I can see a theme developing without my realising it. Slate, Slate and more slate. It is certainly premo conditions up there at the moment. We headed out early to catch the morning sun on the Rainbow Slab area. We managed to tick all the Bella Lugosi Slab routes (Horse Latitudes, Bella Lugosi is Dead, Alive and Kicking and Catrin). All of these are really good routes and around the E1/2 or F6a+ mark, often with a little bit of a run out between bolts.
As we did the last few rotues we were joined by a photographer from Rhwlas, he took a few snaps and then followed us round the corner where Si lead Pull My Daisy, perhaps the best route on slate for the grade and certainly a route that is up there for a best in Snowdonia.
Having made rapid work of 5 routes each, we had to admit to ourselves that despite the perfect weather and dry rock that our feet were sadly not used to being crammed into small places and then expected to stand on micro edge after micro edge. So we escaped to Pete’s Eats as if we were some early slate pioneer returning triumphant from another foray into the convent danger of the quarries.
Hopefully we’ll get some more photos soon from the guy we met, and hopefully he’ll let us share his work with you here.
