Ascensions de Footloose and Falling Free

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Lovely lil bit of climbing, great flow and varied moves. The grade felt a bit soft but I did use the arete on the right which might have been why.

Lovely face route, shame it's so short. Heaps of gear, but it's hard to hang around to place. If only the route had an anchor up top! Even a big sling and maillon around the boulder would suffice. I finished direct (great final moves) rather than traversing out to the left anchor.

Because I topped out direct, the the only logical option seemed to be to scramble up the two choss gullies above, roped up for the second one, to reach the top anchor. Huge pain in the butt! Rapping down though, it looked we could have just downclimbed the little gully right of the route.

Really liked this one.. not technically an onsight, i stept onto it to test the finger crack and exploded off my foot-nub. I am still logging the OS cos the serious part of the climb was onsighted and i like lying to myself for validation. There was one move around the middle to get established on the solid ledge at 2/3 height that was actually quite committing even for 20, but otherwise this was quite chill. Good positive holds and very solid feet most of the way. Trad anchor in the back wall to rap off then walked up and down the side to clean it

Fabulous piece of climbing even though its less than 10m high. Great gear once you find where to put it

Do it in a Froq

Been meaning to lead this for a while. Gear was solid, never too spaced. Would recommend!

bomber pro, description wrong

Fantastic little climb

20 20's - 10/20

This one packs a lot of surprises into a short distance. Quite good, and I thought the gear was mostly bomber, and more than sufficient if you have micro cams and RPs.

Good to clean up an old dog.

Really classy tic-tacky face climbing that had me looking for my next bit of gear. I reckon this is a good prelude to the face climbing of harder routes like Impulse and Epic Journey.

Really good route. just a pity it is not so easy to get off.

Seconded Nicola - great lead. Pro is fiddly and spaced (near to the ground) so probably should be well rested to attempt this. Some nice moves though. Some loose rocks when scrambling off to the right.

Was good to get on this last time could do the moves and when i fell destroyed a rope!

Really nice little climb. Holds are all there, just need to get the body position and gear right, to avoid pumping out.

Footloose and falling free indeed

I really like this one. Surprisingly takes a blue cam 3 camalot at the top.

Took a fall low and pulled two pieces. Nerves shot.

Good fun, but easy compared to the average Frog sandbag! Micro cams very handy, needs a descent anchor!

Not really sure what this climb was like. The sun was blazing and I was in a rush to get out of there before we were roasted alive.

Awesome little climb. As usual with Frog, it is more technical for the grade because of the shorter length. Stuffed around trying to put cams two sizes too big in cracks... Happy to push past the "wanting to come down and whimper" feeling and got to the top.

so close