DATE 12/11/15
ACTIVITY
Hill Walking and Scrambling
REGION
North Wales
AREA
Ogwen Valley
MOUNTAIN SUMMITED
Tryfan (917m)
SCRAMBLES
(North Wales Scrambles, Garry Smith)
North Ridge, Tryfan (Grade 1)
DESCRIPTION OF ROUTE:
Mountain Month Day 9, We arrived at Tryfan nice and early trying to make the most of the break in the weather we met in the car park at 9am and had left shortly after, and started to make our way up the north ridge. Today we where looking at serious steep ground and which would be a likely route to be leading people up. As we made our way up the sun was breaking through the clouds and the warmth of the sun on our faces was very welcoming, we took it in turns to lead a section of the route and role play with the others to help and protect people through the steep terrain, we then chatted about each section on what we though was good and what we would do differently, we found this very useful and made us really focus on where we positioned ourselves and start thinking about group management on this type of ground. We then got the confidence rope out of the bag and started to practice body belaying and how we could use the rope to protect steps and ledges and discussed how the rope made us feel. By the time where closing on to the summit the weather had changed dramatically and the wind was very strong in a few places could feel it lift us off our feet, we had noticed too men behind us who where starting to struggle in the conditions, we reached the summit around 12:30pm and quickly turned around to take shelter just below the summit, we chatted to the guys who where behind us and we decided that we would escape the weather and descend down the west gully, we waited for the guys to return from the summit and then made our decent. This was useful having the two men as we could put in to practice what we had been practicing this morning, it had started to rain and made the rocks very slippery, we made good time on the decent as didn’t take us long to join the path which returned to the car park, the two guys said they would be happy if we continued on and gave them our numbers so they could let us know when they reached back to the car. The morning was very useful and we returned to siabod café to discuss what we had learnt. In the afternoon we visited Plas-y-Brenin and had a look around the centre and went to the climbing wall.
Area :
Glyderau
The Glyderau (a Welsh plural form, also known in English as the Glyders) are a mountain group in Snowdonia, North Wales. The name derives from the highest peaks in the range, Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach. According to Sir Ifor Williams, the word "Glyder" derives from the Welsh word "Cludair", meaning a heap of stones.
