Maarit Vähä-Piikkiö

Boulder on a rope

Solo.

Long moves made this hard for a shortie, could call it 10a (6a)

Some of the smallest crimps I've used on a 5.9

Led even pitches.

Led only 4th

The crux a bit harder for shorties.

Middle is the crux for shortie.

Led odd pitches. Better than Foxie!

Led odd pitches.

Ekaa kertaa puhtaasti. Pari vuotta sitten työstin tätä kymmeniä ja kymmeniä kertoja, nyt meni kolmannella. Hintsuja muuveja ja melkosen hintsut piissit. Ehkä joskus liidaten.

Yliksellä about 6 vuotta sitten.

Kiva :)

Date not exact

Date not exact

Ei kyllä ollu nelonen mun muuveilla :)

Toproped years ago.

Tokalla, yllätyyys :D

Pretty awkward for small hands. Noisy ascent :D

Ei minkäänlaista tyyliä, mut ylös meni lopulta. Tuntui tosi vaikeelta.

Tokalla. Vaikka sössin saitin ni silti jee! :)

Top roped earlier.

5-. Top roped earlier.

2nd go.

Tokalla.

Tokalla

2nd go. After crux didn't go left - went straight up instead, which made the route a bit harder :D

Kiva.

True 3D climbing on huge tufas. 40 meters! Propably the best grade 5 route I've ever climbed.

Bua + Möz in one run.

Did the start from left, otherwise a lot easier.

2nd go on lead. Soft.

2nd go. I loved this route :)

Totally polished

Mixed some routes accidentally and climbed this from last bolt to the anchor before. So no flash :P

2nd go.

Pulttaus oli jännää, kun en ylettynyt laittaa jatkoja luonnollisista pakoista, vaan piti kiivetä parissa kohtaa pultin yli ja klipata alaspäin! Vähän kuumotti :)

Led 1st & 3rd. Hard to climb onsight since the route had lot of action, a queue (day or night, rain or sun) and a party before us.

Led 1st & 3rd. Hard to claim onsight since the route had lot of action and a party before us.

Led 2nd & 4th

Led 1,3,5.

Flash close but no cigar - fell just at the anchor and had to settle for a redpoint. Climbed accidentally straight at the anchor, which is harder than the original end. Anyhow it was pure enjoyment to climb it twice :)

Hienoa perusjammailua!

Top rope 2012

Top rope '12

Kiva loppu, mutta ankkurilla lapsilukko. Yletyin klippaa juuri ja juuri ankkurin, kun ankkurilla valmiiksi jatko. Ei kyllä oo kutosen muuveja, jos olis tuosta pitänyt vielä kiivetä ylöspäin!

"season flash"

Second go. Bolted trad line.

Solo

2nd go. Jugfest + nice cruise to the anchor :)

Falkberget unlocked :)

2nd go. Hart - not really, I'd say soft 6b. Herzlich - well it has lots of bolts and big holds :)

Warm-up

3rd go

Missed the onsight due to stupid mistake after last bolt. Grade may be soft, but the climbing is good.

40 meter slightly overhanging jugfest. Me likey muchos!

Linked both pitches into one long and enjoyable 39m climb. Surprisingly airy considering the grade.

Finally! Managed to do the dyno and eventually wasn't even that hard :) Always learning something new :)

2nd go. Climbed pretty much straight, the most logical line if you're following the line of bolts (didn't have the topo with me just followed my intuition and bolts). However afterwards checking the topo seems like the line goes right of bolts which is quite illogical.

5-

Leppoisa ja mukava.

Retro onsight. Toproped once couple years back. Nice line.

Greenpoint / clean. Perfect placements for trad gear, shame it's bolted.

Climbed part of the route earlier, upper part (crux) went onsight. My first grade 6 trad lead!

Felt harder than other grade 6+ routes.

Wet and soapy slippery in the end.

2ng go. Small pockets.

Second go. O/s so close, but then again, no cigar! Really good for it's grade. Pumpy.

Climbed clean / with trad gear.

Climbed clean.

Beta really helped with this one.

Retro onsight. Crack climbing yay! Would give this one more stars if it were longer. I'd love to climb something like this that would just continue on and on and on.

"Season flash". Red pointed this a year ago, felt now a lot easier :)

2nd go. Bouldery start, then easy.

Second go. Softish.

Otepää oli helpompi tai about samaa tasoa ku tä.

Enjoyed this sector!

2nd go.

What a crap!

Never 6a+, would be even a soft 6a. One reachy move. Nice route thou!

One of the best multipitch routes I've climbed (thou I have not climbed many). Led pitches 1, 3 & 5 (5th is the icing of the cake). Date not exact.

Second go. Dusty but nice route.

Just barely on-sighted.

Crux in the beginning, then easy.

Second go. Easy for its grade, one reachy move.

Second go. One reachy move.

second go.

second go.

Delicate crux move.

A bit morpho crux.

Led 1st L, seconded 2.

Date not exact

Seconded.

My first trad lead (or lead in general).