Unchained!
Excited because I've finally put up my first route! It's been quite a process, starting around September last year, when I first saw photos of this block and tagged it as a possible climbing place. I wanted to my first route to be an easy line that wouldn't be too hard to bolt. Upon close inspection this line turned out to be just that. The top of the block turned out to be accesible by a scramble with a crux of about french 3 / yds 5.4 close to the ground. It turned out there were plenty of opportunities for temporary anchors. The line had horribly rusted bolts, so there was some de-bolting to do as well, but a big hammer helped :-) after that, tapping, marking, drilling, cleaning, cleaning again, cleaning yet another time... gluing in bolts and then, finally, bounce testing them. The block stands in the sea, near Fort Beekenburg. It has big chain around it that was used to close off the harbour in World War 2. This is where it is in Google Maps: https://www.google.nl/m