Snowdonia………… Here we come !!!!

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snowdon national park

Mount Snowdon - in the clouds

Well here we go again on another adventure……….. a couple of weeks ago myself and Huge went to North Wales rock climbing as the weather forecast was great.

We left on Friday late afternoon and arrived at Betws-y-Coed early evening, we decided to have a bite to eat and a couple of beers before we pichted the tent. When the tent was up we had a glass of wine and watched the stars as it was one of the clearest nights i had ever seen, all of the constellations were out and so was the milky way………….

In the morning we went and found a great cafe for breakfast, then went to the Cotswold shop to buy some gear that we were missing and then headed off to Llanberis Pass. We arrived there and it was very busy, probably as the weather was great. We walked to Carreg Wastad and decided to climb the “Wrinkle” a classic 3* route 253ft 3 pitch v.diff. this was a great climb. We got our gear together and set off around the corner to climb “Crackstone Rib” a Welsh great classic, 3* route 175ft 3 pitch severe. Unfortunately when we got there 2 climbers were on the route and there were 4 climbers waiting to climb it, we waited for an hour or so and checking the guide book for something else to climb, but the weather took a turn for the worse and we decided to leave. On the way back to the campsite we popped into Plas-y-Brennin for some refreshments but the bar was closed. So back to Betws-y-Coed for some food and beers.

3*Welsh classic

Crackstone Rib

Me on boulder Huge, checking book

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The next morning we decided to head home, but on the way we stopped off at Tremadog and climbed the “Christmas Curry” another classic route, 250ft, 4 pitch, HS. A fantastic climb and one of my all time favoutites.

on the curry