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