Climbing wall fun

We went to a [relatively] new climbing gym in Caernarfon and ended up spending about 4 hours there.  All 4 of us ended up climbing, and it was sooooo fun but also hard work.

The kids did really well and they both made a lot of progress individually. Rhiannon made about 10 attempts of this one - she is wearing pink about halfway up the blue wall - and with each attempt she got a little higher until she finally made it all the way to the top!

A couple of the routes had auto-belay devices which enable the climber to climb the normal way but without a 2nd person down below holding onto the rope. So when you get to the top and want to come down, you just lean back and fall off the wall and the auto-belay device catches you! The only thing is that the mechanism takes a fraction of a second to activate, and meanwhile one's heart is up in one's throat! We all had a go on these devices and it was really fun but scary.