World's End and Craig Y Tonnau 24th & 25th April 08

Just back from two days with the guys from ProAdventure in Llangollen learning a few techniques for setting up single pitch climbs.

Day one saw us heading out to the limestone crags at 'World's End'. A fabulous place with dozens of routes but, more importantly, a good number of natural anchors to learn setting the rigs to climb.



Here we set a couple of routes to allow bottom rope climbs on simple HVD and S grades.



For day two the weather turned very wet so we head off to Craig Y Tonnau. A crag with strange rippled, igneous rock where grip is not a problem in the wet. The only problem here was the lack of natural anchors and the need to use gear to set our rigs.



We set two top rope routes here including a rig using a single rope demonstrating different techniques that can lead to multi pitch climbing. After setting another couple of routes (we forgot the guide book so didn’t know the grades) we spent the afternoon climbing the face.

Next steps...

1. Get the credit card out for some rope
2. Find a willing volunteer to come climbing.... anybody?

Richard S