Ascents in Somerset having Beta

Solid flash - big thanks to Oli for chalking up all the bizarre holds. Would be a hard one to onsight.

Beta Flash. Really unobvious, intricate and blind sequences. What a battle! Pumped out of my mind...

flash after Sam's onsight. burly crux but rest is chill

Quite chill and lovely, need to check the grade, Neil suggests hvs i think soft e1, but here is e2

Really nice route, my fav of the day. The crux is the on the top. Really close to fall a couple times there but miraculously stuck it, loads of grunting

Nice and techy with lots of rests

Really good route. It didn't feel hard for the grade. It seems that I have done it before but I can't remember.

I think I traversed to high so it was quite hard.

Confusing but good route. Probably the easiest in the crag.

Fine warm up

GOOD BUT BROKEN CLIMB, GRET VIEWS

A bit of fitness training

what a frickin awesome problem

FA, really enjoyed figuring out the the crimp traverse sequence

slap fall, slap fall, slap fall, slap woohoo!

nasty pockets

Cost some skin this one!

right hand slap for the top, not left. quality

Not sure if tiny underpull in crack left side of Arete is in. Would have been desperate without it.

Harder than it looks given you're basically already at the top when you're on the start hold 😂

Great moves but felt hard for a V5

Fun highball!

f'ckin hard!

SLAP!

Was supposed to be a warm up but didn't even flash due to mossy feet!

Slippery feet!

woohoo! Soo f*cking complicated! The crux coming back is just really debilitating. 3rd try today. 55 savage moves - love it!

FUCKING YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Now THAT'S a hard route. Absolutely tore it apart today. Not sure how much work this has taken. About 5 redpoint tries, but took me about 10 visits just to get the sequences sorted! THE EPIC IS OVER

awesomely hard and complex. 3rd try today. 55 savage moves - love it!

awesomely hard and complex, third try today. 55 savage moves - love it!

Done. Quality route. 3 work sessions to suss the moves, then got it first redpoint attempt. Went really really smoothly, didn't have to fight at all. Excellent focus and control, got to the chains before I even realised I had it.

Really powerful, devious, contorted, hard and excellent! Crux bulge took me ages to figure out a workabe sequence. 27 continously hard moves - awesome!

Very nice. After having done Chulilla, this went down quite quick. I did spend A LOT of time on Storm Warning Variation (Fr8a), which is not listed here, but never ticked it. The Variation takes the first half of Storming Warning (also share with Black Snake Moan and Brean Topping, 8a and 8b respectively). After the break it goes straight back into Chulilla (instead of traversing horizontally). As a consequence you arrive backwards in the crux of Chulilla. Probably makes more sense at the crag...

#2go

Not such nice moves going left to right, hard through the mid section bulges

Damn right!! 3rd shot redpoint, went pretty easy in the end after falling off the last move twice. Great route!

6b all the way with one tricky mantle at the top. The classical heartbreaking route...

Links Brean Topping, through the two finger pockes of Chulilla, then slap out right to the slopers on Prisoner...and finish up the last two bolts of Prisoner

Brilliant climbing! Second shot redpoint after having an excellent and rather long fall off the heel-hook and skin-fucking crimpers. Good to keep my belayer awake! Felt totally solid - awesome long, technical and bouldery sequence - the whole route's a crux!

Damn, this thing brutalised me. Felt easy on the actual send. Hope ya like dropknees - lots of em.

excellent! Great climbing, third try

Great route. Meant be hard for the grade, but well worth it

Meant to be easy for the grade, but he bouldery style didn't suit me at the time. It took me a good few goes Can pretty much be broken down in 2 two halves if you take the good rest at the break

Second try ez

Broken holds reported previously hasn't seemed to affect the route much, not quite sure what broke exactly (something quite big did break as I was there at the time), but I would not give this 7c because of it. Went second try after figuring out my sequence

Psyched to get a this in 2 sessions...the headwall is some of the best climbing I've done for sure

actually a really good route! pretty engaging wall to start, hard bouldery steepish crux. Best conditions ever at Brean tonight, felt awesomely easy

Was hungover as fuck and rock was scorching, stoked on the send!

Cool route. Did the crux both by the shoulder-y method (horrible) and by a gaston, which was much better.