Ascents in Lanaudière by David Gibbs

Unlike many of the other climbs in the area, this doesn't take particularly good gear.

Person who lead it missed the upper corners, so missed the best part of the climbing.

Steeper than it looks, harder than 5.8.

The move off the first ledge past the bulge at bolt 2 is a real stopper move for most people on a 5.7. Rest of the climbing is very good, though.

Linked as one long pitch.

The steep corner that is the second half of this pitch is excellent climbing, and takes good gear.

Regretted the rest... should have just pushed through and gotten the on-sight.

Compared to the 5.7s and 5.8s around, these two routes are more like 5.4 and 5.5.

Hung on one bolt, when for a bit of a whipper another place. Very hard for a 5.8 -- and very long.

It was still a bit to quite wet in places from the rain -- so dirty, too. But quite climbable.

Lead this before the rain came in.

Lead only on the bolts, and wet -- made the upper bit quite exciting.

Seemed harder for shorter people -- I did a lot of wide stemming (felt the hip flexors when done), seems more burly if you can't stem.

Short, but very burly.

High first bolt, good, thought-provoking climbing above.

Lots of fun.

Mostly easy blocky climbing, but one thinner (5.6) section. Takes gear well.

Good technical climbing -- not as hard as I expected.

P1 is an excellent, sustained, piece of lovely 5.8 climbing.