Category: flowers and plants
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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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Walking down a damp Glen Sligachan – Isle of Skye, May
The day after our Cioch climb (which had been the last of our guided days), the forecast was not great, so we decided to do something low-level but which might still give us some good views if the weather improved, and which would give us the opportunity to try a path we had not used…
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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’…