Friday 17 September 2010

Cilan Head & The Path to Rome

With the weathers bad in the mountains Me and Glyn decided to do what all hardened climbers do, Run away to to the coast were it not raining.We ended up on the Llynpenisenla. Were the sun was shining and the crags were dry. With Glyn working at 6 it was only a flying visit. Our minds set on The Path to Rome a two pitch E3 5c, 5c. The first pitch is a 46m raising traverse along gritstonesk breaks above the sea. The second pitch takeing you to the top of the crag. The second pitch has some nice climbing but the first pitch is the one.
  With both of us wanting the glory of the main pitch we toss a coin and Glyn chose tales Wales never fails, But lucky for me it failing for him meaning i had the Main pitch (Psyche!!). In the Guide book it says something about taking two racks of medium sized cam and it ain't wrong as i used all two set with easy. The climbing on the first pitch is fairly straightforward  With an amazing atmostphere, with only one tricky section.Which allow me to soak up the surroundings. All in all it soft for the grade but would be a ball ache if you were to fell off because you would have nothing to pull yourself back onto the route with. The second pitch was over in a flash once glyn had racked up. from the belay their is a couple of move of 5b which takes you into the upper groove with a sort section of vertical grass climbing. we had been given some beta to drop a ab rope down the top out section as a mean of passing this section stress free and it worked.

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