Fantasia, pitch 1, Right Hand Red Wall, Gogarth
It’s August, the bird bans are lifted so its time to gird your loins and venture onto the more adventurous parts of Gogarth. Nick persuaded me down to the Red Walls at Gogarth. Many folk who have not been there wrongly believe the whole of Gogarth is loose. In fact very little of it is loose though some crags are definately “soft” and Red Walls is definately one of those. The rock has a brittle red patina and where it has been weathered the underlying rock is little more than sand. This results in some very unusual rock formations which requires careful handling and some ingenuity with some of the runner placements – take a big rack and lots of slings!
We had time to climb both Fantasia and Wendigo before the strong wind started to drive us mad and we left in search of shelter.
Pitch 1 of Fantasia, Red Wall, Gogarth
