Ascensiones de Master and the apprentice

Good hand crack to start and interesting moves on to arete. Rope got stuck on abseil down front face so make sure your knot is over the edge before descending

Warm up repeat. Actually climbed the route correctly this time (see prev ascent shenanigans). Discovered it was full of carrot bolts. Did not bring bolt plates. Used nuts instead.

The opening section was cool, but the long ramble to the top really didn't add anything.

Managed to forget about the traverse to fixed gear and decided to head into the corner and accidentally discover a new line.

Sling the large tree. Run out the chimney. Find a #3 placement at just the right time. Run out the off-width. Find a purple placement in a horizontal break. Scramble up some dirt and sandy rock way too run out above the past gear. Sling a shrub and pretend it'll hold a fall and scramble to the belay tree.

Not my best big brain hour.

Good hand jams to an actually fun and easy traverse and then quite exposed. Missed a couple of Carrots and ran it out but the top is easy enough.

Why is Odin not that popular?? Cracks here are all time!

Forgot boltplates so used nuts on all the carrots.

Nice climb. Spicy start and traverse halfway up. Nothing else to note

Led the crack but was simply not vibing with the traverse, noped my way down. Had no regrets after watching Cédric just barely vibing with the carrot positions afterwards.

Trad part was fun but sport was choss city!

A fun bolted slab - like Tom Thumb meets the Wolgan! Bring loong extenders (even double em up) as I feel the bolting requires them.

While I was belaying, Zi Hui Lie sent a huge rock down that had me diving for the cave, felt like a stampede came down upon me. After checking that I was still alive, I managed to send it nicely while seconding.

Got sketched out at the traverse, felt like I had run out of gear (could do with more #.75s and #2s). So I lowered off and we yoyo-ed the lead.

Classic - wanders, bring extenders

A fantastic adventure in wild trad land! Becomes a classic when you bush bash through lawyer vine and return via Victoria Falls

Very dirty after recent rain and like climbing in a refrigerator as it gets no sun. Hard start but the higher you get the easier it gets.

Hand crack is nice, put in new anchor sling and maillot above route. Thunderstorm coming

Some delicate moves getting off the deck followed by nice hand jams. Easy climbing around the arete. The anchor situation at top is a bit crap since the fires, however there is enough pro if you look for it.

What an interesting experience. We began only interested in doing the initial crack system, which seemed to be an alright proposition as there was two opposing biners and a sling at the top of this section. "Great!" we thought, someone else has done the same. So up we quested, with barely a single rack, extending nothing. Hauling myself into the pod, the anchor’s true form was revealed. A branch about 5cm in diameter, charred and poorly wedged amongst a myriad of loose chockstones. Not game to test it, I pulled up a second rack and ventured out to the arete. I should’ve read this part of the route notes because gaining the arete BEFORE stepping up high was thoroughly butt puckering, some of the most delicate moves I have pulled on trad (definitely step up FIRST). These moves were made even more enjoyable by implementing enough rope drag to make my belayer almost redundant. The excitement was only heightened when I reached the top to find the pile of charcoal that used to be the anchor tree (again, should’ve read the route notes). Much creativity was used in building the anchor, which swallowed up my final pieces, reinforced by prussic loops around torched trees. We rapped relatively easily down Sharpshooter. This route is very reminiscent of Tombstone Wall

Only went to the top of the crack this time and lowered off.

the first half up the crack is fun. The traverse out to arete is fun. Too bad the slab past the 4 carrots isn't as good.

Went to the tree, not in the best shape for sure, but I was able to get down