By now Will and I were a little bit weary of the Ogwen Valley. I had been out of contact with civilisation for several days and was getting Facebook withdrawal symptoms, I was relaxed, chilled out, and thoroughly enjoying not seeing what everyone was moaning about.
Moving swiftly on.
So we got up and paid a visit to Eric's Cafe. This is another climbing haunt run by the legendary Eric Jones! He sold us a definitive guide book to the area, which gave us lots to think about. The we decided to stick to the original plan.
Hail Beeb - This classic line was a beauty to climb, the belays are all massive trees which makes a pleasant change from building belays with rock gear. Nothing makes you feel more secure than tying yourself to a massive tree (see below).
Moving swiftly on.
So we got up and paid a visit to Eric's Cafe. This is another climbing haunt run by the legendary Eric Jones! He sold us a definitive guide book to the area, which gave us lots to think about. The we decided to stick to the original plan.
Hail Beeb - This classic line was a beauty to climb, the belays are all massive trees which makes a pleasant change from building belays with rock gear. Nothing makes you feel more secure than tying yourself to a massive tree (see below).
Will looking very pleased at his mega belay and good rope management.
After Hail Beeb we abseiled down and made our way back to the van for elevenses. An important part in Tremadog climbing is the ability to drink lots of tea and eat cake. So after coffee and Jamaica cake we thought that we should probably do some more climbing.
We headed over to climb Oberon - A fuller report on this climb can be seen in my September blog posts so I wont go into detail here. In the interests of fullness I should say that Will lead the first and last pitch while I lead the awkward overhanging, thrutchy chimney, its a very interesting chimney. Full respects go out to Jess Bradshaw who led the pitch back in September when we climbed it then.
We headed over to climb Oberon - A fuller report on this climb can be seen in my September blog posts so I wont go into detail here. In the interests of fullness I should say that Will lead the first and last pitch while I lead the awkward overhanging, thrutchy chimney, its a very interesting chimney. Full respects go out to Jess Bradshaw who led the pitch back in September when we climbed it then.
Tree belay selfie.
Finally we headed over to Sheer Khan Right Hand, as you will all know having read all my blog posts Jess and I also did this climb back in September. This time however I climbed the first pitch. a superb pitch up to a muddy belay. Will headed up the second pitch, but didn't fancy the awkward step on the traverse, so headed up the second pitch of Smarter than the average bear - Technically a harder climb, but traverses mess with peoples heads.
As we got to the top it started to rain, which helped make the decision as to what to do next. The obvious answer was to call it a day on climbing and go eat cake and drink tea in Eric's. So thats what we did.
All round a cracking weekends climbing. Thanks to Will Killiner for coming along and climbing with me.
As we got to the top it started to rain, which helped make the decision as to what to do next. The obvious answer was to call it a day on climbing and go eat cake and drink tea in Eric's. So thats what we did.
All round a cracking weekends climbing. Thanks to Will Killiner for coming along and climbing with me.
Me about to abseil down to Will. His white helmet is just visible.