Carreg Altrem
Climber’s Club Welsh Dinner
Mousetrap
Tucks Rift
Tucks Rift
A Dream of White Horses
Amphitheatre Buttress
Carreg Wastad
Tucks Rift
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We were very tired after a bad nights sleep due to three snorers in Ynws Ettws' bunk room and a little too much wine! So after a hearty Pete Eats breakfast in Llanberis we decided a nice easy day was called for...
The Welsh dinner was preceded by an EGM regarding the proposed new Lakes hut - check out the CC web site for more details on that...
We drove from Cumbria to North Wales as early as we could manage Saturday morning to get at least one good route in before the Climbers Club's Welsh dinner. The sun was fully out and there was no wind - a glorious day - so we headed over to South Stack on Anglesey...
Since last weeks disappointment we had found out from the land owner that in the week before our previous dive attempt a farmer further up the valley had sprayed the bracken in his fields. In light of this information we now assume that it was the chemical that had stained the water...
After the previous dive at Tucks Rift both of us (Andy and Colin) had high hopes for the day's trip...
I think Laetitia was fairly pleased with herself today - she'd fancied doing "Dream" for ages...
Sunday's weather wasn't quite as sunny as forecast, but that wasn't gonna get in the way of our planned adventure up to Craig Yr Ysfa to show Dave & Fiona up the awesome mountaineering classic - Amphitheater Buttress...
The joint CC, FRCC bank holiday meet at Ynys Ettws was a great social event...
After enough good weather in the Hepste valley in South Wales Andy and Colin thought Tucks Rift might be in condition. This is a long term project that has resulted in us finding about 100 m of previously unexplored passage and one aven with an impassable surface connection...