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Climbs 8
Rocktype Sandstone (soft)
Altitude 325m a.s.l
Faces S

Crag features

A superb sandstone boulder has been developed west of Wrecsam. The Dids Boulder sits in the pine woods of Nant-y-Ffrith, just outside the village of Bwlchgwyn. It had been noticed by a few folk over the years but Ricky Walker and Chris Thomas gave it a clean in December 2016. Chris returned in May 2018 and climbed Green Sausages (5C), the obvious stand up line just left of the right arête.

In March 2021 Ben Lancelotte pointed the boulder out to Matthew ‘Mill’ Harland. Matty Lamb got involved too and the lads started working their way through the remaining obvious lines. 

Detailed information can be found on the "North Wales Bouldering" page. Yvain the Bastard (15/04/2022).

Approach notes

  park by the ‘Aircrew Memorial’ at the top of the village of Bwlchgwyn. Head down Glascoed Road for about 200m until you reach a foot path on the left that leads on down through the woods, crossing forest roads to a bridge. Go over the bridge and head up the right track through a 5-bar gate (which may be missing due to forestry work)/stile. Now follow the left-hand forest road zig zagging under the same electric lines until you come to the block in the well-established wood.

Alternatively, from the 5 bar gate/stile: in front of you is a circle of Yew trees and along the front of this runs a footpath which leads steeply up into the forest and is also used as a bike track. This is strong going with pads, but the run leads straight up to the forest road where the block can be seen.

The boulder stands alone next to a wide forest track adjacent to a well-used local mountain bike track high in the forest but well before the summit of the hill. NB. Locally it is known as the ‘Elephant Boulder’ as it looks like head of an elephant pushing against a large stone.

Check out the North Wales Bouldering 'News archive' on their home page for Topo information. (Yvain the Bastard, 15th April 2022)
Mill Shmeade - 01/May/23
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