Just before Christmas Mark Katz returned to his spiritual home, the Caseg Boulder above Bethesda, and climbed the project sitting start to Nick’s Groove (i.e. the groove between Caseg Groove and On the Wagon). Mark pulled on from an obvious low crouching position (right hand: sloper right of the groove, left hand: big undercut), although taller climbers will manage this from sitting. A hard move up to a higher right hand pinch precedes a jump for the slopey shoulder; match and rock out leftwards to easy ground. As for the mooted grade, Mark said the moves felt hard, but conditions were excellent, so “hard V9/7c” it is.

After the removal of some low blocks clogging the left end of the boulder it seems that Don’t Think, Feel is now worth a solid V9/7c. Also of note is the differing methods for Main Vein - the left hand version using an undercut out left is worth steady V9/7c, whilst the original rockover method still warrants V10/7c+

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