Shane’s last Welsh route?
Month: September 2008
Gazebo
Thirlmere Eliminate
Tryfan
Crummackdale
Leander and the Ribblehead Viaduct
Visit Manly, it’s very… well… Manly
Diving in Botany Bay
Five Days in Sydney
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Shane leaves the UK soon for a new life in NZ, so today was a last chance to realise a long held ambition in the Llanberis Pass...
After yesterday's exertions, it was back to Castle Crag today. While Pete battled on the North crag with Thirlmere Eliminate, Anna and I stayed on the south side and chose Gazebo...
Bloody hell - that top pitch is a sandbag! We'd backed off Thirlmere Eliminate before when we found the sloping ledge below the final crux pitch running with water. So, to put things straight we went back...
Saturday morning at Helyg dawned dry but cool so the east face of Tryfan was deemed suitable for the assembled team of six...
After the excitement of the steam train in the morning we rushed over to Crummackdale to meet up with Anna and Ian for some single pitch limestone adventure...
I've wanted to get a picture of the Ribblehead Viaduct for some time - it's such a fantastic structure. Then I thought how much better it would look with a train actually crossing it...
If you're wondering where the English summer is, it's enjoying a fine winter in Australia!
I've dived on the Great Barrier Reef before, but never anywhere else in Australia, so I figured a couple of days in Sydney would be educational. Today I did two dives at a site called Voodoo...
Five days in Sydney sounds pretty good until you think about the 24 hours of flying required in each direction to get there. That's why I've added a few days of adventure...