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I must admit this hurts a bit, writing a walk report a week and a half of "back to work" after a beautifal short week in Wales. Normally it makes me enjoy the afterglow, this time it just makes me ache and long back.
As we spent the day before Ophelia on Crib Lem and the day itself at South Stack, we decided to climb Tryfan and maybe some more summits the day after. The mrs really enjoyed the scrambling on Crib Lem, so I knew Tryfan was going to be good fun. I wasn't too sure though about Bristly Ridge, where I planned to go up Sinister or Main Gully. (It's not that I was doubting between the two, it's just that I don't know which one I've climbed in the past).
It seemed we might be the first to make an ascent that morning, as the parking place near Gwern Gof Uchaf was deserted.
The ascent went well. Some stones where slippery, the wind was still hard but not too cold and the mountain was quiet. We heard some voices here and there but we didn't see anyone till a bit higher up.
The scrambling was all the fun I had promised the mrs
The sun by now coloured the views on the Carneddau, we were on the wrong side of Tryfan
All the more reason to steadily keep on scrambling.
Size matters. Great rockarchitechture.
Great steep views through a small gully
However much fun Tryfan is, and despite it's moderate ascent, there's still a lot of huffing and puffing. Every now and then there's need for a short pause.
Adam and Eve offer some protection from the wind, so the summit is the perfect place for a slightly longer pause and a zip and a bite.
What a magnificent little mountain it is
I hope I'm not insulting anyone, but I can't hear the difference between Welsh and various Scandinavian languages. Either way, a very gentle man who spoke either one of the above to his children offered us a lovely romantic look at us being happy near the summit photo.
The mrs and I agreed on descending the south side of Tryfan and deciding there wether we would go for another summit. View from the south:
And we did decide on going for Glyder Fach, via Brisly Ridge. Again, I don't know wether we took Sinister or Main Gully, but fun we had. This is the mrs making her way towards the gully
And this is her, photo taken from inside the gully:
Scrambling fun:
At a certain moment we diverted towards the right side of the ridge. This photo is taken from there, looking backwards at Tryfan
The scrambling there is less technical, but no less fun:
While having another bite on the summit of Glyder Fach, a coastguard helicopter hovered in the valley below. Apparantly a rescue of two climbers, that according to the mountain rescue website lasted around 75 minutes.
The mrs didn't seem to keen on visiting Glyder Fawr and Y Garn as well, so we descended down the, might I say terribly eroded, scree path east of Bristly Ridge. Nice views on Tryfan though:
