등정들 Stanwell Tops에서

Finally! I've had a few cracks at this over the years and failed miserably getting into the undercling. Today it was easy with a smeared right foot in perfect humidity conditions allowing me to reach up and in.

Take some long draws for this one to minimise rope drag. This arete is a good one!

Hard for the grade, maybe not the warm-up I was hoping for, especially with that desperate crimpy start! Quite a fun sequence up high though, definitely worth doing!

Great climbing, and quite sustained. It is quite hard for the grade, will definitely have to make use of the rest after the first crux, cause it's not over yet!

It's mostly chill, enjoyable climbing, save for a few moves around the middle, which are definitely cruxy! Happy to return and try this one again.

2 laps on this today, practicing placing some trad pro in a few spots.

Ended up going with a gaston on the flake and high foot to reach (just) past the sandy pocket and pebble crimp.

Glad to see this finally open, really nice line. The holds that looked wet were actually fine!

Did the Honnold for the gram.

Lap, nice but a bit pumpy

3x falls on the crux for various reasons, forever refining the microbeta, feeling confident

Warm up

Added a move, tried a few other things. Split a fingertip.

Fell off once and got straight back on.

Route was drity after all the rains and overgrown.

Mmm big reach crip

Surprised to see it was dry today, great moves and excellently bolted maybe a little soft for the grade but i'll take it

Pretty spoogey down low, consistently good crimping with a few breaks. Seems as though I made a few sections harder than they needed to be - keen for a repeat at some point. First 2-3 draws were up, clipped the anchors but didn’t attempt the final hold above the DRB.

Foiled at the thin seam (again).

Planned to work on the bottom part of Napalm Strike but the end was wet