There gullies were not in good condition, so we did the classic north ridge traverse of Tryfan. On the picture above, we climbed the mountain from left to right.
Rob was reasonably cheerful at the start:
We had 600m to ascend, and soon we felt we were having a proper winter day
Not much of a view from the summit:
Still, there was some fun to be had on the way down:
On sunday, we helped Moira and Jeff look for a glove he'd lost the previous weekend in a gully near Ygarn.
There wasn't much snow left, so most of the search party went back to the Ogwen cottage for tea and cake. Liz, Michael and I walked to the summit ridge then completed the traverse over Ygarn.
Soon after we'd reached the summit ridge, we came across 2 walkers who'd missed their descend path from Ygarn. They were looking for the same path Louise and I used in the autumn, and it's not easy to find. They had to walk back 2km. Here they are at the start of their descend:
Summit picture. Snowdown, behind us, is lost in the cloud:
Looking back at Ygarn and Michael taking a picture:
The final descend was down "Devil's Kitchen". This proved untertaining:
Finally, here's a panoramic view from the top of Ygarn:
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