In North Wales bouldering Guru, Guidebook producer and all round Mr Nice, has been involved in developing one of the UK premiere training facilities. Dubbed ‘The Mill’ the bouldering facility offers problems from desperate to impossible if you are what might be consider a reasonably good climber. The climbing probably starts at V6 upwards. The concept is based on the ‘School Room’ in Sheffield which had twenty ‘members’ who chipped in for the rent and the cost and time of setting the facility up. I have been invited along a couple of times where I both flailed miserably and took some pictures.
I did manage a problem that the big boys that train there call easy, however it was probably V7! Anyway I hope you enjoy the images.
The only jug on the entire wall!
James Lillie cranking in out.
James King on the Steep Wall
Jemma Powell focuses of the finishing jug!
Jemma Powell
Pete Robin’s who’s put the power of the mill to good use with ascents of Pools of Bethesda V12(?)
Mill Scene
The Man, the Myth, Simon Panton enjoys his vision.
Olly Cain training his front levers, he also showed that training pays off with an ascent of the uber Fontainbleau classic Carnage.