Wye valley-Tintern quarry and the red dust wall

It's been a frustrating few weeks as I have not been able to get out climbing. Thankfully August bank holiday gave us great weather so we decided to return to Tintern quarry with a view to getting on the premier wall of the quarry- the red dust wall. After a couple of warm up climbs Chris, Dave and Edwina the collie joined us just in time to climb the two pitch climb-dust devil 6a+. I have been looking forward to doing this climb since seeing it on my first trip to Tintern. It made a nice change to be excited to be doing a climb because it looked fun rather than because it was pushing the grade- and was a good reality check as to why I climb! It was also Colls first multipitch!

Coll on the first pitch of dust devil

Me leading the second pitch of dust devil, 6b

Me abseiling back down whilst Dave climbs the second pitch

Greeted by an excited Pepper

After the adventure of colls fist multipitch we headed round to the first routes of the red dust wall and did a few climbs. I was pleased to try a line which started up an arête which ended up requiring a bit of finger crack climbing, very spicy and a nice 6c+ onsite.

We finished the day by heading over to the Sunny side wall to do a couple more routes, which were on good rock again (considering its a quarry). That was about all we had time for as the Bank  holiday traffic home awaited us...

Chris in the distance on Phil in the gaps, 6a

Entry wall

• Point of principle 5
• Bigfoot 5+

Red dust wall

• Dust devil 5,6b
• Ammonite 6b
• Dinosaurs don't dyno 6a+
• Fragrance Abuse 6c+

Sunnyside wall

• Phil in the gaps 6a
• Rock juggler 6a+