Jamie Rooke - 171528

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Details

Date : 04/05/2015

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Overcast

Wind : Gentle Breeze

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Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Carnedd Dafydd

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Description

Walked from Bethesda up Cwm Pen Llafar with Wyn williams. Weather was very mild and pleasant. We spent time talking about welsh language and noted some different glacial activity. We thought we seen a really good lateral moraine and some roche moutainee.
We noted an extremely huge bird circling around the llech du craig. wasn't sure what it was. I wanted to believe it was an eagle! We also talked about new climbing routes that Wyn has been developing around the Carneddau and touched on the theory of Belaying- Noted Alpine Fir Clubmoss and learnt that it only grows above 3-400 meters
We ascended the Crib Lem Spur, where Wyn coached me on my scrambling technique- most notably hand placement and moving over exposed, grassy slopes. had a turn at route finding during the scramble and led Wyn.
In terms of difficulty- easy day, but a very rewarding day of knowledge building and personal development.

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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