Welcome to North Wales Rock

Sun 20 May 2012

 

North Wales Rock Climbing is a site that aims to highlights some of the best trad, sport and bouldering that the UK has to offer. Focused around Snowdonia National Park, the climbing spans from the summits of the highest peaks to the coast that surround the mountains of three sides. This and the geological nature of north wales, means that it is amongst the diverse areas in the world to go rock climbing, with over nine different type of rock within a 30 mile radius of the hub of the North Wales climbing community, Llanberis.

The delights of North Wales climbing includes the classic climbing areas of:

Not only does each area have its own unique sense of place and style of climbing, many of the areas are made up on numberous individual cliffs which themselves offer their uniqueness to these different climbing sectors. These changes in angle, rock, aspect and altitude means that it is possible to climb year round in North Wales. The low level crags of Gogarth, Tremadog, The Lleyn and North Wales Limestone, not only get better weather, often being in the rain shadow of the mountains. But many are south face and capture to most sun making them idea for climbing year round if the mountains are drapped in cloud and rain. If you are lucky enough to visit Wales during when of its heat waves, then the high mountain crags are likewise the best in the UK.

What this staggering diversity of climbing means is that whether you are starting out learning to climb on the pleasant slabs and buttress of the Ogwen Valley or Moelwyns or you are cruising the extremes in Llanberis Pass or Gogarth, you will climbing across some of the nicest rock in the world. The sheer number of three star classic and historical rock climb have turn north wales into a one of the must visit climbing destinations in the UK if not the world.