Ascents in Shadow Glen having Beta

Enjoyable, once you find the crux hold

Definitely a bit trickier than the climb to the right due to more sustained crux section. Nice climb though, and the additional bolts make it much more attractive.

Greasy and sketchy, also where are the chains?!? They were there last time, but now invisible, so used the tree sling.

Bouldery 18 🤔 took 2 pieces to make it comfortable.

Neat climb for the grade, give it a burn

Great climb! Get on it!

Will be back for this high ball. Unique crux 👌. I found a 0.2 Z4 was enough to protect the last wander to the chains, but not needed. Only 1 working shot today, finger issues seam a thing if the past.

This is a fantastic beginner's lead. Dale climbed up it as his second ever trad lead and placed around 10 pieces of gear. I went up after him and placed the rest of our rack - 23 pieces in total I believe (if stacked nuts count as 2).

Probably would have gone for it with a bit more gusto had I not been climbing on a single half rope. Really nice rock and movement and movement.

A tad bold to the first bolt, but worth it!

Pretty punchy!

Probably should have just gone for the onsight, but I did a toprope burn first after climbing Kitch, then sent first go. I didn't bring the right size cam for the top, so ran it out to the anchor. For reference, a yellow C3 probably would have fit.

What a sequence! A long one too. Super thin!

Nice! A shame about the high first bolt (super high!). Would get more traffic with one lower.

Really nice the whole way.

Needs new anchors

Needs new anchors

Need new anchors

I think this was harder today than last time I climbed it....but I still really enjoyed it and did some cool slabby/balancy moves.

Cruised it. Happy to tick this one. I tried it, as a beginner and failed hard.

Worked it out

Looks like a nice little sportclimb warmup from the ground! Oops! About 10m above the last gear had to downclimb to the last bolt and pull up some wigglies and cams to finish it. Some of the placements in the top section are unusable because of the very dodgy rock - making good slots few and far between, but adequate (ish).

Nice and short

Cool moves. Will lead next trip to Shadow Glen

Very nice climb - felt kind of easy for 20. The start was a little unnecessary I thought, wiggled a wire in that quickly became redundant. Would be such a shame for someone to fall off such an easy start, maybe a single bolt at 5m would solve it for everyone?

hasnt had any traffic for a long time, slopey footers and top out were slippery and dirrrrtyyy. real good though.

Overlooked this route the first couple times, its actually pretty cool, Nice n slabby and thin in parts.

Done this 3 times now without any protection at the bottom each time, makes it more exciting.

I find clipping the 2nd bolt to be the crux for me, with fun balancy moves. The rest is pretty cruisy.

My favourite of the routes on the wall, nice and thin up over the bulge. Good fun!

Ok climbing on good rock, but not much worthwhile gear for almost 15m off the ground.

Nice climbing. Quite runout in places but fairly easy.

Great! With Graham.

Felt easier than Flame 'n' Sparks, more straightforward at least, except for the silly high first bolt.

Bit slippery after the rain today (and I'm not used to this type of climbing). Need to learn to use feet properly again.

Nice enough but such a high first bolt!

Nice enough but such a high first bolt!

Decent enough warmup

Pretty big climb to get to the first bolt, a little freaky until its clipped.

Great moves, stupidly run out though.

Nice climbing, poor bolting.

thin climbing but nice moves

thin, balancy, committing but good

Keep messing up that crux sequence.

Ezy pezy, nice holds & moves.