zeroclimber

Quarryman (5.8) on the Penny Lane Wall at Smoke Bluffs at Squamish. It was my first year leading trad. I fell on a fairly small nut -- I don't remember which one. I had climbed the crack through the crux and instead of climbing left to bolts, continued up the crack. The crack flared, got shallow and wouldn't take any more pro. I tried to lay it back, but was in over my skills. I hung out too long trying to keep going up and got tired and fell about 15 feet -- maybe a bit longer. Before missing the chains, I had told my belayer, "this thing eats nuts like a crack ho!" I think that may have been when the crack decided I was going "down". Don't trash talk the crack ho!