18 of us turned up at Black Rock Sands at various times throughout Friday in superb weather, 17 years after the last family meet there.. Some of us even had our tent up and waiting!! After an evening around the fire and visits to the beach plans were made for Saturday, which dawned hot and sunny. The climbers split into two groups, heading for Cwm Silyn and Tremadog respectively. A walking group also assembled and ascended Moel-y-Gest via a café stop in Borth-y-Gest, a distance of 9 and a half miles over 6 hours, a fine effort on a scorching day.
Meanwhile the children and associated adults headed for the beach! Apart from swimming and being buried in the sand there was Frisbee throwing, jellyfish hunting, scrambling on the rocks and caves and discovering an underground river. All topped off by ice-cream.
Later in the day a bbq was planned and when the climbers eventually returned after a highly successful day, climbing many feet of rock, we congregated and cooked much wonderful food, topped off with a birthday cake for Ben. Included in the evening was what might loosely be called dancing from the children and certain adults who ‘Walked 500 miles’ ‘Kept their hats on’ etc. After a late evening more plans for Sunday, including a walk to Criccieth Castle, more climbing at Tremadog and Milestone Buttress in Ogwen. I can only report on the latter, which was successful with Jaycee-May being introduced to multi-pitch climbing on Rowan Route.
Thanks to all those who made the trip, there will be a few pictures on the Facebook site.
Cheers
Paul Gibson
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