13 June 2023

Cameron Hörst FA's Martial Law (9a+)

Cameron Hörst, who made his first out of nine 9a's in 2019 at age 18, has made the FA of Martial Law (9a+) at Robbers Roost. In the 8a ranking game, the 22-year-old is #13.

"Martial Law is a direct, harder start to an existing route called Arrested Development (8c+). The direct start was bolted/prepped by Andy Raether and Joe Kinder. A couple of weeks ago Joe invited me down to Vegas to try this Martial Law project with him. After a couple of sessions on the climb, I got super psyched and felt like I could do it with some effort."

It is a super bouldery and resistant route about 20-move, nonstop, intro section straight into the crux of arrested development. The grade seems to feel like a super super hard 9a or 9a+. Im deciding to propose 9a+ because I feel like it is harder than the 9a/+ I did (Bone Tomahawk). I also discussed it with Joe (who has done numerous 9a+ FA’s) and we both feel it is of the 9a+ standard. Getting to have the FA of Martial Law is a huge milestone in my climbing career. I am super thankful to Joe and Andy for welcoming me to try it!"


Today, he also sent Dad Bod (9a) at the same crag, calling it 8c+.
”Believe this is the 4th ascent? The Way Andy and Owen did it is def 9a. However, in the first (hardest) crux there is an obvious right knee scum that makes it V9/10 rather than V12. It is way too obvious not to use, so it will be the way people do it moving forward. I propose the climb should be checked at 8c+.”
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