UKC Logbook - 'Bada Boom'

400m, 11 pitches.

Rockfax Description
300m. A fantastic hard route featuring some brilliant crack climbing that isn't common in the Aiguilles Rouges. The climbing is pretty sustained providing a great challenge. Start as for Grevolle Direct. The junction is marked with a metal plaque on the bolt.
1) 5b, 2) 3c, 3) 5a, 4) 6c, 5) 3c, 6) 7a+, 7) 6c+, 8) 7b, 9) 6b+, 10) 6b+, 11) 6b+. © Rockfax

UKC Logbook Description
The hardest and at nearly 400m, the longest route on the Perrons. It starts easily enough up the first 2 pitches of Grevôle, then heads right a bit to climb the nice wall right of the corner of Grevôle. Once on the middle terraces it goes right and takes the striking thin crack in the grey wall - its raison d'être - and definitely the best pitch on the Perrons. Harder climbing follows to a superb, if easier finale up the ramp that splits the overhanging headwall. 11 pitches. Take 15 quickdraws and 2x50m.

J de Montjoye / H Sharp 03/Oct/2010.

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JTM	19 Jun, 2024	Show βeta βeta: First ascent. Bolted partly ground up. The long crack was first done on nuts/friends. The crux pitch and parts of others were equipped from above. I wondered for a long time if our luck would hold, and there'd be a way through the overhanging upper head wall. A telephoto pic taken from the end of the ridge that separates the two cwms under the crags revealed a hint of a weakness..	βeta?
Show beta βeta: First ascent. Bolted partly ground up. The long crack was first done on nuts/friends. The crux pitch and parts of others were equipped from above. I wondered for a long time if our luck would hold, and there'd be a way through the overhanging upper head wall. A telephoto pic taken from the end of the ridge that separates the two cwms under the crags revealed a hint of a weakness..