This weekend saw me head to Snowdonia for a weekend of camping and scrambling. Hugh, one of the Scotland regulars was celebrating his Birthday and I was kindly invited to join the usual suspect, Paul, plus Simon and his "bro" and Dave plus family. The weekend promised a mixed bag of weather, with Friday being the better day. With this in mind we elected to tackle the Grade 1 *** scramble up Bristly Ridge. I had done this before, in terrible conditions and was apprehensive about the "re-match". After some creative navigating by Hugh, which nearly saw us climb the west side of Tryfan, we reached the start of Sinister Gully. This is a steep and (for a grade 1) challenging job of work. I have borrowed a picture from the Internet to give you an idea of what is all about (we did not have the rope though). After a challenging but fun scramble up the gully, we were over the worst and apart from the Pinnacle Gap, (Bit of a downclimb which can be avoided via an exposed traverse to the left) we hit the top of Glyder Fach. Posing for the obligatory picture on the Cantilever Stone, we scoffed butties and traversed the ridge, taking in Glyder Fawr, before descending back into Ogwen via the Devils Kitchen. A pint of something cold at the Bryn Tyrch and a few more back at the campsite saw us feeling pretty pleased with the days work.
We awoke Saturday to low cloud and drizzle, which put paid to plans of a scramble we had planned on Snowdon. With the weather set in for the day, we decided to visit The Beacon, a local climbing wall, where we had a couple of hours on the bouldering walls and had a good time traversing routes and basically keeping dry.
After checking the forecast for the rest of the weekend, we reluctantly decided to call it a day (or a weekend) and broke camp on Saturday evening, pausing only to grab a steak at the Bryn Tyrch and returning home.
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