Wales: Hockstack's Back!

Those Welshy's are making the rest of Brit's look positively amateurish on the hard first ascent front. This time (Keswick originating) strongman Adam Hocking turned up the heat at the newly in vogue Craig yr Wrysgan area.

Adam Hocking powered his way through a fierce traverse line on the Chris’ Kashmir Curry block, a mere 100m away from Chris Davies’ recent Font 8a+/V12 addition, New Noise, by the side of the dam road below Craig yr Wrysgan (which lies above Tan y Grisiau).

Hippocampus Font 8a/+/V11/12 starts sitting to the left of Chris’ Kashmir Curry on opposition side pulls by the obvious block. It kicks in straight away with two hard moves: a cross to a dirty crimp, and then a dynamic lung to a horizontal slot. Another few moves rightwards (a Font 7a+ sequence in its own right) leads into Chris’ Kashmir Curry. The problem then continues rightwards to finish on jugs at the right arête.

Below: Adam Hocking (or is it the Joker?) blasts his way through Hippocampus Font8a/+ © NorthwalesBouldering.com


Source: NorthWalesBouldering.com and Simon Panton