Tuesday 29 September 2015

Carreg Wastad - Climbing in the Llanberis Pass.

The North Wales 'Indian Summer' continues! Had decided to go into Ogwen, but having seen the shady cliffs and felt the nippy wind blowing, we aborted and re-routed to the sunny side of the Llanberis Pass.


Here, at the cliff of Carreg Wastad, we climbed three classic climbs, starting with Crackstone Rib.



This was quickly followed by Skylon HS (4b), which is a really good little climb.



Then finally, before heading off, we nipped up Shadow Wall VS (4c), which has a great top pitch, which feels super exposed! Instead of topping out, we abseiled from this route back to the bags (60m), which went quite well, apart from having to negotiate the holly tree half way down!


All this was followed by chips in Pete's Eats, washed down by a brew a friend's new house in Llanberis. Then to top it all off, on the drive home there was another real stunner of a sunset that we stopped to show some appreciation to before arriving back at The Cottage.



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