Did a new route at Bauston today, essentially a traverse of the main face along the obvious break line.
For completeness a fuller description.
Start by swinging on from the boulder as per ‘Southern Gritstone Esoteric…’ move down and make hard moves left to reach the start of the break/ line of finger edges which lead into Streets Ahead and a rest. Continue following the improving break left to the aręte and finish up ‘Bad News…’
Some very good climbing and situations. Following the local ethic I used a runner in the tree to protect the crux moves around the aręte. Essentially a top rope at this point but I did fall off the move before the move into Streets and took a swing close to the floor.
The grade is a bit of a guess as I haven’t trad climbed anything this hard for a while.
I also cleaned Sreets Ahead and gave the mossy top outs of ‘Peripheral Visionary and ‘Nylon Stocking’ a brush which means that everything on the crag is now in good fettle. Great conditions there today, lots of cool shade making it a good summer destination.
A few very minor boulder problems added too.
One very happy climber, I’ve been waiting 2 years to get this done.