Over the weekend of 24th, 25th and 26th June more than forty members of the club went to the Station Campsite at Carrog in North Wales.
The friends & family weekend is a relaxed chilled event organised primarily as a social occasion so that friends and families of the climbing club can get together. Ages range from children of six and seven with their parents to grandparents of sixty and seventy all having a nice time together.
The friends & family weekend is a relaxed chilled event organised primarily as a social occasion so that friends and families of the climbing club can get together. Ages range from children of six and seven with their parents to grandparents of sixty and seventy all having a nice time together.
We all started off as campers and that’s what most people do but there are a smattering of caravans and campers van now too.
We all arrived Friday evening and set up in the pouring rain.
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| How many kids are there? |
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| CHARGE!!! |
Three of the keener climbers amongst us went to try and find some climbing and sunshine towards the Colwyn Bay coast and had a very successful day which Darron has described in more detail below.
As the walkers got back to the campsite, and Melly arrived from Crewe having dealt very bravely with a collapsed kitchen ceiling, the sun started to come out.
It stayed bright for the evening when we all had a bbq together and celebrated Darron’s xxx birthday with cake and wine and sausages!
On Sunday, the climbers went off climbing to Trevor Rocks and before packing up late afternoon, a group of people went for a walk through the forests of the Carrog Plantation while mums and dads and children went kayaking in a calm section of the River Dee near the Pont Carrog.
Suzanne
Climbing
Kevin had driven for 6 hours from his home in East Sussex to be with us for the weekend so, clearly, a priority for the climbers would be ensuring he ‘got a bit done’!
Things did not start well as Saturday morning dawned wet (mind you we did not see much of the dawn due to a thorough ‘clothes drying’ session in the pub the night before)
Castle Inn Quarry near Colwyn Bay has a reputation for being quick drying and its bolted routes should ensure getting something done. So it proved. Kevin, myself and Marion ticked the 3* classics of Route 1 (F5) and Route 2 (F6a). Not very inspiring names but genuinely good routes. Marion led Inspiration (F4) and I climbed the fingery wall to the left which is hopefully a new route at about F6a. If it is new it will be called ‘Birthday Boy’ because I was. Altogether 8 routes ticked on a day we expected nothing – so far so good.
Err……BBQ’s……not good for an early start! Weather was fantastic though and the climbing team grew to include Mark, Kate and Lauren O, Gaz, Kate G and for his first ever climb, Ash.
Trevor Rocks Quarry is a beautiful place to climb and we all got stuck in enthusiastically. Kate and Lauren Owen did really well as they were climbing an F4 without rock shoes. Ash managed to get up a tough F5 for his first route. Kevin, clearly on something of a roll from yesterday, climbed Haven’t got a Clue (F6a – but felt F6a+ to me). Kevin myself and Marion then moved along the edge in search of some meatier stuff. I led Super Furry Frogs (F6A) and Kevin climbed Long Legged Lizard from Liverpool (F6a). Nobody could complain about the route names being boring.! To finish off a really good day Kevin pushed himself to the max to tick Borderline (F6a+) with 2 falls (but no submission!). So, there we go - yet another good weekend. And Kevin? I suspect he had a big grin on his face on his long journey south.
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| Trevor Rocks from the Fort |
Darron
A grand weekend was had by all and a big thank you to Marion for organizing the camp site.
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