Ascensiones de The Frenz Experiment

Good to get back on it, definitely much easier and found a more direct way to do the crux.

Repeat, great fun. Only if the crack was double the height, it'd be a classic

Gerald lead first and I used his gear. Much easier to climb this now

Trad route

First trad climb

My first FULLY trad send (that I didn't just free solo lol). I way over-protected but good practice for placing gear 😅 And after much faffing about I managed a proper handjam that I could just hang one armed off ✌🏼😍

Much cleaner placements, and better use of crack. Still a bit further left than I'd ideally like, but cleanest mantle.

Short but quality route. Solid, abundant gear. A few technical spots. Not as many jams as I'd hoped, will try to do it without bridging next time.

Repeat

Super sport on Claude's pre-placed gear

Much better jams in the crack, still need work on my footwork.

Not quite pure crack, getting closer though.

Repeat

Repeat. I love this climb!

Favorite trad route at the Springs! Such an aesthetic and fun route + super solid gear. Used cams #0.4 to #1.

Good fun learning to jam with Owens help. Have got a lot to learn! Was pretty happy with some of my hand and toe jams, certainly have a bit of work to do though!

Felt I didn't use the crack as much as I should.

Working on my crack climbing, managed to use the crack alone, no face, although not jamming all the way, most of the way though. Pretty happy with my effort.

Still can't stick to the crack. Can only find one hand jam which relies on downward pressure into a constriction which promptly pulls out when you stand up.

Still unable to do this with just crack

Hand & toe crack jams. Forgot draws so just cams, er...

Bottom is good but top is not, seems a tad loose up there. 18 is very generous, thought 16 perhaps?