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Date : 28/10/2018

Duration : 8+ hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Clear - sunny - good visibility

Wind : Strong Wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Carnedd Dafydd Carnedd Llewelyn Pen yr Helgi Du Pen yr Ole Wen

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First Ascent of the Carnedd Round - An interesting route that has everything, navigation, walking on a bearing, scrambling, practising my leadership skills and guidance on ascending steep ground. Awesome views of the Glyders and my favourite mountain - Tryfan, all the way around to the Irish Sea. I was unsure about my feelings with the Windturbine Farm that I could see from the top of Pen yr Helgi Du, is this right, a blot on the landscape or is this our way of trying to save the planet or all of these.
The short scramble to a grade 1 level on the ascent of Pen yr Ole Wen was started the day - some conversation was had about differen groups and whether I would encounter issues with this section. We continued on to the summit of Pen yr Ole Wen where were to find there was at least an inch and half of snow covering.
From here we continued around to Carnedd Dafydd, fortunately or unfortunately depending upon how you look at it, the clouds came in. I had already been using compass and map to navigate and work out times and distances, at this point I needed to use the map to walk on a bearing as the visibility became very poor all the way around to Carnedd Llywelyn where we met a lone walker with his map and compass which was great to see.
From the summit of Carnedd Llywelyn to Pen yr Helgi Du. Throughout this walk from Pen yr Ole Wen to Carnedd Llywelyn the ground was covered in snow. This was more like a winter walk at this height although crampons were not necessary. On the decent of Carnedd LLywlyn we had to ascend Penywaun-Wen overlooking Craig yr Ysfa, a possible winter scramble, and then down a reasonable grade 1 scramble.
From here we walked across a short Bwlch to begin ascending Pen yr Helgi Du, the ascent and altitude gain is quiet quick and some exposure could be felt. We were soon on the summit and then it was the walk down Y Braich to the A5 were we were parked at the foot of Tryfan, on the descent we were blessed by an awesome sunset over the Glyders...
Another fantastic day in and on the mountains
Great Times
Great Memories

Area : Carneddau

The Carneddau (lit. "the cairns"; Carneddau is a Welsh plural form, and is sometimes anglicised to Carnedds) are a group of mountains in Snowdonia, Wales. They include the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over 2,500 or 3,000 feet (910 m) high) in Wales and England, as well as six or seven of the highest peaks in the country—the Fourteen Peaks. The range also encloses a number of lakes such as Llyn Cowlyd and Llyn Eigiau, and the Aber Falls waterfalls. It is delimited by the Irish Sea to the north, the Conwy valley to the east, and by the A5 road from Betws-y-Coed to Bethesda to the south and west. The area covers nearly 200 square kilometres, about 10% of the area of Snowdonia.

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