Ascensions dans Little Ayers par Brendan Heywood

Retick in approach shows. Done this many times, surprised I've never logged it before

This scrubbed up ok. Gritty hard traverse, almost campus problem. Mantle will be very committing and fall is slightly dodgy. Was fairly hot, had maybe a dozen goes, chasing shade from intermittent clouds

Had a bunch of attempts trying different new techniques. Tried a backstepped foot jam while laybacking which is hard but feels like I can cycle each bit up at least. Lets be honest thing isn't anywhere near a V4

Siege of different tactics, this time trending more into invert offwidth and away from the brute force layback

But then I found some energy for working the sit start to this crack. I kinda thought I'd done this back in the day, it's a super burly layback and if you can get through the first 50cm then it eases up. First go I did maybe 4 moves and was totally thinking I'd get it again the second time, and then it just shut us both down. Had a bunch of goes. Sit start might be more like V4-V6 as a layback, maybe less using some inverted offwidth foot jams and chicken wings if you can figure it out

Had a couple throws at this, but was pretty tired and tips were sore so my heart wasn't really in it

The most scary send I have had in ages - WOOHOO!!

Step up on rocks that you don't want to fall on, jump to the nice jug (if you are a short arse like me), a little left crimp, then match your right foot to your hand and rock over and up.