Ascents in Serpent as Hang dog

Second try cleaning the route and it still felt hard!

Getting outta that cave is contortion albeit a super fun problem. Still tricky after that too. Very cool climb.

Can get through the crux without much drama now First brunt I wasted abit of energy at the end of the traverse placing my heel hook where my hand needed to go And 2nd Burn I was too zoned in and went for the slot forgetting to grab the pinch block

Had two burns Had two falls at the Gaston dead point and then working out the mantel move after the traverse

Ended up finding better foot beta for the Gaston dead point

Connie's pretty bad raining all day

Tricky move to read. Will be a lot easier on round 2

got to the anchors- will she slip off or grab the draw? draw was grabbed lol. wacky and pumpy!

Really nice

Nails hard going right at second. Can't get the feet high enough to support the sloping rail at third. Might have to try chimney next time. Big powerful last move. If only I was a little more flexible.

Solid

Hard

anchor chain/maillons look a little rusty. Interesting movement

Lost steam pulling rope out to clip the anchor… next time

High committal moves coming out of the chimney, really cool sequences. Pumpy and rewarding. Rest x1.

Yeah well.. must have missed something. Couldn’t find the right sequence

Hopefully your quite short or quite tall

A bit slimy at the top and a bit of a wrestle, but has some cool moves

No use of the left good edge. Climbed through it with dyno to right of fang, stuck it but did not realise it was so fat. Was expecting jug so did not plan feet. Left heel works well

Fang beta works well. Stepped wrong foot though normal crux and no juice left after a long week

Came out of the cave nice and smooth and in control. Then flopped around like a fish out of water at the fourth. Wasted too much energy and pumped myself out. Got the 4th clipped and powered on up. I went wrong hand up first to sidepull below jugs for clipping the 5th. Too pumped and matching there did not seem to work. I went different feed as where the rope runs on lead covers my foot placement. Took the spill

Thats a hard 22! Exhausting trying to find a way to get out of the cave.

Managed to get into position for rotating out onto the face with the little bits of beta I remembered. Left in the mono and right in the low two finger pocket (probe) and shoulder/arm across the dent in cobra. The rotation went clean but crushed my ulnar nerve with pain in right ring finger. This placed me too low and I forgot about the left jug and was just thinking kneebar to stop the pain. Too low. Take.

With the finger still numb I gave the probe a miss and used the higher pocket while not as nice it is kinder on the finger and allows for easier transition to palming the back of the cave. This is were Dad and my beta differ. This allows for a comfortable transition to the face. I think this time I forgot to bump pockets for easier gain of the ledge.

Powered through the save and onto face. Gain the ledger and come unstuck just below 5th bolt. I could hold on but not get feet to release any hand to move to jug. This prompted me to work from the ledge pocket up to chains several times. Using layback method as it allows for better use of the feet and allows for moving straight into the jug.

Re-familiarise the beta

Honing the beta

Was out of juice by the time I got on this. Felt like the hardest climb I've ever pulled on to. The moves are all there up to the blank section