[Davo]

Hi All

I have had a good look in the guide and online but can’t find this.

I remember either a news item detailing a long (lowball ) traverse done in North Wales relatively recently. I think the sport grade of 7c+ was mooted. It looked like it was a long rising wall in a quarry?

Does anyone remember this? Am off there this week and wouldn’t mind trying it

Cheers

Dave

[dontfollowme]

Was it whale shark Gideon quarry?

[Davo]

Thanks but not certain. Have googled Whale Shark and it comes up on UKC but nowhere else and no info about it

[Davo]

Have just checked and it definitely isn’t Whale Shark. This is a long vert wall that is maybe 30-50m in length. Might be slightly overhanging but not a lot

[Ross Barker]

It's not Super Collider at Bryn y Dyfrgi is it? Not a quarry but quite long.

[teestub]

That’s the one that sprung to mind for me, but not in a quarry, doesn’t look particularly lowball, and a few grades too hard!

http://www.northwalesbouldering.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=921

[Ross Barker]

That’s the one that sprung to mind for me, but not in a quarry, doesn’t look particularly lowball, and a few grades too hard!

http://www.northwalesbouldering.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=921

A few good points there however the original "Collider" rates at French 7c+, which does fit the bill.

[Davo]

No, definitely not that one. Looks great though.

This thing looks similar rock to Ystrad in North Wales.

I wonder if I have imagined this thing?

[Ross Barker]

In the new guide there is an Ystrad where there is a traverse that might fit the bill, page 655. Apparently surrounded by death holes, if that jogs any memory.

[Davo]

Checked that already cheers!

[petejh]

Hi Dave, it sounds like Callum’s traverse in the slate quarry above Rachub, near Bethesda. ‘Flattening the Curve’ (done during the plague). Page 266 in the new guide - ‘Bethesda Oddities’.
Defo a local’s venue. Think Zippy has done a few new routes around there too.

Went up to have a play on Super collider last year. Sharp pockets, long walk, seepy. Wasn’t smitten enough to return.

[Davo]

Hi Pete

I messaged Simon Panton and both him and you seem to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of problems done in the area! He confirmed that it was indeed Rachub quarry and a traverse called Flattening the Curve.

I did suspect that it was not an amazing area but I have done most stuff that is lowball and quick access (I am generally on my own with few pads and short of time on a family holiday). So I wondered about whether it was worth finding it

Cheers

Dave