Ascents by Aidan Sarginson

Got surprisingly far accounted to all the on lookers. Super cryptic climb that would require some goes just to figure out the body positions

Worked the top move to understand the tension required. Just need to be sure of the lower crux and it's ready for send goes.

Warm up/hanging draws on Batman

Felt like a whanganui bay climb so points for that. Fun times. 22/23

Sudo grovelling in the corner down low to thuggy moves to the mantle. I'll take a climb 28 climbers struggle on. Waipapa 23 so could be 24 elsewhere

Grovelled up and worked out the beta. Also ripped a flake off the main wall. Still climbs the same

Warm up/to film Braden

One go to test how I felt/remember beta. Need to come back to this when I'm not jetlagged.

Warm up

Got all moves this session. Middle is dialed with the two hard moves being hard (duh) A contender for my first 27

A great last route of the trip. I'll be back

Fun route finishing with a splitter hands crack. The soloists coming down half way through the climb made things fun

Glad to have ticked this. Thanks Blair for the recommendation

Was not prepared for this as the warm up climb. Tried very hard at the bottom

Thin crimp line to a technical top. Who knew Yosemite had great sport lines

Great intro route to the valley beside the traffic jam and Sascha dropping my 0.3

An amazing route with such varied climbing. Almost onsighted it but had one fall on the crux pitch as I didn't push myself far enough into the chimney. Happy with this tick and thanks Blair for taking me out

Used to gain access to The Naked Edge. Pretty great climb

Mostly went up here to retrived a bail carabiner, but it looked cool so I tried it. Amazing route, just didn't have time to work it

Almost felt as hard as Rise of the Slothes, so take that how you will.. classic granite slab

Thugguy underclings to a finger crack around a roof

I accidentally thought this was a sports route and didn't bring any trad gear. It turned into ~6m runouts between bolts, so I switched to no-fall mode. Still a good climb

Slightly stiff warm-up. I didn't expect it to be as technical as it was

Longggggg

Dialled all the moves quickly but didn't quite have the juice to pull the second to last hard move. Crux holds felt like granite countertops

Last go of the day, more so just to check this out. Heaps of variety with the movement and so long

Warm up

I dislike slopers. #2ndgo

Repeat

Very similar movement to Dia, but just more sustained and smaller holds. #2ndgo

Heady first pitch to a thuggy second pitch. John went first on the second pitch but lowered down, so I took the reigns.

Led only the third crux pitch by using Werk Supp as an approach. Great leaning finger crack.

Fun first pitch led to a scary pull through a large roof. Glad there was a piton to back up the RP placement.

Couldn't figure out the roof. Made for a tough warm up

Had two goes. Finger was feeling slightly achy. Will go next time.

Cleaning the draws. Wasn't as tired as I thought I would be

First go putting on draws for everyone to try. Second go was meant to be a beta burn but ended up clipping the chains (after some noises came out). Too boulder bro for my liking haha #2ndgo

Night climb. Was seeping from the days before rain

Another rope solo. Reworked the two cruxes, now only one move is giving me trouble. Doesn't mean it's easy though

Would not have onsighted this at the start of the trip. Fingers corner into arete pulling followed by steep hand/fist crack, what a line.

Very funky climbing with heaps of different options. Had to downclimb some sections to figure out the sequence.

Seems that the theme of Potash road is cruxes getting off the ground due to how polished things are

Cupped hands corner crack with good feet. Made for a stiff warm up

Had to fight super hard to get up this. Slab finger crack that just gets steeper and steeper. My proudest trad ascent to date

Great slab finger crack to a bulge

The extension to Twin Cracks. Quite sport climbing in terms of movement along the flake with large gear

Bomber jamming and good stances to place gear