An opportunistic route-climbing session
Jun. 22nd, 2016 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDown at the Quay this evening, I bumped into a friend from work and, rather than sit around and do auto-belays, we did some of the new top-rope. I tried a couple of the routes on the slab, found they were very much my sort of thing and crushed them. I on-sighted a 6b+ which looked hard from the ground but which didn't present any real problems; a nice combination, it featured a couple of nice bridges, some technical footwork, and burly crux move the involved pulling up on a couple of monos to move out for a half-crimp.
LB climbed both the slab routes, tried an awkward 6a+ with lots of pinches, and made a good attempt at one of the long routes up the pillar — the crux of which came at one of the overhangs, which I'd originally read a layback but which turned to work better as a high-foot and a front-on pull-up.
LB climbed both the slab routes, tried an awkward 6a+ with lots of pinches, and made a good attempt at one of the long routes up the pillar — the crux of which came at one of the overhangs, which I'd originally read a layback but which turned to work better as a high-foot and a front-on pull-up.
