June 9th-11th
The miraculous weather continues to hold good and the planned weekend was given the GO-CODE. A last minute booking for two nights B&B at the Bryn Glo in Capel Curig and the mission was on for some outlaw adventures in
North Wales
BP arrives at the BRYN GLO residence
Nice and private upstairs rooms...
Bryn Glo Base. Checked in at 14.15 and quick drive to Betws-y-Coed and a short walk up the through the woods to launch a long weekend of climbing capers at
Colgwyn Cirau
BP on Long Climb Direct.
A bit bold for opening severe
Great vistas
Cravate de rigeur in the heat
AT nerves jangling at the base of the bulging groove on P1 of Jingling Wall
(HS 4b)
Steep moves to a rest.
Spend a while fiddling in gear and wondering which way to go.
Straight up on tenuous moves to a balancy rock over
BP followed up the leftside and found good holds to pull through leaning corner
Thats the way matey!
P2 equally sustained
BP (upper left) silhouettes his way up the finishing wall.
At lower left
Sundowners at the Local Tyn-y-Coed Inn
Honest pub grub
Hatched plan for day 2
Moel y Siabod (872m)
Sunday arrived warm. Sport plan fine tuned for ease of access maximum climbing minimum slogging and optimum challenge. Headed for the far reaches of Tremadog and the welcoming rock of the wonderfully named
Pant Ifan
L-R
KTM HS4a
Mistook VS4c
Gwynedd VS4b
MTN S4a
AT mincing about below the hard moves on Gwynedd
Hand jams and foot smearing above good gear leads to a big PHEW and more gear.
Kettle boiling.
The crozzly wall on Mistook offers small sharp pocket holds
Last gear in before heading left to make improbable shapes up the impending groove
Brilliant
All sorted
Stake belays make life easy on all the routes
AT despatches yet another groove on Bulging Wall
HS4a
Delightful climbing up the rough rock of the finishing wall.
Offsets rule today
BP on MTN (S)
BP gets ready to finish things off - a cracking day
Easy access
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User friendly
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Some shade
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Enough challenge
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No crowds
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All requirements fully met!
Dark clouds are out of shot. Made it to the pub just as the deluge hit!
Monday
Slept in. Made it down for 8.45 and a belting black pudding and bacon breakfast by our host Eirian. (No beans)
BP hatches an eggcellent plan for another quality day. A short drive and ten minute walk then plenty of climbing to do before an afternoon getaway at
Tryfan Fach
Those big Tryfan routes look a long way away, glad we don't have to get up there!
Must be sixty degrees of freedom on the whopper slab
Route 1
Route 2
Route 1 (L) proved a bit tense in approach shoes, got an embarrassing attack of the dropsies whilst fiddling on belay.
Oops.
BP working a way up Mossy Slab
Mosslessly misnomered
Long pitch, had to move together for 4m or so.
AT follows, getting familiar with the Scarpa shoe friction on the superb rock.
Surprising how well the crag has weathered the decades of traffic.
No grooves today!
Route 2 finishes off all the fun.
A megga pitch with a run out middle section
Spicy, but great
Climber below had just been told she'd no more rope....
CymRu Rules!
SO MUCH MORE TO DO
More pics
here
Drive times
Out
11.00 am - 14.10pm
Return
14.30 - 17.40
Accommodation
Bryn Glo
