Making the most of the bad weather

Team members Rich, Laura and Michael have been getting out a little in between the constant rainstorms that have been plaguing the UK over the last few weeks.

 Llandudno

First up was a trip to the familiar Marine Drive, a guaranteed wet weather option when the rest of the uk is gopping.

Michael preparing to take the Swing of Fire

Laura ticked through the up problems in Split Ininity cave and Rich conquered a nemesis in the super frustrating blind slap problem of Bell Pig . Not to be outdone Michael got the tricky heel-toe to stick on Broken Heart and made no mistakes, finishing smoothly up Clever Beaver for another good cave tick.

Rich finishing Swing of Fire

With the cave being a bit busy (roughly 20+ people trying to climb!), a trip up the hill to Breck Road was in order. Rich managed to flash Breck Road and Texas Karaoke Massacre before flying off the cut loose on Swing of Fire and getting it 2nd go.

Laura managed to get Burning Sphincter and was really close on Breck Road only to slide off the top holds.

Laura on Breck Road

Braichmelyn & The Pass

With a sunny and cold day forecast we had planned to visit Crafnant valley but an unforecast shower swept through and we headed to Bethesda to check out the Braichmelyn 'Super Bloc'.

It is an old skool razor crimps venue once frequented by the likes of John Redhead who put up some horrificly finger unfriendly problems. Laura had done Central Wall before and quickly added the sitter to this, before a rapid ascent of Klemov Crack. Rich climbed Central Wall SS, The arete SS, Spring Juice and finally Klimov Crack which cost a split tip! :( Michael did the Arete SS and Central Wall SS before declaring the venue not to his tastes and waited until we moved on!

Amazingly, we managed to get parking in the pass and after a brief rewarm, Laura crushed Johnny's Wall SS while we watched on amazed! Rich attempted Diesel Power but found the left crimp a bit hard work with a freshly split tip and tape on. He got the moves worked out but a redpoint wasn't on and the day was rounded off with a trip to Georgio's for ice cream in Llanberis!