Ascents in Thompson-Nicola

Fun!

Tricky start ! Would be advisable to clip stick first bolt.

The first bolt is missing it's but.

Fun !

We swapped leads simul climbing, linking 3 to 5 pitches at a time.

The climb is around 16m. Quality!

Consistent slab climbing on well-featured and mostly solid rock. It was easy to route-find given the ample bolts. Rappel route was good also.

Car to car in 5.5 hours at a casual pace. Just note on hot days the climb starts to see sun around 9-10am.

If using 70 meter rope to rap, can skip the last rap anchor and just about reach the ground.

Partner wasn't having a good time... loose rock wasn't too bad, but did unrope for the P3 scramble (scree). Definitely want alpines if linking. P4 had 3 bolts right next to each other, but one of them was definitely no good (rock fall?) All the 5.8 pitches I got to try were pretty fun. First half was great, psyched to try again next year!

A good warm up for the area. P4 was a one more wonder, but P7 was sustained and the highlight of the route. There is an option to scramble past P8 rap-rings to a "top out". However, its very loose, steep rock to get to an okay view. It was very sketchy and had to rapel off an old cordelette around a dead tree, would not recommend.

5.11a Bully Goat Gruff variation. Did the first six pitches in approach shoes for fun.

Linked 1&2 5&6 7&8.

linked every 2 pitches

Incredible views, loose rock and 19 pitches make for an adventurous outing.