T-shirt rock climbing

Today was one of those days where you say to your partner at the end of the day 'There can't be many other places in the world that are as good to live as North Wales'.

Rhys on 'Truant'

Me and Rhys headed over to Rhoscolyn with the hope that it would be in the sun all day, out of any wind and its not too committing if we were to get frozen. It worked out perfectly. The day was just bliss. We wore only t-shirts from the moment we realised we were absolutely baking after the first route. And even then we were warm.

Rhys on the first pitch of 'Icarus'

I have never climbed there before, Rhys has done a load of stuff there though. We started on 'Truant' (VS 4c) as he had never done it before. Rhys lead it in about 3 minutes. The route only has 1 real move in it.
From there we did 'Icarus' (HVS 5a) which has a great first move (in the picture) and a good top pitch. Then I did 'The Wild Rover' (E1 5b), which seemed very bold to start but overall was a nice steady route. I have just found out there used to be a bolt in the bold first part of the route, that explains why it was quite bold then!

Me leading 'The Wild Rover'

Rhys finished up 'The Savage Sunbird' (E2 5b), which was a pretty desperate route on lead, with fairly spaced gear, some of it not amazing. It was brilliant on second though whith nice moves.

So 4 decent routes in the sun. what more could you ask for?