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.