Ascensions de Storms at Sea comme Tick

A fun mini-adventure. Good mix of jugs, thin face climbing and good corner cracks. There's also a good mix of rock quality 😉

Sadly fell off on the delicate traverse on P2 so can't claim the clean tick.

Topping out the climb is heinous and muddy. Seriously consider leaving a bit of rope at the top out anchors.

Also combined P4 and P5, which is a good option to save on belay faff, no significant issues with rope drag.

We fixed a 54m dynamic rope to just barely reach sketch ledge, then rapped from there to the ground with another rope. Belinda led P2 as her first trad lead, then freed P4! (FFA). I freed it after her too, and it seemed to be about 19, but it required pulling on loose chossy blocks that could fall in your face, so I wouldn't recommend it. Belinda led P5 as well for the complete trad experience.

We did it at night! We had a bit of trouble with the start of P2 but the rest of it went very smoothly. P3 was very exciting in the dark

First ascent. It was super cool to do this with Nat! I got the crux at the start of P2 first go. Nat bravely suppressed a panic attack on P3 to get it onsight on lead