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Photos: Big G


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With the autumn season in full swing Big G delivers some top notch dolerite beauties on the little visited southern flanks of Siabod. The rock is perfect, and in places presents a surface flecked with dimples-so-deep they dapple-the-light!

Dear NWB.com readers,

Occasionally this column has to break with tradition and impart useful information - leading to decent bouldering.

So let’s keep to the facts;

It is to the southeast-facing cwm of Moel Siabod that we turn our attentions (gr 709 547). From Pont-Cyfyng (parking by Cafe 300m sw) the first signs of something special come in the small edges north of the track by the flooded quarry (gr717555). Morsels of perfect rock lead us south west to the ruminant mirror of Llyn-y-Foel with one or two further blocks.

Then a protective ridge points summit-wards to a shapefull sprawl of rock treasure like some queer solidified monster army, set in the majestic elevated cwm, lording over the forested Afon Ystumiau and the rolling defile of Dolwyddelan beyond.

It will be as though light played upon rock as never before, the dimpled friction facets a banquet to the eye. Pairings of raven will cluck overhead in rushing arcs of joy, calling in the cold bright days of autumn, leaving silence-struck boulderers clutching their mats, at peace with the world and all there-in.

Er...there.

That's pretty much how it is.

Power be to the weak.

Big G

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