攀登 in South Shore

The crack was dripping wet, but some holds were positive enough that it didn't matter.

Not sure I was in the correct crack, felt a bit easy for the supposed V2 grade, more like V0. Might have been the wet one a little to the right?

Sloppy, but onsight.

I did a sit start. Guide is ambiguous on whether that's required.

Fun. Easy moves to start, reachy middle, top out.

#2

Somehow felt easier than 'Lake Warm-up SDS' (V0).

Probably helped that I'd inspected the holds.

No hands - just elbows

Nice rising traverse.

Second lead-n-clean of the day. Mostly just scrubbed off a bunch of the slippery grey lichen on the face and the crunchy black stuff too. Fun climb, even with pauses to scrub.

Positive holds. Sparse at the top - unless you go left?

My first ever ground-up lead-n'-clean (clead?). Bit of a pain to scamper up the face, but with the big crack cleaned out a bit, should be more fun (and possibly a trad line now?). Unclear if that'll make it a lower grade or just a more fun climb.

Still more dirt to be scrubbed from the crack but at least now there are side pulls above and below it.

#5/5 on the day. Fun climbing, then an interesting top out. Will have to try the direct option next time instead of the left/right zig.

#1. I'm calling this an onsight because the last time I cleaned it was as ground-up cleaning day with Climb NS, so the route was completely different. It's much nicer now that it's not a complete bush/mud disaster.

Easy once I brushed enough.

Careful of the landing.

Narrow-nice hand crack for me. Just wish it was longer.

Sit start to pull through overhang onto 'Baby Steps' .

Narrow chimney, lots of fun

Dodgy topout/descent

Dirty

One move and a lichen mantle.

Did a sit start.

Crack was very wet, so didn't try to jam.

Easy climbing, but fun.