The American Tourist

Super scary, but satisfying afterwards. Seven pitches: 1) N5- 30m, 2) N5+ 45m 3) N6 50m 4) N6 45m 5) N6- 50m 6) N5 45m 7) N3+ 50m Incredibly poor protection on first five pitches - only couple of runners per every pitch. Extra micro cams could give a bit more protection. Decending is quite sketchy. Left from the top goes a “path” following the upper face, all the way next to the running water. There is a rap tat tide in a small tree - where to rappel 50m down to a bolted anchor. From there, follow the old sport route (rusty)bolts and use its (rusty)anchors to desend. Extra cordelet and milons can be useful.

Did the route as the second, but still was no easy feat. Route requires commitment, a cool head and loads of smearing. Descending was not great; finding the right abseil place took time, rapping off a bush (using an old rap tat) to the first anchor and using old sports route anchors of which some were rusted further down was in line with the poor overall protection of the route.