Wales 25/07/2020

Another year, 12 months later another trip to Wales.

This time we started our trip down in the Brecon Beacons with a wild camp at Llyn Y Fan fawr.

This involved a rather hot and sweaty walk uptown Llyn Y Fan fach as most people where descending the track for the day, once again we where only ascending. Once we arrived at Llyn Y Fan fach we walked up and around the ridge which provided us with drastic views all around us, after defending down to Llyn Y Fan fawr an hour later it was time to pitch the tent get some dinner and await the sunset and see if we could catch a glimpse of comet Neowise.

After watching the sunset with some lovely pastel tones we weren't paying enough attention to the sky to see the comet.

For once we got a rather good nights sleep in the tent and unfortunately didn't wake up for sunrise.

A few days later it was off to Snowdonia, this time to go up Tryfan, after arriving in Llanberis surrounded by low cloud we headed to the lonely tree to get a few photos, then to the accommodation for an early night.

Tryfan, WOW what a scramble, defiantly the most sustained scramble I've done yet, after reaching the summit and then dropping down then ascending Bristly ridge up on to Glyder Fach and Glyder Fawr we where treated to about 10 meters of visibility, which meant we took an alternative descent to the one planned.

Lud's Church 29/01/2020

Attending Huddersfield university means being right on the edge of the Peak District. It's given me a new national park on my doorstep to explore. Although I didn't manage to get out into the Peaks as much as I wanted too during my first year of uni, one place I did manage to get to was Lud's Church.

We parked at the Roaches and walked down into the wood below. We soon came across a deep chasm which at first looked rather narrow, however as you walk down the steps the full expanse is revealed. There is a wide pathway to walk along, and lots of narrow gully's to explore.

We were lucky to have the place to ourselves whilst we were there, definitely a spot I'm going to go back to again.

Crib Goch 03/08/2019

For my birthday weekend we went away to Snowdonia. It was decided we had to go up Snowdon and having done Striding Edge on Helvellyn previously, we decided we would go up via Crib Goch.

We set off at 4:30am to hopefully catch the sunrise, and get onto the ridge before the crowds. After going slightly off track, we made our way onto the ridge. I was pleasantly surprised that there were only a few people in front of us, and two parties of two behind us. As we made it to the ridge we could see the remains of a cloud inversion in the valley below.

Crib Goch is the main ridge up to the Snowdon summit, in comprises of a short but steep scramble up onto a knife edge ridge. The ridge has three pinnacles and is rather exposed in places, next you scramble your way up Crib-Y-Ddysgl and then join one of the main paths that lead to Snowdon summit.

Once we had made our way up to the summit and waited a short while for the cafe to open for a brew, we decided to continue the rest of the way around the Snowdon horseshoe instead of making our way down the Miners or PYG track.

The rest of the horseshoe takes you onto Y Liwedd and down Lilwedd Bach back to Llyn Lldaw with the scramble up Y Liwedd being more time consuming due to the zig zagging nature of the path.

When we finally made our way back to the car it had just started raining, so it was back to the campsite at Llyn Gwynant and pizzas from their onsite pizza oven.