A good evening at Trevor Rocks

We've had a few glorious midweek evenings now over at Trevor Rocks near Llangollen. This kind of climbing would have been unimaginable just a few years ago in the UK - time was that to justify using a bolt, you had to be climbing E-eleventeen! Not any more, and we've found some really nice routes over at this pictuesque spot -a really lovely place to climb as the sun is going down. We found ourself on this occasion at Compact Wall, where the lovely "Over the Wall" rises bottom right to top left. Either with a (sensible) soft 6a finish in the obvious place, or a (silly) hard 6a+ finish heads further left and makes some very hard moves to gain the chain 2 more to the left. I had a go a few weeks ago, but thought better of it!

From the start of this climb also rises "I met a man from Mars", which heads straight up via a layback flake. Lovely climbing, and 6a, if you use your feet right. Here's some pics Tim doing just that, in the last of the sun.










Here's a link to the routes there from Gary Gibson's website.

...and an idea of the view...
Cheers,
Dave