Ascents in Utah by David Gibbs

Gear wasn't as good as on "Outside Corner".

So not my style! Steep, pumpy, and tricky figuring out what were the good holds. Glad to get the on-sight.

Couldn't pull the final roof after a few tries, so just aided it to clean the anchor.

It's slab, but not friction slab -- more like less-than-vertical face climbing.

Last climb -- was a bit tired. Took about 3 tries to figure the moves above the eye.

First climb here, learning the rock. The desert varnish is slick!

5.8+

Tricky over the bulge.

After accidentally leading Oh Shit, decided I should do a second 10b on purpose. One where I couldn't trick my way around any of the moves.

Thought this was a 5.10a, so went after it 3rd (had done a couple 5.8s here). It was considerably stiffer than those, especially with the very steep start. Hand-jams definitely helped at the start, though. Did some stemming in the upper bits, which might have been off-route.