Ascensions dans Sierra Nevada comme Tick

mega fun adventure, worth the crowds. tests your ability to climb everything: splitters, boulder sequences, steep jug haul, chimney (p5, p8), committing to balancy mantle above a first bolt/ledge (p4). pitch breakdown was arbitrary but worked out well: I somehow got the bouldery pitches (p3, p7) and not the reachy ones (p1, p6)

very cool, V9

soft

soft, fun

Beatiful and tall (but not to much). bevare of the last movement

soft but amazing

my greatest acheivement yet

Sent it the Day before my honeymoon...never could finish thriller.

v8?

Stuck the move, after the drifter move, to the right knob third try this trip and finished off the problem. Super fun but you have to cut your feet...

Did the traverse left to right. Really hard starting moves. Its prob only V7 if you go right to left. Super Fun!!

High step at the start and then trust the little crimps and throw for the jug!

big moves

Crazy right heel rock over to a big reach! Harder if you are over 5'9"

classic

Super fun crack crimping with innovative feet!

Super slick feet for the start. Fun crimping. Cool sloping crimp topout. Thank goodness for the left foot!!

Repeat. Much easier this time!

Awesome problem!

Perfect line and moves!

Tricky sequencing on steep pockets. Fun!

Great fun, underrated sloper problem. definatley worth your time

Took me a bit of working to perfect the microbeta past the crux sloper-match... but then the last of my projects went DOWN. I never managed to keep my feet on after reaching the shallow two-finger pocket, so in the end I just held the cut-loose one-handed with the pocket. My height helps on this one. After the Send I then repeated it clean for a photo.

Awesome! This went 2nd shot today after practicing the lower and upper halves in isolation. Turning the slab and the moves immediately after it are hard and insecure. I was glad to have spotters today.

3rd shot (and some time working the middle section). I should really take more rest days! With the bottom 1/3rd sorted from ticking the V4 to the left, and the top 1/3rd dialled from sending the V5 to the right, I only had to perfect 3 powerful (and crimpy) steep moves in the middle to be ready for the tick. A great, sustained climb that is more consistent than its two neighbours. Stoked!

Lots and lots of shots. Invented some new unconventional beta (after having no luck with the normal sequence) and it eventually went down. Im psyched to tick this Buttermilks 3-star test piece. Crimpy, arete-slapping start, with some intense tic-tac footwork leading to a thin, balancy, insecure and tall finale. Very cool!

Repeat. Clean again first go today. Demonstrating the sequences to my friends. I kind of bungled it a bit and had to fight hard to keep it together, which made it feel more rewarding than when I first Sent it.