등정들 Castle Crag에서 Hang dog로서

Sussing gear and moves at the end of the day after Trojan and Lamplighter.

Super cool and a totally new style for me. Managed all the moves on TR with a few rests, hopefully can redpoint it next trip!

More work on the project, moves came back quickly. Almost clean on TR, then ran out of juice and couldn't regain the high point. 7 attempts or so.

Exploratory lap to pull some hard moves, and with zero commitment as the gear was in. I did climb it very, very wrong it seems though, bouldering with great difficulty through sequences i subsequently saw absolutely styled through with knee-bars galore. I would like to come back to it one day. Generally pretty excellent but some of the worst rock on the Piles.

Fell just past the bolt! Finally worked out a sequence for the top crux.

3 laps working the moves. All worked out need to link and work out the gear.

Warm up

Thanks for the beta Robbie!

Arrgh! Trad climbing

Tried the left-most, most direct route with a carrot, a fixed hanger and a redirect bolt at the very top. Is that Siva Direct?

Fun to see what a trad 25 demands. A nice dream to aspire for

All the moves done on TR. We'll be back.

Got all the moves - lots of hanging around. Happy with that

Jesus Christ this is slick! It's hard or I'm too weak...or both.

Wow really hard, super pumpy moves, have fun with the crack at the bottom.

Can I blame adam demmert for making this polished? First 2 goes it felt impossible after getting to second piton, but third go I went from second piton to finish clean. But just can't figure out how to reach into the finger lock at that point.

Actually pretty good climbing, but it bails out half way up when the going gets tough. Tried to lead it and failed. Completely wasted at the end of the day. Fingers kept sliding out of the finger lock, and when I got that sorted, I was too pumped to do the mantle.

Fell off the last move!

Bounce tested a bit of gear before committing.

The gear was in so we jumped on it. Super funky knee bar moves and awesome finger locking sequence at the top. Would love to try this again when the endurance is a little better.

Dogged the hell out of it, spoogy as hell.

Had a second session after yesterday's effort and got the top dyno sorted and a good bit of linkage. It's still bloody hard for me. Work your weaknesses as they say... I'm worked!

Hard for a fair while! Took some nice lobs going for the jug

Fell taking out gear

Nice n hard in the roof, haven't been on it since. Nice top section though