Mousetrap
Tucks Rift
Tucks Rift
A Dream of White Horses
Amphitheatre Buttress
Carreg Wastad
Tucks Rift
Eye of the beholder
CC Aspirants Meet, Castell Helen
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We drove from Cumbria to North Wales as early as we could manage Saturday morning to get at least one good route in before the Climbers Club's Welsh dinner. The sun was fully out and there was no wind - a glorious day - so we headed over to South Stack on Anglesey...
Since last weeks disappointment we had found out from the land owner that in the week before our previous dive attempt a farmer further up the valley had sprayed the bracken in his fields. In light of this information we now assume that it was the chemical that had stained the water...
After the previous dive at Tucks Rift both of us (Andy and Colin) had high hopes for the day’s trip...
I think Laetitia was fairly pleased with herself today - she'd fancied doing "Dream" for ages...
Sunday's weather wasn't quite as sunny as forecast, but that wasn't gonna get in the way of our planned adventure up to Craig Yr Ysfa to show Dave & Fiona up the awesome mountaineering classic - Amphitheater Buttress...
The joint CC, FRCC bank holiday meet at Ynys Ettws was a great social event...
After enough good weather in the Hepste valley in South Wales Andy and Colin thought Tucks Rift might be in condition. This is a long term project that has resulted in us finding about 100 m of previously unexplored passage and one aven with an impassable surface connection...
Look forward to some good shots on these pages...
We were super lucky at this year's CC Aspirant members meet - the weather forecast looked poor. Whilst many headed for the reliability of Tremadog, we chose wisely and went to a sunny and dry (but a little windy) Anglesey to visit Castell Helen. Sea cliff adventure climbing - exciting...