Miles Perry FA’s Path of least resistance (9a)

Miles Perry has, after some 25 sessions, done the FA of Path of least resistance (9a) in Logan Canyon. ”So psyched it’s finally done! Big thanks to Anthony Txertudi for envisioning this line nearly 15 years ago and the Logan climbing community for all the support on this one.”

The 21-year-old started climbing in 2019 and in just a year he flashed his first 8A boulder. Then in 2022 he made the FA of Unwind (8B+) which has not been repeated. Since the he has sent five 8c routes.

How has the recovery been since your rupture injury in February you mention on Instagram?
I got kind of lucky because I ruptured my a2 on my pinky finger which meant that I could still climb in a 3 finger drag and the path project happened to be mostly open hand pockets.

Also when it came to getting back to full health on my fingers I had to take a month of of climbing and then slowly started climbing on jugs or on 2 finger pockets which seemed to help my pinky even though I wasn’t climbing on it.

How come you skipped the 8c+ grade?
I didn’t intend to skip 8c+ it’s just that the bottom of Parh is shared with a climb called Super Whiteout which is 8c/+. It just finishes on a v6 we’re Path finishes on a V10 so I decided to call it 9a!