Moritz Welt ticks Unplugged (9a)

Moritz Welt, with 13 routes 9a and beyond under his harness, only in Frankenjura, has done Unplugged (9a). (c) Daoud Sadlowski

Can you tell us more about the ascent and the process behind?
I am currently having my annual spring home season. As I have done most of the established routes in Frankenjura I'm interested in, I am recently more focused on developing new lines here. But as most of these are so hard that I am not ready to give send tries yet, I need to try something else in the meantime that feels actually doable :)

Luckily there are still a few classics missing on my ticklist, and Unplugged was one of them, maybe even the most prominent one. It's the second 9a in Frankenjura (FA by Markus Bock 2003), so notably the first one after AD, which was established 12 years earlier! I had tried it before but was a bit intimidated to try again, because there was this last boulder that felt quite hard for me. Turns out this season I was finally ready! Took me 2 sessions to do the top crux from the left (which makes it a hard 8c) and 3 more to finally link everything together from the Unplugged start! :)