Last year Si Panton got interested in a beautifully featured boulder with a leaning arête 50m above the contour wall at the top of Y Ddôl/The Meadow on the Tonfedd/Wavelength hillside (See page 177 in the NWB 3.1 Mountain Crags guide).

Initially dumbfounded by the potential sequences, Si managed to suss out a way to climb it on its right side. Moment Hud (7A+) starts sitting, with one of your hands on the obvious horizontal slot. Make slightly baffling moves to gain the obvious compression position then tack up the arête before grabbing the lip and exiting up rightwards.

”It’s such a neat, intense problem. I was really buzzing to get it done.”, said Si.

Recently Luke Fletcher went up for a look and repeated Moment Hud, confirming the grade and quality. [Editor’s note: Luke does this in far less moves than me!]

Luke then got stuck into climbing the left side of the same arête, again from a sitting start. Luke’s Problem (7A+) proved to be equally as good, and features a really cool ‘stuck on’ undercut lozenge hold.

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