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This one was the second best on this wall. A little slippery, but not as bad as the others.

We chose this route as a warm-up because of its low grade, and it was quite an intense ride - right above the tree (according to the Rockfax guidebook there should be two trees, but the right one is gone, so we pass what's left on the right) the road is slippery as an eel, shoes dance on the rock and hands don't really have much to help.

The beginning of this road doesn't look quite like it does in the Rockfax 2020 guidebook (photo in the Topo here is up to date) - it seems like a rock broke off on the starting ledge, just below the tree. Because of this, the first bolt is over 5m above the belayer. This has significantly increased the difficulty of the route, which now starts with a complicated crux without any belay, then leads through a fairly straight slab, which ends with another crux before exiting to a straight end full of very pleasant jugs. I did not dare to lead the beginning without a top rope.

The best route in this part of the crag, not slippery like others, with clear holds and steps, interesting problems and a good quality rock.

First bolt is missing???

First 4 bouldery meters are polished, handholds kind of wet (after small shower) and just very few actually holds, difficult to onsight-> 6a+ or 6b

Hard for a 4c, some slippery polished footholds combined with bad hands. Ended up top roping it instead.

Route also has a hard crux, might have been 4c in the past but now with the polished holds more like 5b

There is a crux that is definitely not 5a

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