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ferdia

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I like to see if I can do lots of different things, from big routes and winter sketching to highballing and limestone cave cranking. Particularly drawn to pretty bits of rock in the mountains especially those high above water, quirky little-climbed features in nice places, and ambitious ideas. Bit of a penchant for old school wiggy weirdness i.e. standing around on small edges for ages fiddling in RPs.

New routing:
- E7/8 6c new route "The Certainty of Tides" ~ could be the hardest route put up by a woman in Britain
- E6 6b new 9-pitch route "Arrhythmia" ground up
- E6 6b "The Highlander Direct Start" and others
- Boulders up to f7a+
- Did my first new route aged 14 on Lundy Island

Big wall:
- 5.12c "Moonlight Buttress" ground up (freed all but one linking move)

Alpine:
- ED2 6c+ "La Republique Bananiere" (26 pitches), ED1 7a "Puree D'Astragale" and others onsight.

Trad:
- 66 x E5-E8

- E8 "The Rising Son" (4th ascent)
- Five E7s including two multi-pitch
- Two mountain E7s "Skye Wall" and "The Cwm Face" (2nd ascent)
- E7 solo "The Power of the Darkside" on grit
- E6/7 ground up "Abra kadabra" 8/8+

- Six E6s flash/onsight/ground up including "The Naked Ape" on the Dubh Loch, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on Cloggy, "Siren's Cry" at Pentire (all onsight) and "Nosferatu" on grit (flash)
- 13 x E6 total - a couple more climbed swinging leads
- 18 x E6 attempted ground up

- 43 x E5 onsight/flash/ground up including "Il Duce", "Shear Seer", "Black Magic", "The Nectarine Run", "Womb Bits" and "Merlin". A couple more redpointed and many more climbed swinging leads.

Winter:
- VII 7 onsight "Neanderthal"
- VI 6 "Postern Variation" on the Shelterstone

Bouldering:
- f7c "Ben's Roof"
- f7b/+ highball "Crystal Voyager" (3rd go)
- f7b flash "Wet Market SDS"
- Numerous f7a+ flash/onsight

Sport:
- 8a "The Invisible Girl" on slate (2nd ascent)
- 7b+ onsight on slate

DWS:
- 7b "Manilow Magic" and "Arapiles, Oh Arapiles"
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Location
Llanberis

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First (and only) attempt at Dead Ringer Direct

First (and only) attempt at Dead Ringer Direct
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Chased by midnight shadows

Chased by midnight shadows
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Soloing at Sharpnose

Soloing at Sharpnose
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Hybrid Landscape

Hybrid Landscape
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Pretty roadside

Pretty roadside
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The long corner pitch

The long corner pitch
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Scaling Concorde

Scaling Concorde
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Presten squared

Presten squared
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