The Lakes and Wales..

The weather has been fairly settled over the last few days allowing a visit to both the Lake District and North Wales.

Andy Turner and myself visited Gimmer Crag in Langdale on Thursday climbing 'Crystal' (E1), 'Poacher' (E1) and the fantastic hybrid of 'Outside Tokyo/Dight' (E1). Despite the fine weather it was very cold in the shade with a significant breeze.


Andy is pictured on the left with a "bouncing bomb" of rope; a handy trick for throwing the abseil ropes in high winds!

The weather in North Wales was a little unsettled with showers on both Saturday and Sunday giving way to brighter conditions in the afternoon. Despite this Paul Knowles and myself visited Gogarth on Saturday to climb 'Central Park' (HVS) and 'Concrete Chimney' (HVS).

Sunday saw us visit the Creag Pant Ifan area of Tremadog to climb the corner system of 'Barbarian' (E1). This fantastic route did live up to it's name with some tricky overlap sections. For a brief look at what it's all about have a look at the video clip below:




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