25th November 2025 @ Blackstone Edge, 6A+

Only sent because I saw Robin’s video and copied his beta for the move to the lip. I’d climbed it in Summer 2025 but in typical overcast conditions. I came back and was rewarded. Probably the 5th or so time I’d got up it.

This has been a bit of a low grade nemesis boulder for me, mainly because I had an irrational fear of it. The problem is that the start is actually on a ledge, and there’s maybe a drop of a couple of feet off to the right. This always bothered me, because the way I was trying to climb it was by putting a lot of force through hands on the slopey left arete. I was always afraid of stepping up off the low break because I felt my hands would slip and I’d fly off rightwards.

This was actually the reason I ended up buying a second pad. However, probably in 2023, I wandered up one January with my two pads, and it didn’t solve any of the fear. And despite the rock being dry, the air was damp and pretty still, so even the easy slabs to the left of this, Paw Print and Subtletease, didn’t feel very secure. In the end I chickened out and worked on Luna instead. It was a pretty miserable day to be honest.

However, I eventually saw Robin climbing it in one of his videos, and I thought he was doing it a little strangely. This must’ve sat in the back of my mind for a while, because I don’t think I went back to it until 2025. At this point I looked at Robin’s video again and realised that although the beta looked a little weird to me, it actually looked like a much safer method. After copying Robin like that, it felt fine. That day it was a bit cloudy and the footage I got didn’t look that great, but I went again one November afternoon at sunset and got what I think is one of the nicest backdrops in the video.