Ascents in Candy Mountain

More fun than I thought it would be, particularly after an already very long day of climbing. It's hard to hear or see the climber from the belaying positions, so it could be useful to have a third party follow the climber with a phone and facetime with the belayer. Mostly to gauge the slack in the system. Even better would be to trail a second rope around the bulge until Banana King, then start clipping the second rope (untie and drop the first). Could do this with two belayers, or just one (belayer ties off first rope to move to second belay point). In this scenario seconding would require two belayers if you finish at the top of Happy Pants. Having a full time spotter for the sections close to the ground is a luxury but it definitely couldn't hurt.

Rope drag is a nightmare. Simul climb if you can. Really fun route though.

missed a key hold on the right at the crux.

with the good hold at the crux it was much easier. still a little tough move in there which was nice!

Fell below the third bolt. Probably one of the best we did for the day.

Chossy rock at the start, but good otherwise.

this place is side-pull central!

Lots of loose rock

The hard move is cool.

Slippery.

Papa Smurf felt a bit harder to me though the cruxy moves on this were much lower. Really nice pinch just above the first bolt. Being tall may help!

First 20 on lead.

Pretty easy, with an odd second clip because I went left.

Decided to give this a go on TR to clean the anchors

Couple of moves, but a little awkward rather than awesome. This and PS had zero chalk; love that!

Really good climb. Not too bad once you figure it out.

Took a ground fall on this one

Took a ground fall on this one

Barefoot ascent didn't feel like a 20 at all.