Ascents in North America as Flash by David Gibbs

A lovely lovely climb - but very long for a single-pitch climb.

Watched Mike lead it, so can't really claim it as an on-sight.

Easy-going until the bulge at the top. Sharp, though -- fall is scary just because of the abrasiveness, bolting is fine.

Short (for Main Wall) but quite good.

Easy lower down, a couple harder moves on the upper head wall. Not particularly exciting.

Lead P1, followed Pitch 2.

Perhaps a tad close-bolted, but good some good climbing.

When you've cleaned & bolted a route, you don't get to on-sight it.

A fun little lead with a couple balancy bits, and some trust-your-feet slab work on easy angled climbing.

Led this using the bolts for "The Morning After", making the clipping quite awkward in places, and since I finished on the upper section of the sport route, the finish was harder than the 5.3 of the main route -- probably notched it up to closer to 5.5 or 5.6.

Clean on TR, but would be harder on lead -- some very thin climbing. And you might lose a critical hold or two to the gear.

On TR felt about 5.10b

I think the crux bit is height-dependent. For someone taller, it might only be 5.10b, but if it takes two or three moves, rather than one, to reach the critical crimp, it would be harder.

Climbed the alternate finish first, so climbed starting the initial section under the bolt to the left -- might be start of La Corneille instead. A touch harder than the regular start, I think.

Dropped a TR on this thinking it was Smeghead. I guess it kind of was. Fun climbing on the traverse into the corner, then up the corner.

Thought it was 5.8 when climbing it. Seems no harder than "Walking on Sunshine".

Thin at the top, and the anchor stance isn't, but a bunch of good climbing.

If you can figure out the beta for the start, 5.9 is fair -- but it is a WEIRD start. If you don't figure out the beta, then it will feel MUCH harder. Also, might be height-dependent. We need to get a short climber to give it a try.

Being a trad climber, I avoided most of the lay-back bits by doing a couple of hand-jams; and only switching to a layback for the last move or so up the crack.

After we found this and Su A. Alteen lead it, I decided it wasn't worth the bother of cleaning the draws on the lower for this diagonal route, so decided to follow. I didn't bother taking off my belay gloves, just climbed in them. It was, still, super easy. It was graded 5.5, I've down-graded it to 5.2, but not entirely sure it is even 5.2.

And, not really worth climbing, either.