Jamie Rooke - 171528

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Date : 01/06/2015

Duration : 2-3 hours

Grade : 2

Style : Group Member

Type : Summer Scrambling

Weather : Light rain - good visibility

Wind : No wind

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Nights Camping : 0

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Description

A short but sweet introduction to Grade 2 scrambling with Anthony Eccles on the Pinnacles of Pen yr Ole Wen. Very good day for confidence building and personal development.
We spent so me time looking at the flora of the area- Notably tasted some Wood Sorrel leaves! (indicator of a previous wooded area when found in the mountain environment)
We also noted some nice Breccia on the lower slopes of the mountain and looked at possibilities of increasing the length of the scramble a little.

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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