Scrambles in Snowdonia - Steve Ashton
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DylanDesachJones | 7 Jul, 2020 |
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βeta: Followed the ashton guidebook. After the spiky ridge it says to take the right hand rib of the v groove slightly on your left ,do not use the left because it is unstable. I found myself in quite a precarious position with the only available gear being a thread around a supporting column that was hollow sounding!! The tower at the end was fun with some great climbing but again the obvious belay at the end is unsteady | ||
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βeta: Followed the ashton guidebook. After the spiky ridge it says to take the right hand rib of the v groove slightly on your left ,do not use the left because it is unstable. I found myself in quite a precarious position with the only available gear being a thread around a supporting column that was hollow sounding!! The tower at the end was fun with some great climbing but again the obvious belay at the end is unsteady |
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Astilath | 27 Jun, 2019 |
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βeta: At time of writing, I've been up 68/80 of the routes in the Steve Ashton guidebook. Including Yr Esgair and a few more obscure ones. This is by far the most loose, crumbly route I've done. Not sure how much help rope, nuts and slings would be. They would probably just pull stuff off in the event of a fall! Its possible to escape the route before the loosest part of the tower by going up the right of the right hand gully next to the crazy pinnacle on its left side. I did that accidentally, following good rock. I checked the tower out from the top, reversed my route down the pinnacle (awfully loose and sketchy) and then finished the route properly! If you've not done many sketchy loose routes yet, I recommend to save this one for later. :-) | βeta? | |
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βeta: At time of writing, I've been up 68/80 of the routes in the Steve Ashton guidebook. Including Yr Esgair and a few more obscure ones. This is by far the most loose, crumbly route I've done. Not sure how much help rope, nuts and slings would be. They would probably just pull stuff off in the event of a fall! Its possible to escape the route before the loosest part of the tower by going up the right of the right hand gully next to the crazy pinnacle on its left side. I did that accidentally, following good rock. I checked the tower out from the top, reversed my route down the pinnacle (awfully loose and sketchy) and then finished the route properly! If you've not done many sketchy loose routes yet, I recommend to save this one for later. :-) |
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