Ascents in Klus - Balsthal

Guidebook (Plaisir Jura) says 6a+. Cruxy.

Repeat, in approachies, as a cooldown.

Crux at the mini-roof.

Very hard for the grade. Some loose stuff in the crumbly yellow-orange zone!

Repeat. Three pistol squats, then friction to overcome the mini-roof. Easy to the top afterwards.

Super nice! Quite sandy, though, and much loose stuff around the last bolt, though, could be cleaned a bit more to be safe.

Very very nice. Technical, smeary, uncomfortable in the beginning, then compression/laybacking afterwards. Great climbing. 6a in the 2017 Plaisir Jura, which I find accurate.

Unfortunately I found this very dusty, dirty and crumbly, and with questionable rock in the beginning.

Very nice route. Some sweet limestone edges and jugs. Start is a bit dirty and crumbly.

Really good. Some slabby moves if you stay very true to the bolt line.

Started with this, quite nice. Bolt spacing gets longer towards the top but the climbing always resolves into easy moves.

Ladder-like until you have to scale the overhang, one hard move there. Uninteresting.

Climbed this as a direct extension of Fury. Went well until I fell, pumped out of my mind, at the end of the diagonal roof. Had to take one more time at the last bolt. Great route but hard to onsight and requiring bicep power endurance.

Somebody should bring a knife and cut out many of the super old slings in the route. They are not to be trusted and unnecessary anyway as the bolting is good.

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