Trip report: A week in Wales
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Friday
It rained during the night and as before this signalled time to move on.
We spent most of the day heading south through Wales, before popping over the border near South Wales. We had a couple of nights booked at a campground we had used before:
Saturday
The purpose of returning to this campground was to do some more climbing at Symmonds Yat. Unfortunately there had been a fair deal of rain and the limestone cliffs were really slippery.
However, the main purpose was not to stretch our climbing abilities, but to spend a day with Alec looking at practical issues of rigging in various locations.
After rigging one climb on the limestone cliffs we moved onto a quarry where the rock would be drier and there would also be different types of rigging required:
Later we returned to the limestone cliffs and rigged a climb there, but that was a slippery nightmare (even the abseil down was tricky). We succeeded, but came away with scrathes, bruises and various muddy bits of clothing. The session had been very useful though and we had a great time.
Saturday
Sunday morning we took a leisurely drive home, stopping for a picnic in the Cotswold hills. We had been moving closer to home with each change of location since Sunday, so the final return journey was only a hundred or so miles.
For once we had a trip with great weather - I guess you have to win at least once.
Cheers,
Steve.
It rained during the night and as before this signalled time to move on.
We spent most of the day heading south through Wales, before popping over the border near South Wales. We had a couple of nights booked at a campground we had used before:
Saturday
The purpose of returning to this campground was to do some more climbing at Symmonds Yat. Unfortunately there had been a fair deal of rain and the limestone cliffs were really slippery.
However, the main purpose was not to stretch our climbing abilities, but to spend a day with Alec looking at practical issues of rigging in various locations.
After rigging one climb on the limestone cliffs we moved onto a quarry where the rock would be drier and there would also be different types of rigging required:
Later we returned to the limestone cliffs and rigged a climb there, but that was a slippery nightmare (even the abseil down was tricky). We succeeded, but came away with scrathes, bruises and various muddy bits of clothing. The session had been very useful though and we had a great time.
Saturday
Sunday morning we took a leisurely drive home, stopping for a picnic in the Cotswold hills. We had been moving closer to home with each change of location since Sunday, so the final return journey was only a hundred or so miles.
For once we had a trip with great weather - I guess you have to win at least once.
Cheers,
Steve.
