Tag: scrambling
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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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The southernmost Munro of the Skye Cuillin ridge – May
Having said goodbye to P and B1 who were heading home, and with a better forecast for our last day on Skye, we set off driving to Glenbrittle in order to go up to Sgurr nan Eag, a Munro that we had missed on our traverse due to the alternative start. We had considered Am…
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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’…