Panton's one-man campaign (admittedly aided and abetted with a little help from his friends) to double the size of the Llanberis Pass section in the next revamp of the guide has been running well. There is, at the latest count, over 25 new quality lines in the V4 – V9 range.

A particular high point in this wave of development is the appropriately named, High Time, a remarkable V6ish solution to what had long been considered a desperate project line on the Alfred McAlpine boulder (which in case you'd forgotten is located right at the top of the Wavelength hillside, way beyond the Meadow area).

From a sitting/crouching start (height dependant) on pebbley edges just right of the undercut left edge of the boulder (Clue: stretch and get your right toe in the chalky pocket at the back right hand side of the roof), a few optimistic moves lead up through the steepness rightwards into the top of Kristian Clemmow’s forgotten classic Five Knuckle Shuffle – a superb V8 in its own right. A left hand exit from the same start remains an obvious challenge for those adept at pulling one armers on poor, sloping pinches.

There is also a couple of easier stand up lines to the left of the arete, and a further sit down start line to the right of the rather excellent V5, Alfred McAlpine.

(NB. the approach description for this block in the guide - page 88 - places it as being 50 metres beyond The Slopes of Hope - it is actually more like 150 metres up and right.)

Also of note is a superb V5 rampline on the conspicuous block directly below the right hand descent gully on the Dinas Mot Nose. Summer Teeth breaks up into the smooth rampline from a sitting start.

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