Had a gripping drive up to Llyn Crafnant toady. It’s a three or four kilometre drive up a steep, tiny and winding road that was quite simply not designed to accommodate a brand new, long wheel base Transit, such as the one that I unfortunately found myself at the helm of. Crawling along at a Read more

An eight o’clock high tide, with forecasted light winds and nice waves necessitated a bleary eyed exit from The Cottage this morning. The predictions turned out to be a tad optimistic though, as we arrived at the beach to find a howling onshore wind! It was a beauty blue sky morning though, so we got Read more

After a wet start, things brightened up enough this afternoon for a little foray into the Skyline area of the Llanberis Slate Quarries.  The wind chill was even colder than previous days, so once again we were all layered up. We climbed ‘Harri Bach Llanrug’ (6a), which was nice but cold on the pinkies!  I’ve Read more

Had an excellent evenings climbing in he Ogwen Valley. Bochlwyd Buttress is only an easy twenty minute walk from Ogwen Cottage and catches the afternoon and evening sun. With not a cloud in the sky, or any other climbers about, it felt like we had the whole valley to ourselves. Although the skies were clear, Read more

It’s only a few minutes to drive from The Cottage into the scenic Ogwen valley. Parking up below Tryfan, having only just left the house, made us feel particularly grateful that we are able to live where we do.  Up at slabs of Tryfan Bach (Little Tryfan), we climbed a few routes and were able Read more

Third time lucky! After two aborted attempts this week, we finally got to try out our new ropes in the Llanberis Slate Quarry. The threat of rain still lingered and the winds provided a decent chill, but we still managed a couple of routes in Never Never Land.  The shiny new ropes – 8.2 DMM Read more