Ascents in Cascade boulders having Beta

Reached high to lip instead of staying in the crack, felt a bit cheaty but safer. Fall needs lots of pads to do cleanly

Thought this would be a lot harder

Super pleased to finally get back to this, and happy it wasn't hard as we only had 2 pads. Def got the heart beating, Carol got a bit daunted but got it second go

Yus!

It's funny that this was the first thing we imagined on this rock, but then got so obsessed with the traverse we only did this today, and still only as an afterthought. But it is an obvious warmup for the full traverse, and is still a worthy problem in its own right.

Pure finger licking good chicken wings. Left side in, tried right side with no luck

Yet another sick little problem that appeared out of nowhere on rock that I've scoured many times. Lots of core and bicep action, very happy to do it first go

Sneakers

Strong possibility I did this a decade ago with Bruce, but seems lots in time. Really great problem with delicate feet

Weird x move

shit

Sneakers, great fun

There are about 4 other similar slabby problems along this wall. All go at about the same difficulty

really good arete palming

Fun!

Sneakers

Easy layback then mantle but still cool.

In sneakers

Sneakers

Easy fun

This cleaned up fairly nicely into a pure crack problem without the features to the left which we thought would be needed. Could be a couple variants. All over in 2-3 moves but still good fun. Still not sure I'd want to solo boulder it.

A bit of a banger one move wonder. I think the grade is debateable depending on your dimensions, but otherwise its definitely a neat little climb.

A bit reachy for shorties.

Super smooth rock, very cool

Nearly slipped to my demise post mantle 😂

Super fun, with just the right amount of difficulty over the water

Scouted and cleaned it from the top for the first time and it looked so hard and scary from the top looking down. But it's a pure gem and quite easy

Very nice

I thought this would be really spicy but the left side is too close. A wild hard sit start could be possible off a little crystal pocket

I remember being freaked out watching Ben on this but this time it just seemed like no big deal looking up at it. You absolutely do not want to fall but it might even be a V0.

Great warmup

Thought it would be more on the arete and very sketchy fall, ended up quite sane straight forward

Cruisy, a longer sequence than much of gara. Should be a few other problems just around the arete too

This one's very good

What the HELL! That felt hard. Cool though

This is a great little find

Apparently I didn't use the good hands, or the good feet, or any footers

Did this thinking it was The Landing Zone because I didn’t have service and couldn’t remember what it looked like or where it was hahaha. Still a nice problem though

More or less a nice extension

Juicy

Super fun

can't remember when but did this when working The West Face

Hiking through, need to come back in winter

This just looked a bit silly at first. Okay holds to a point and then nothingness beyond. After a few flailing attempts Dr. Phil uncovered a new footer which I found to be quite useful. After plenty of psych I followed Al on the send train, but only just - the difference between sticking the finish and not was a couple of mm's of my middle finger pad. Good times!

Line of the area. Just beautiful.

Such a nice line! Perfect height for a bit of spice. Had a foot hold break while making the move to the lip on a roped attempt which scared the shit out of me and put me off, but calmed down and sent next shot off rope. Slightly intimidating with one pad and no spotters..

Took a few goes to even begin contemplating the beta. A really cool problem.