Well, it was amazing to wake up to blue skies, sunshine and a light breeze. I am possibly every other climber in North Wales was starting to go out of my mind with the weather. As being unable to get out climbing due to a near constant deluge, then cabin fever can start to set in.
Today we headed to Rhoscolyn, and I really wanted to get on a route in Fallen Block Zawn, sadly the tide wasn’t on the same page as us, so after traversing in we traversed all the way back out and climbed Little Queenie, a classic E1. Although I did note that since the demise of the peg, the start is really nasty, as you can potentially deck from about 10m up the route.
Having seen Llion’s limp from half that height, I decided not to let go at any point. However, I am more convinced that the route could possible warrant E2 just for the boldness of the start. Maybe I am getting old, and finding the boldness harder to justify.
Anyway by the time I got to the top the cloud had appeared again, and it instantly turned baltic. We made a hasty retreat home, but at least we managed to get a route in on perhaps one of the only pleasant days in recent history. Hopefully it’ll be nice tomorrow, but I think the weather will turn before too long. So get what you can when you can.