Ascents in Bergisches Land as Onsight

40m and interesting all the way! You don't expect such gems in a quarry. Though do expect some black balls of daddy longlegs here and there. Thanks Kiki.

Supercool crackdihedral testing your calm. Thanks Kiki.

Go for the jugs over the big boulder. The end is a hard slab or you can move over the corner

Vague line with a thin crux and loads of rope drag. Technically onsight but it felt like the rope drag helped me in places. Maybe more enjoyable when you use long draws for some bolts.

Kinda sure it was this one we did. Will see next time.

Good, technical climbing at the very top. Bottom half quite awkward and slick. Not that easy with freezing fingers! 5c at least.

Very incut, slippery jugs that are a little bit too good to be true. No obvious line.

Okay warmup. Didn't really trust the footholds on the left side of the corner.

Destroyed by traffic.

A slab with a rather thin crux and an odd diagonal dihedral.

Really tricky sloper-arête. Footholds are mostly smears. Some crimps to save you. Worth 6b+ in todays shape, I think. Definitely harder than "Weg der letzten Helden".

100 times better than it looks with nice, techy moves! The topo-description is accurate – adventurous and airy. The rock is still quite fresh. Good friction compared to other climbs here! I linked the two pitches. (Revolver draw for 1st anchor, 2nd pitch: unclipped 1st bolt and alpine draw for 2nd. Still some rope drag from the intermediate anchor.) Passing the final bulge, my first idea was to break out to the right but there's some vegetation/ small tree stumps blocking the holds. Managed to climb almost straight over the bulge in the end after downclimbing two moves. Grading this is a little difficult. The moves are not so hard but the climbing is sometimes awkward, in parts not so obvious and requires some confidence. I'd say solid 7, alpine touch.

A slab/ arête but the apparent line is not the route unfortunately. The guide does not clarify either. I traversed right at 5th bolt instead of going onto the slab on the left of the arête but that's more like 6c+/ 7a and you end up climbing on horrible brown rock. After watching Basti, the easiest line seemed to be to escape onto the slab between bolt 4 and 5.

First multi-pitch of the year as a little bit of practice! 2nd and 3rd pitch on good rock, compared to other routes here. Technically possible as one single pitch but the rope drag would probably be crippling.

At the height of the left anchor of the neighboring route, you will have the option to climb along the left side of a slightly protruding rockfeature. According to the guidebook thats the easy version, graded 4+. I agree with the grade of 5 here. If you decide to climb on the rockfeature straight up the route is graded 6-.

My mental lead limit atm, found an awesome knee bar midway!