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Monday, July 27, 2009

Holyhead Mountain..

James Edwards and I visited Holyhead Mountain this evening on the way back to North Wales. I must admit that I have frequently walked past this crag heading to Gogarth's Main Cliff, not really giving it a second glance.

Of course the reality is that the climbing here is as good as any at Gogarth. We opted for the Yellow Wall climbing 'King Bee Crack' HVS 5a and 'Breaking the Barrier' E1 5b.

I had always fancied the steep diagonal crack line of 'Katana' E4 6a (pictured), and gave it a go with much tussling mixed with a few expletives. Room for improvement; but a deep satisfying pump at the end of the evening is aways worthwhile...

posted by James Thacker at 10:40 PM

4 Comments:

  • Good effort Youth - always fancied getting deep into the Katana pump myself - but never got round to feeling BANZAI enough. Took a few air miles myself down the Arve Valley yesterday.....

    By Anonymous Robin Jarvis, at 1:22 PM  

  • At least Katana is a bit shorter than those big limestone sport routes!..

    By Blogger James Thacker, at 9:10 PM  

  • "room for improvement" does that mean you frigged it?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:51 PM  

  • If you aren't anonymous then I'll tell you the full story... ;)

    By Blogger James Thacker, at 6:05 PM  

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