In reply to Enoch Root: I could have been a bit more descritive. I'll give you that it's a short route but other than that I think it's got enough of the elements to make it inspriational.
1) It's in a great situation, at the top of a famous traditional crag in Llanberis Pass with plenty of exposure and a good view across to the Cromlech. It might not inspire you, but for me it's location is far more inspiring than Dumby or the Eastern Edges.
2) It's on immaculate rock, some of the best I've seen.
3) It's not a great natural line granted, but on closer inspection it's actually a very compelling route as the spaced holds on the face are rather obvious and inviting. It's one of these pieces of rock that the more you look at it the more climbable it looks and the more you feel it ought to be climbed.
4) The climbing is sustained, technical and sequential.
In reply to Mick: The gear is a pecker placed in a crack on top of the remains of an old piton, followed by the blindly placed wire (WC Rock 2? by Leo, and WC superlight 4 by James). They pecker is reasonable as I held James on it as he backed off.
If you come off placing the wire (and the pecker holds) you'll probably just miss hitting the belay ledge and land in a prickly bush. If you come of higher up and the wire placed blind doesn't hold you'll hit the ledge very hard, serious broken bones certainly.
I don't have many reference points to compare it to, but it's no doubt less serious than some E9s (e.g. Indian Face). However it's commiting 7a climbing. It was very obvious that James needed to hit every hold and every move right first time to hang in there.
