Snowdon, Garnedd Ugain, Crib Goch
As my legs were aching quite badly from the previous day’s fell race on Y Garn, I decided I needed to toughen up a bit. And so on this bank holiday monday I thought I’d go for a little walk.
I headed again to Snowdonia, and from Llanberris walked up the Llanberris path to summit Snowdon, followed by Garnedd Ugain and Crib Goch. On Crib Goch I met a couple of chaps (Dave & Tony) who’d been scrambling/climbing and were on their way back down. I hooked up with them and they kindly led me over Crib Goch and down it’s less well known north ridge. We descended to the road via Dinas Mott, during which I slipped on some large loose scree and narrowly missed breaking some bones! Got quite a deep cut on one finger, another very squashed finger and lots of scrapes and grazes. Luckily it wasn’t too far to the road at this point, and the chaps kindly gave me a lift back to Llanberris.
And now I’m properly tired. Stopped for a steak on the way back and it didn’t touch the sides.
I’m afraid I must confess that my visit to these mountains was not coincidental. Recently I have discovered the “Welsh 3000“. This is a challenge of summiting all the highest Welsh mountains (over 3000ft) in a day, some 26 miles and 3600m of climbing. Its possible to walk these in a day, but its also possible to run them……… Now you can probably see what I’m getting at.
