We again have been very lucky with the weather, and where we were climbing today, as Russ put it sounded like something out of a Monty Python sketch.......
As ever with our climbs this week the views were just incredible and the landscape constantly changed with the moving clouds and sunlight, which made for some brilliant photo opportunites (you always get brilliant photo opportunities in Snowdonia)
A saying has stuck with me and will do for the rest of my life......."If you don't climb the Mountain, you won't get to see the view." And that is an absolute definite around Snowdonia.
Our walk started off with a mile or so of road walking, and then we hit the fields that took us up to the summit of Cnicht.........to say they were slightly damp would be an understatement! Swampy, boggy, marshy, take your pick it was anyone of the aforementioned descriptions of wetland. Anyhow despite this we carried on up and through some majestic scenery with lakes popping out of nowhere each time you turned a different corner.........stunning!
Our final stage to the summit was a bit hairy, but not quite has bad as the ridge was crossed a couple of days ago......the drop to the immediate left of us was only 1700' but it was only on one side.
Once passed the ridge our route to the top was fairly easy with a small bit of scrambling left to do. Once at the top the views were that nice we decided to sit down on the cliff edge for a bite to eat as the views overlooked Cardigan Bay (at this point we were 2300' up)
Once we finished lunch we headed back down the same route, and the further we got the nicer the weather was getting and we had great weather on the way up!
Our decent was a little quicker despite the boggy and very slippy rocks, so a good 6 hour day was had by all.
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Many thanks
Andrew
Loving the pics and the updates :)
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