Ascensioni in Mosaic Rock

climbed it with screwed up ankle, so Fritz gave me a little tension over crux. Taking a week off to heal.

Tough 5.9 overhang, Then I took a mostly unremitting 5.7+/5.8 face somewhat left of the actual(easier)route.

Almost all of the climb is offsize. Requires Number 5 and 6 Camalots to protect. We don't have any that big, so we had to toprope it. Bypassed the crux on 5.8 friction.

Led most of it, but traded off and Fritz led the crux, so he gets lead credit. Route starts to the left of Chickenshit at a tree following cracks and depressions under a bulge at one's left and arcing across the top of a friction face to end at the top of Chickenshit. No record of this route, but someone probably did it as it is in an area with some 5.10's and 5.11's.

After leading Chickenshit I followed Fritz up Chickenheads. He got some rope drag so I did a short exit lead as a thunderstorm started to dump on us. It rained twice that day.

Warm day, but we climbed on the north side of Mosaic. Doh! It was kinda cold, guess why they call it summer dreams. Nice climb 5.7+ friction to crack to boilerplate. A couple tricams between 1.5 and 4.0 made protecting the climb easy.

Good climb, but messed up my ankle on it.

Both times I climbed it I was off a bit to the left of the bolts, making the face climb more intense. Someday I will follow the bolts.

Only about 10' of the climb is 5.8. Climbed with Fritz.

Some rope drag. One of my placements didn't help that. Mostly slinged chickenheads for pro.

Repeated climb varying route. Variations interesting too.

Mostly fun face climbing, some on chickenheads. It thunderstormed twice. We climbed before storms, subsequent climb was between storms.

This is always a good warm up lead for me after no climbing for a while. A little cool at the start; but it warmed up nicely.

Great climbing! Not as sustained as Techtonics next door but just as good.

Guidebook says R but didn't seem too bad. Super good and sustained! A real winner.

Got a free try on this one. Used other climbers toprope to set our own. Most pro needed to lead it is tiny stuff; I'll pass.