攀登 in High Neb Buttress

1st Trad Lead.

Super fun thin twin crack!

Backlogs. Hard beginning

Backlogs. Nice climb for refreshing gear placements

Start seemed 22+ to us! Gave up and climbed the arete coz I was getting pulled sideways by the toprope but still hitting the ground on stretch. Gets HVS 5c on ukc which makes more sense.

Looked like a pretty scary lead to me but Raphael didn’t seem too bothered. Slab with shallow breaks…

Actually the Diff ‘Tango Descent’ to the left, to take photos of this one

Fun start, a bit easier after that than expected

Gosh this was hard. The crux is definitely not the overhang.

Burly roof

greeeeaaat trad slabbing. worth the long walk

A bit more technical and run out than high neb. very good

jon the cowboy cave decided to make this his first every trad lead after seconding some e1's without difficulty. set up an anchor for him at the top, and off he went. He immediately got into groundfall territory by doing a massive run out above his first peice until I told him to place something. Then I told him to back it up cause if it pops he is dead. Then he set off again, climbed past another placement opportunity on a big run out into the roof. I suggested he might want to place another piece, but he was too pumped to place anything and couldn't reverse the move into the roof he had just done. So he took his first Trad whip. Thankfully the pieces held fine. But he had left a cam half way up the roof so we had some fun getting it out. Then he bailed onto an easier route out right. What a ride. He had a good time though. so we did what i imagine is a fairly popular variation; the start of quietus into Norse corner climb.

the final big layback moves were great. felt fairly burly