Crag: Pandy Quarry/Pen y Fron
Back on rock for the first time in a very long time, so it was nice to go to a new venue, the slightly scruffy quarry near Pantymwyn that I have ran past a few times but never climbed on. Most of the routes are newly bolted and by the standards of UK quarried limestone (not high!) are worthwhile. We kicked off with an awkward and dusty line on the right and then Peter led the slightly harder line of The Urchin, which was a tad overgraded. The line to its right was better, nice moves shuffling out to a vague arete and finishing up this delicately. I then led the route in the middle, Yellow Peril, which has a steep move at the start but then nice, slabby climbing to a slightly steeper finish on good holds. Overgraded again, and a little dusty, but a nice route and confidence boost. As the sun hit the face, we moved round to the meatier part of the crag on the right, much cleaner and steeper, and a fair bit higher with longish 20m pitches. Peter led Alyn Wall, which was a good route. A vague groove/seam trends left with some tricky moves up to a steep bulge. As my layoff has been so long, I am weak, so was quite pleased just to be able to do the moves without getting overly pumped. We both turned the bulge on the right to an easier finish: nice route up the full length of the face. A pint of Butty Bach in the Crown followed.
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