Monday 29 July 2019

Snowdonia Odyssey - Day three

A day in the glyders

Well..

Considering the low cloud, the rain and the stiff breeze, the planned scramble up Tryfan's slippery rocks into the view-obscuring white, suddenly didn't seem a good idea.

Saturday 27 July 2019

Wednesday 24 July 2019

Snowdonia Odyssey - Day one

Bus anyone?


The plan was to take the bus a little way to Swallow Falls and maybe an early lunch.

Well.

Tuesday 23 July 2019

Snowdonia Odyssey -Travel day

We're in Wales now...

Travel day saw us speeding towards Betws y Coed, the nearest main line station. Everything progressed as expected until the last stage when we had to use a Rail Replacement bus. Despite the fact that the tracks had been washed away by storms some nine months previous, Virgin had still reserved seats for us on coach 'C'. Try as we might we just couldn't find them.

Snowdonian Odyssey - preamble


Betsy Who?

Snowdonia a different way.

On a typical trip we'd pick a route and plan a multi-day backpack from one end to the other, possibly with the odd short day.



This time I thought differently. We'd pick a couple of fixed bases from which to attack the surrounding peaks.