© Asako Yokoya
We went to Snowdonia in April expecting rain. On the first day out, we got to see the hills covered in what remained of the snow – not too much to make it impossible to get through, but enough to change the way everything looked. We had only one pair of crampons between us, and no ice axe; there was a section that felt a bit icy and exposed for comfort.
The image above is a view from the plateau of Glyder Fawr, reached after scrambling up the Gribin ridge.
After going over to Glyder Fach, we went back over Glyder Fawr to descend by the Devil’s Kitchen route.
A Glyders scramble/walk
View Snow in April in a larger map
This was how Tryfan looked from the eastern side – only a sprinkling of fresh snow, the rest already having been washed away by the rain.
The Devil’s Kitchen gully can be seen quite clearly as the big gap in the middle of the image. Most people don’t actually use the gully itself as a route – the so-called Devil’s Kitchen route is actually a steep scree slope to the left of the gully.
Tryfan seen from the western side, with Llyn (lake) Bochlwyd below.
Adam and Eve are the twin standing rocks at the top of Tryfan, which look a bit like the silhouette of two people. People like to jump from one to the other (there’s a sheer drop below to one side).
