Tuesday 15 January 2013

Scrabble Second Ascent?

Today Matt, Blair and I went back up to SCNL to try and get what we think could be the second ascent of a route called Scrabble VIII,7**.  This was first climbed in 2000 by Twid Turner and has soon very committing and technical climbing.

Picking my way up pitch 1


I was on for the first and crux pitch which was a pretty serious outing.  The climbing was excellent, but took a lot of time to pic my way up.  Very insecure moves a long way above protection made for a quite an intense lead.  Blair put in a steady performance to lead pitch 2 which was another tricky pitch around VII,7.  The third pitch was an excellent VI,6, which Matt made very short work of.  A final rope length saw us at the top and down at the bags without the need of head torches, Just!

Blair engrossed in the crux

Blair super steady on pitch 2
Matt enjoying the final tricky pitch

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