One summer - Tryfan Bach

Tryfan Bach is a great little cliff just off the main A5. It's a 180' slab with plenty of holds and most of the routes having loads of gear as well - although a couple are a little blank. I did a lot of early leading   there in the mid 90's and have taken others (including Liz) there to do some leading as well. Getting back into climbing - and moving to Oldham which is a lot closer to N. Wales than Cumbria ever was!! - it seemed like a good idea for a revisit.

We 've actually been about 3 times and done most of the main routes on the slab. As it is purely for wussies (with nothing harder than VS there) the atmosphere is usually pretty relaxed. Claire, being Claire, ran up the harder lines and then had a bit of a wobble on the Moderate Arete which I did as the last climb of that day!! - oh well.  We tend to try and get there reasonably early and leave about mid-afternoon, as the crag starts to get mega busy at that point. Most of the routes have a little polish, but there is nothing too bad and it's a great place to go.

Looking to the hills of the mainland from Anglessey

One summer...

start of a series where I'll blog about what the two of us have got up to over the summer of 2013.


Bouldering at Wimberry

Claire has climbed before - however that was a fair few years ago - and I have barely climbed in 5 years  - so we are both rusty. Having done a few climbs at Windgather Rocks ( a lovely grit outcrop in the W peaks which specialises in easy routes) we thought a session getting us both used to the vagaries of smearing and using pebbles would be good - it was.

We found a lovely slab by a stream and had a prolonged play on it - even at my peak of climbing ability, I was far worse on grit than any other type of rock. Part of this is due to my aversion to jamming whilst I am also used to the positive holds and long pitches of the Lakes and the Dolomites - so the session was very good for me as well...

Lots of updates...

sorry for the lack of posts - things are busy here with teaching and running around as well....

However.....

we left Suilvan in Anglessey; where we had a lovely weekend of climbing and walking by the sea - followed by some routes on Tryfan Bach (Little Tryfan); a great place for people getting back into climbing/newish to climbing as Claire and I are. I found the place to be good and it was good to be able to lead some easyish and safe routes. It was a glorious day, just lovely to be out and about again in N. Wales - as can be seen from the photo's

Looking across to the mainland from Anglessey