Ascensiones en Evans Crown

Tricky highstep over bulge

Trivial

I was disappointed. Expected hard, spicy, lichen slab, with questionable bolts. Got trivial slabbing with more bolts than necessary.

A few goes to get the start, then cruisey

Quite nice, less lichen on this one

Nice

Felt exactly as described, still not 100% if this was the route or not, done alot of cleaning on the second pitch, glad I hauled up the number 4 and 5 cam

Well I guess this was it, exacerbated by the worn approaches, despite only a few 12 moves at the top which became steeper and more lichenous after the clean rough lower central section of 4-6.

Slipped off the first move a few times, then went from the ground. Awesome pitch

Again slipped off the first move then from the ground. Really nice rock

Did the hard bits, I think, but not being able to reach the 4th carrot from the good stance was the last straw for me friable nerves. Really fun style… but different.

Spent a while at the end of P1 before taking off my jacket and pulling out some sport climbing moves (but tree is in!) P2/3 we just followed a line of bolts straight up which didn’t really match the description and was a bit hardish for the grade; or maybe it was just the lichen. Last pitch is chill if you can offwidth and I wish I had led it.

first pitch is an unusual crack/layback situation with a big hard move at the end. the TR in TRad stands for TRees are on right? then two well bolted slab options for pitch 2/3 (do as one pitch) we went left as it wasnt a 'lichen deathscape' as described by Cake Dalmeney. and then the triumphant final pitch of one of the most enjoyable offwidths ive ever done. its a bummer someone has bolted the easy looking headwall 1m right of the crack. dont be tempted, get wide!

noticeably harder than the 19 slabs we had done on this trip. a lot more frictiony. awesome moves though

has approx 10 bolts now. and i hung on many of them. great slabbing. still can pop the #3 cam in the volcano spot if you want but not essential

for some reason i am quite incapable of recalling this climb even hours after i did it. im sure it was good they all are.

blew the onsight by going left up top onto the wet slopey zone and grabbed the chains instead of clipping. awesome climb though

this is a 3 pitch route - i took P2, Bah took P1 and P3.

wow, thought we were getting a walk in the park slab to finish - nope! some of the most tenuous climbing all weekend! grades on slabs seem somewhat irrelevant - 17-20 and i could not tell the difference

was very lucky to get a spritz-less window for this one!

slab climbing is so enjoyable - it all kinda feels the same but is never dull! hyper focused flow times

my exploded ankle lives on!

Funny how seeing someone make less effort leading nearly twice the grade puts things in perspective.

nope. but the only chance i have at climbing my age so time to get to work.

where does everyone else start and did you just protect it with pads while its a chimney before you can get a 6 in?

pretty stoked on this one! was very enjoyable and not a death slab! very well protected! fun for the whole family! one more exclamation point!

haaaard start but maybe eases after that? glad to know its not overgrown like i initially thought! looks mega

3pm and we finally topped something yay!

Mountains in a pall of gloom, Tarana dry.

Think this has 5 glue in SS bolts up the clean streak.

Think this has 2 old carrots, an overlap, and way too much lichen for a "safe" lead.

Master class in sunny slabbing by an old master.