I had planned to go hang out at the Cromlech Boulder to try and find a few climbers to test for a pilot study for my thesis, unfortunately all the parking spaces were full of Snowdon Walkers, if only they found there way to the proper park and ride down the road, we could get some afternoon cragging done.
What this resulted in was me having to park at the Craig Ddu end of the Valley. So rather than walk up to the boulders where surprisingly there weren’t any climbers I head out for a bit of a Sol-Run. I jogged up to Craig Ddu and soloed Rib and Slab; then headed to the Crouchan were I soloed Nea; then the Wastad and Crack Stone Rib before finishing up on Spiral Stairs on Dinas Cromlech.
What surprised me wasn’t the time it took (under two hours), or how hard the running, but i expected that the climbing would allow me to recover, however it just seemed to keep going at a similar level to the jogging. I tried this circuit as a prelude to possibly trying all the Classic Rock for in Snowdonia (not the tremadog Craig Dhu Wall and mid wales’ willo the wisp) in a day.
I met Libby Pete’s at the cromlech today, and having told her about my stupid idea, she sounded keen to come along so I might have company, and may even venture to take a rope as well.