The Very Big and the Very Small


Pete Robins was close to having one of the best days climbing it is possible to have in North Wales. To start with Pete rocked up to the Rainbow Slab and very narrow missed out on making a much converted ascent of Johnny Dawes The Very Big and The Very Small a F8b(+) slab. Failing that Pete nipped up the Pass to try a boulder problem that is at the other end of the vertical spectrum, ‘Pool of Bethesda’ first climbed by Paul Higginson is the hardest roof problem in the pass if not North Wales.

Despite trashing his fingers on the painfully thin slab, Pete got the ascent of Pools of Bethesda. If your interested in where the name comes from it is in reference to the famous picture of a load of dogs playing pool, and the story goes that Paul walked into a bar in Bethesda and saw that exact scene! Still its not as bad as the full name given to and reference to Manchester Dogs another of Paul’s problems at angel bay.

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