First ascent of a 6a+

In order to have a little mnemonic of ascents of my climbing friends and me, I am going to make by-and-by some posts of our most imortant climbings.

At the 8th of March Rocka and I had again a trip to the Trevor Rocks Area in the Clwyd Limestone in Wales. It was a bit windy but overall a nice and sunny day. We were not sure of our fitnisses, because the night before there was a funny fancy dress party, with a couple of Carlings at the Students Union of NEWI. ;-)

First we started with easy routes of 5, 5+ and a 6a and we became confident to try something harder. So finally I climbed on-sight "Forever the Suspect" a 14m 6a+ with 'Very nice climbing up the calcite wall past a rock scar.' from Gary Gibson (09/07/05). After me Rocka climbed the route in red point. His first 6a+ at all!

Later I've tryed a 6b and did it almost, but I've avoided a difficulty and risky move under the second last bolt and put the quickdraw finally in a bolt of a parallel route, 2m at the right side. So this will be a nice project for the next visit to the Trevor Rocks.

At this link you can find a comparison of the most important international climbing grades.