bouldery crux between the first two bolts. Maybe 16?

Nice and long, with a slabby, bolt-protected crux passing the obvious roof. The only runout section is the grade 15 start shared with Blind Sox, after that there's plenty of pro.

Very thin on gear. Micro cams useful for both the slab and the arete.

Tricky slab moves around the second bolt.

Finally ticked it. A long quickdraw for the 3rd bolt definitely made that clip a lot more comfortable.

Surprisingly good, after I gave it a decent brushing. Somewhat similar crux to Wishful Thinking, but more prolonged, harder, and further from the bolt. (But still very well protected.)

Very nice. Bouldery start then thin moves on the face. Unfortunately the final bolt isn't in a great position, as the crux is below it, and is quite run out from the previous bolt. By the time you reach the final bolt, the difficult climbing is all over, and there's trad placements available anyway if you want protection for the easy finish. If that bolt were a metre lower, then it could protect the crux.

Nice, but felt a little little awkward or contrived, as the easiest climbing tends rightward, taking you across the arete, but the bolts force you to keep moving left.

Fell on the second bolt a couple of times while trying to figure out a good clipping position for the 3rd bolt, which I didn't find in the end. Think double ropes or a long draw would be good next time to reduce the consequences of a clipping fall.

Warm up. Lovely and cruisy. Had never noticed before just how dodgy the bolt is. Looks like an 8mm (or thinner?) thread with a bolt plate fixed to it!

Ridiculously reachy and bouldery start, going from wide left to wide right, to wide left. Still a little delicate getting up to the 2nd bolt, but eases from there.

No way this is only 21. 22 more like it. Gets incredibly blank around the last bolt(s)* and I had to pull on a draw to get past there.

Steep, crimpy and pumpy start leads to juggy horizontal crack, then crux above getting past last bolt, and finally a moderate slab above with a big flake available on the arête.

Gear: Cams around BD#0.4 size for the first crack, possible #1 in crack above that, and finally a finger-size cam or small-medium nuts for the flake on the slab.

* The bolting is very confusing. The final bolts are a fixed hanger near the arête, and a ringbolt level with it 1m to the right. The left bolt feels much easier to get to, unless you're doing 'Sluts Alliance'. There's also a hanger way out left and below the first ringbolt, which could be for a left variant start, or for 'Biker Mice From Mars'. Stick clipping the first ring and climbing from below it offers a nice start.

Thought Camel's Hump would be ok on a dry day in between two rainy days. I thought wrong. The crux finger crack was wet, slimy and horrible.

Thin, delicate, and bouldery, on small crimps and a super-sharp finger pocket. Clipping the second bolt is difficult and has definite groundfall potential. Recommend climbing on double ropes (or folding a single in half) to avoid that.

Finally had an attempt at the onsight... and didn't quite make it. Fell on the 3rd bolt, then rested (probably unnecessarily) on the 5th.

Bouldery start becoming easier when clipping first two bolts, then crux moves getting to and past 3rd bolt. Excellent rest at 4th bolt, one difficult move getting up arête from 5th, then jugs to the top.

Fell on the first bolt a couple of times before figuring out the moves.

Surprisingly nice. Very bouldery crux moves past the first bolt, then thin, slabby and crimpy moves to finish. Consensus of 6 climbers who attempted it was that it was grade 22, or 23 if you're short.

A very nice warm-up route. Maybe one of the best on the cliff?

Very nice. Gets harder towards the end, but the bolts are very closely spaced there.

Probably the last trad ascent this route will see. Managed to get a nut and a cam next to each other in the flake about 8-10m up, then nothing until another cam about a meter from the top. Carried a wire brush and had to clean every hold on the way! Should be a nice easy route now that it's clean though.

Tough start but gets easier the higher you get.

The sit start provides all of the difficulty. After that it's jugs to the top.

Apparently I'll climb anything that looks like it might offer a good hand jam.

Ridiculously hard start... Maybe more like grade 19-20 if you go directly past the first bolt? Easier off to the side.

Nice and consistent, easing off only at the end.

Had a go at the sit start but just didn't have the strength left to pull up on the tiny crimp below the stand start jug. The stand start was quite easy though.

Fun, but a little contrived, just because at any point you can go directly up at V0, as for 'Snot'.

Jugs. Some of them a bit sharp.

Nice, but difficult to determine which holds to start on. Hard start gets much easier after reaching the first deep pocket. Wild mint growing underneath the climb made this the most delicious smelling boulder I've ever encountered.