Trial by Fire - 5.8

My knees took a beating, I wish I wore long pants!

I used a # 4 cam only, pushing it ahead of me in the crack. It didn't feel insecure or unsafe, I wasn't going anywhere :)
The cam didn't fit in 2 sections (too small) which provided excitement.

There is a single pitch above leading to Super Slide. It was full value adventure, circuituous climbing with poor rock and thus poor protection. Not recommended.

gets very hot midday. had to be lowered due to heat exhaustion. rested a bit and fired the rest. Over all fun route because I hated every crappy second of it.

we decided to do this as the start to super slide since there were 2 parties on the 5.2 start. i only had one #3 camalot so this was pretty much X for me. i placed a small cam that probably wouldn't have held before the crux, then slung some chockstones after the crux.

Led my way 3/4 up this route using arm-bars and my limited array of OW techniques. My partner had to finish it off though because I was to physically exhausted to make that last few moves.

I had 2 #3's and a #4, if you don't mind spacing your cams a couple dozen feet apart from one another then you can just walk them up. The route was very secure though, I managed to get in some good shoulder jams using an awkward straight in approach. When I seconded the route I found that working it more like a chimney felt much easier.

I ended up leading the second pitch. It was dirty, overgrown and poorly protected. Don't do it, not worth the time.

This thing was like being in a bar fight. I don't know how I made it with elbows & knees intact... Quite surprising for a 5.8.