lush climb - laybacking brilliance

JMCS meet, 2nd for Bryan

Nice!

Was a shame that it had to many ways to climb it avoiding fist/off width jamming. Didn't have a big enough cam to project in crack so runout was interesting.

Lead immediately after following Andy up it.

Nice climb, loose block before the pillar ledge. Bold top moves unless you have some huge cams!

mild for HVS

Not as hard as I remember it. Should have got it clean, one poor foot placement just before finishing the layback and I was off. Straight back up cleanly.

Much easier than I anticipated (easier than heathy imo) and not that much off-width technique required after all. Rock quality somewhat worrying, ran it out on some of the easy sections because I did not really want to place anything behind all those dodgy blocks.

Looks like the bottom part of the layback has come off recently - I'd like to see a frontal photo to be sure though!

one day this will fall down, so I'm glad I've done it.

Nice bold layback section. Doubt the pillar is going to be there much longer though!

Finally! it's taken 3 attempts to get up this. Laybacked up the crack with a pull and rockover onto the face holds.

Offwidth is pleasantly thrutchy and thought-provoking~!

easy except off width crux as i had no big cam. protection below off width good but would lead to hitting protruding rock below. some higher micro protection far left on pillar face.

Got a bit further. Tried the face holds again, no joy. Lay-backing seems to be the answer but I need to work out how to get into the crack...removed a large amount of skin thanks to the rope getting in the way...maybe next time.

Didn't have any gear big enough to fit the off-width so it was scary!

Multiple attempts to get into offwidth, almost made it once. Either need bigger arms or smaller knees....

very perplexing! think i knew what to do but didnt have the balls to go for it without a large cam... we all had a look at the crux then i downclimbed removing gear. will be back with a freind 4 or 5!

Dogged previously

Took a wee while and a lot of chalk to commit to the crux - pulling hard while jamming your foot into the offwidth. Just kept staring at the under-cammed big cam! Glad I got it.

Great climb! Size 4 frinend would have been very useful to protect crux.

Fell out the off windth, onto a very overcamed no 4(bring a 5 if u wana feel safe). Easy climbing before and after the OW... Ground up not clean.

First time I did the crux on face holds. Second time I did the layback which was quite slippy.