The Pass

Waking up early on Saturday morning after half a bottle of vodka and a pizza I felt in prime condition to go climbing and decided to take Bob up on the offer to go bouldering in Wales for the weekend.

Soon we there were four of us packed into the car with mats etc. and we were on the road to Wales. Driving out of Sheffield and over the Snake Pass the conditions in the Peak looked terrible with a thick mist shrouding the hills. I was wondering whether we were actually going to be able to climb in Wales and also whether last nights pizza was going to stay in my stomach.

When we got near to Llandudno for Parisellas Cave and there was bright sunshine it was decided that we could probably climb in the mountains, a quick change of route later and we arrived in a sunny Llanberis Pass.

First stop was the Cromlech Boulders, I was pretty psyched to climb on a new rock type, though I had few issues with me being shit, having no skin and painful holds.

On a V5 up the overhanging face of the boulder to the left of Browns crack i got to test out my camera on the photogenic Theo!

            Theo Concentrating on the V5

We Then Moved onto The Edge Problem V5, I was pretty stoked to do this problem as it looked like my style, however I didn’t manage it (I'm blaming my bad skin!). Luckily its a team effort and Both Barrows and Theo sent the problem.

 Theo on Roadside Right-hand V2

 Barrows Lanking Edge Problem

For the rest of Saturday Bob, Theo and Barrows tried Jerrys Roof and Bus Stop while I attempted to learn to climb and generally lost more of my precious skin.

After a good nights sleep in a handy car-park and a massive bowl of porridge for breakfast we felt ready for a day of crushing.

We returned to the edge problem which Bob despatched, I decided to focus on learning to climb and started to put down the mileage on easy problems.

 Bob on Edge Problem V5

There was then some success on Jerry’s and I continued my mission to learn how to climb. We then decided to head over to Ogwen Valley to climb on some different rock, we ended up at a very windy Sheep Pen which so far has been one of the most inspiring bouldering I've been too, the problems to me look like bouldering and are in an amazing setting; the long walk in was worth it with a satisfying no. of problems done between us. As it got dark, it was time to leave the beauty of the mountains and head back to Sheffield.

 The View From Cromlech Boulders