Category: hills and mountains
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More scrambling, up east ridge of Y Garn, Snowdonia – April
Continuing with trying to get some practice of more challenging scrambling in the lead-up to our trip to Skye in May, we went up the east ridge of Y Garn, with rope and gear in our packs. Once we got to a point where the situation was getting more exposed, we took out our gear…
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Scrambling up the Mushroom Garden, Snowdonia – April
A sunny day. We started walking from Ogwen Cottage, and it took us a while to get to the start of the scramble, as the initial directions did not seem to correspond very well to what we were seeing in front of us. Eventually, we managed to match the two, and we started going up…
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Sitting on the Cannon, Snowdonia – April
A scramble up the north ridge of Tryfan seemed like a nice familiar way to start. We tried to push ourselves in the choice of line we took. I finally persuaded myself to clamber up the Cannon, the well-known rock that juts out half way up the north ridge of Tryfan. It wasn’t actually too…