Ascents in Blind Channel Crags having Beta

sandbagged

Enjoyable hand crack with cool holds on the slab above

First route of the day. Might have been able to lead. Was nervous about offwidth section.

Quite dirty. One awkward move at the start.

Moves off the deck felt super secure once I got the right jam.

One fall

Really stellar hands and fingers. Did it a few more times on TR afterwards for the pure joy of it.

Whipped in flash attempt

Felt slippery but very good crack

Got just past second bolt then bailed. Slab is hard hahaha

Awesome route, it could be longer!

Awesome wide crack. It felt quite easy compared to last year!

Very very fun, got a little scared coming off the ledge 3/4 of the way up for some reason but all went well and the gear was good so really nothing to worry about

Nicer

Nice

A tricky start boulder with some serious jamming. I hoped it would feel easy this year but it did not! Then a groovy corner with an alpine touch.

The route stays amazing. Very sustained with nice jams. It went better than my first go a year ago, but I still fell on a upper part

Excellent!

40 m climb, with a 60 m rope had to pull the rope mid-way and climb back up to the anchor of 5.8 (Magical Progression).

The rope can easily get caught in the crack on the lip of the bulge down below. both when climbing and pulling down the rope.

Slab is hard.

Took 2 attempts to figure out the right beta to pull over the roof.

Fun climb, looks more intimidating than it is once you figure out the beta.

I found the crux at the bottom to be pretty hard, but smooth sailing after that.

Last climb of the evening, feet and core were pretty tired. Went direct past black bolt at start, got the moves after quite a bit of trying!

Hard, couldn't do the moves past the first bolt

With a couple of slumps on the rope, pretty tricky at the start. Couldn't do the finish directly past the last bolt, had to go left of vague arete.

Not too bad

First climb back at Squamish, getting used to the thin feet again!

Clipped second bolt from arete, then lowered down and did direct start past black bolt on penji-toprope. Also pulled up some cams before the flake, as was planning to climb The Leading Edge, but didn't feel like doing the runout to the second bolt.

Little bit exciting in the middle

Second go.

fell once on the crux

2 laps

5.10a as per the guidebook

5.10a as per the guidebook

Chatted to the 84 year old man who has the first ascent on this route after I finished. He is still climbing and getting after it

Practicing gear placement

Not sure why its labeled as a trad route when its bolted all the way up