Tag: climbing
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Snowdon horseshoe via Crib Gogh north ridge – July
A dry day. We tried to follow a guidebook route which included a scramble up the north ridge of Crib Goch, leading onto the thin ridge leading up to Snowdon. I noticed a lot of mountain flowers on the way up to Crib Goch, and later on the steep path down from the summit of…
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Classic Cuillin climbing on the Cioch – Skye, May
Two days after finishing the traverse, we met up with M and J to go and retrieve our bivvy gear, which we had stashed away near the cave two mornings earlier, and to climb the Cioch on the way back. The weather was a bit wetter and cooler, and when we reached the ‘Slab Corner’…
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^^-áµ¥-^-^ Second day of the Cuillin traverse – Skye, Scotland, May ^áµ¥–^-^
(Blog entry below the photographs) All too soon (or not soon enough?), M’s alarm quietly sounded at 3.00 am, and we started getting up. Eating and drinking what we could, we stashed our sleeping gear near the cave, and set off up to Sgurr Alasdair, the highest point in the Cuillin. Getting onto the ridge…