Let's Go Climb

Caswell - the sun is going down, but there's still 2 hours of light - let's go...

Nat Not on the Great Slab is a bit bizarre, but awesome wierd climbing.. I've never seen somebody under 6ft use this right hand hold..

Catrin will have no prob bridging this.

And then the perfect slab

Look over your shoulder, the tide is coming in !!

So, Ieuan's turn, using holds I never saw!!

Inventing new moves... Almost finding a sit down rest!!

Catrin's turn, she's climbed 7a indoors, so this was no big deal!

There's the bridge... Taking a rest..

As Catrin finishes, Tanya knows she's next - time for her fun..

This was at Paviland Main Cliff

Ieuan loving it..

Catrin - always finding a way to wear the hat, and finding the smallest holds!

Tanya having an awesome time

At the last minute the Sage family (Meg - the dog, Paul, Tanya, Catrin and Ieuan) were to visit Gower again, so it was time to think of somewhere new to go for them. As usual Catrin wanted something hard, Tanya wanted a fun day out, and Meg didn't want to go over or under ANY stile! I wanted to get as many routes done with the team as poss in a single day.... Oh - and we had to find a perfect weather day between all the rain.. Wednesday didn't look too bad - Tuesday looked awful, so it was Wed then.. Yes, the sun did come out for the Sage family as usual, it was actually positively warm for most of the day - I never needed a warm jacket, awesome...

So we headed off to Gower and the Paviland Main Cliff. I had a plan in my head which invloved the through cave 2 pitch route and the unusual Shelob exiting through a 50cm wide limestone roof hole (!) , but Catrin announced that she wanted a test so we went for the steeper and overhanging stuff. I'd lined her up with the cliff HS classic, but as usual she managed to stray off route onto E2 ground (5C), later stating that yes, it was 'quite hard!'.. After a few more of these, Tanya, Ieuan and Catrin took a break form the steep stuff and enjoyed food stuff, including xmas cake - always a winner... Xmas, already, really!!!

We then relocated to Caswell for something very different! A bit cruel perhaps, knowing that you need a 6ft arm span to reach the holds on the target climb 'Nat Not'** - so let's see how Tanya, Catrin (10 years) and Ieuan (13 years) get on! Let's just say that Catrin and Ieuan enjoyed some air time - always awesome, and as ever they loved it! As daylight ran out, along with the parking ticket - we had to stop climbing - never good!! On Friday Catrin has a performance climbing test at the new Reading wall to join their performance climb elite team (she's only 10!!)...