Trebannog Pics

These pics have been taken from Right to left as you face the cliff from the road.

Mission 2009

South Wales has a wealth of climbs mainly recored in the South Wales climbing guide as well as the Pembrokshire guide. UKClimbing.com has a comprehensive directory of the climbs available but there is a serious shortage of photographs. I don't know about you ,but I like to see what a location looks like before diving in, especially if you've never been there before. A couple of times this year we hiked through woods and up mountains only to be met with a very poor range of climbs.

So, our mission this year is to photograph and post on this blog, and where appropriate, on UKClimbing.com as many South Wales climbing locations as possible to give a true representation of what's on offer.

Check this space soon.....

Bouldering Western Australia

Albany, Western Australia, is the centre for sea cliff climbing in the area. However, as a lot of the routes require an abseil in, bouldering is hard to come-by. The guide for the area suggests that there is bouldering within the town of Albany (Serpentine Drive, View Street and Mount St. Clements), however, these rocks were found to be in a neglected state with excessive moss and dense vegetation at the base.

However, exquisite bouldering with a sandy landing was to be found at Elephant Cove near Denmark, W.A., 35 km west of Albany. Here the beach and surrounding coast is strewn with
enormous granite monoliths. Perhaps some Deep Water Solos could be found by someone
with imagination?

Witches Point, Ogmore UPDATE!

Witches Point
Witches point is the promentory on the left hand side of Dunraven Bay, Southerndown. The routes are predominantly sports routes on very steep limestone, typically in the high 6's - 7's. Whilst some of the protection was placed in the 1980's, Roy Thomas has been busy replacing the old worn out in-situ gear on Tufa Terrace and some of the routes in White Witch Cave using donations from the South Wales Bolt Fund.

Access to some of higher climbing areas (i.e. Tufa Terrace and The Gantry) was previously via very precarious paths from above. We have recently introduced two new bolted routes which now allow protected access to these areas. These are PCB 5b to access Tufa Terrace, and Pasty = Man Boobs 5, which tops out at the base of The Gantry.

The Laminated Photo Topo has now been completed for Witches Point and this topo, along with several other new photo topos for new sports crags in the area, will be appearing soon at local shops and climbing walls retailing at £3 each. Further details are available at http://www.southwalesboltfund.co.uk/.

WARNING! Kris visited Morlais Quarry recently. His car was broken into so be careful if you parking in this area.

Dave's Artistic Impression of the Forthcoming X3