Aaron Mitchell - 260032

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Date : 29/03/2015

Duration : 8+ hours

Style : Solo

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Heavy Rain - Poor Visibility

Wind : Strong Wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Creigiau Gleision Creigiau Gleision North Top

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The wind today was really strong so I changed my plans to stay lower as going up high would not have been advisable.
I started in Betws-y-Coed and headed NW through the forest up to Llyn Crafnant. From here I pushed up North through the woods and turned West to make my way up the high ground all the way along to the summit of Creigiau Gleision. Up here was really windy so I turned round and headed back down to the lower ground. I then headed SE to Afon Conway river and then pushed South through the forest back to Betws-y-coed.
This was a really fun route considering my plans completely changed because of the weather. I had lots of navigation practice in the woodlands and still managed to summit a new peak.

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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