In reply to Reader_Rambles:
In answer to those people who 'disliked' my enthusiasm for the general excellence of most climbing in North Wales, I must simply repeat what I (and several others) have said. There is just so much that any meaningful list is impossible. One example. Someone said how good 'Lorraine' is, on Dinas Mot. Well, it is, but the Nose of the Mot is so good that just about everything on it is of equal quality about every standard. The main established routes from left to right:
The Cracks (about the weakest of them all, but merits a place in ‘Classic Rock’)
Lorraine
Trauma
Direct Route
Super Direct
Zeta
Diagonal
Crosstie
Stairway to Heaven
The Link
West Rib
Western Slabs
Who is to say which is the best of that amazing bunch? Probably Super Direct, but everything else, frankly is also so good. A pitch I thought was amazing was the top pitch of Crosstie, which few seem to do or talk about.
Just about everything on the Cromlech, and the whole of Tremadoc, esp. Bwlch y Moch, is similarly amazing. Tremadoc has the best rock in Snowdonia, and thus the most technically superb climbing. Pity it's not in the Pass. The only other dolerite is on the wings of the Mot, but they're rather vegetated. Only best, like Nexus, are equal to the best at Tremadoc.
At a lower standard, just about everything on the Idwal Slabs and East Face of Tryfan is very well worth doing.
It just seems pointless to single anything out.