Ascensioni in Illinois come vari tipologie da Steve Foy

Super cool trad line, pretty good for only a third trad lead ever.

Finished out the top section for paul, still a really freaking hard route.

Pretty cool, had to climb through nest of bugs, parts of crack were wet, mossy wetness up top was less than stellar. Only trad lead of the day, pretty much made my day.

Really good sustained 5.9 trad line, had some trouble cleaning some of those damn nuts though!

Led the first pitch placing gear. First trad lead! Short on time, so Paul led the second pitch. Great climb, I think this is the third or fourth time I've been on it.

Led this on Paul's pre-placed gear, placed a few of my own in rest places for fun. Good climb, nice jackson trad.

I think I led this on Pauls pre-placed gear. Fun climb, right next to Deception.

Toe slipped off of a ledge sooo close to the anchors. Oh well, awesome trip, good climb. Slabby section up top is way harder than bottom.

Popped something on it the first time I did it, still hurting 3 weeks later...

Awesome climb, beta on the overhang from Paul. Definately a great climb.

Hardest climb that I've ever gotten on. I fell up the damn thing, but somebody had to get paul's draws back!

Last climb of the day, really took it out of me. Especially the off-width crack section near the top.

Tough route, definately freaked me out on that bulge section. I had to lock my knee behind my elbow to stay on rock.

Great route! Massive anchor bolt hangers, although they could use a screw link to lower rope friction when pulling it back through post rappell.

Really weird, long route. It starts with stemming in this really narrow hallway, and then wanders all over the main face. Cool though.

We got on this thinking it was the one next door, Earthbound Misfit(10a), we later learned that it was in fact Cut Throat, which the book lists as a 10b rather than a 10a.

Took one fall, but it was a good one, between the third and 4th bolts.

Cool enough route, it's the one directly to the right of Master Marley. I spoiled an onsight by taking a few good falls on it, oh well, better luck next time I suppose.

Best climb of the trip, amazing view once you round the nose and then push to the crest.

Best climb of the trip, amazing view once you round the nose and then push to the crest.

The crux is the only hard part, there is a great rest right before it, but I was still psychologically held back from the red point. Oh well, it will surely fall next time...

Really cool crack system that you shimmy up

second time up the route, good red point, only real struggle was the first move

Couldn't get it clean that day, but it will go down. One of the things is the bolts are incredibly far apart. Good climb. I met Dave later that day and we discussed the climb.