Lost in Bethesda!!!!
Hewitts: Carnedd Dafydd, Carnedd Llewelyn, Yr Elen
Date walked: 31/08/2019
Time taken: 6.47 hours
Distance: 8.5km
Ascent: 1039m
I had arranged to meet up with five friends at the far end of Bethesda village, but that is easier said than done. I should have remembered how difficult to navigate this village is



All set we managed to get on the path no problem & having had a night of rain we wondered what the stream crossing would be like? We all had pollybags and string just in case. here are a few of the pics crossing the stream which was not problem really




Once across we had a fairly easy walk across the moor to gain the ridge to ascend Yr Elen.


We decided to get to the beginning of the rocks & get out of the wind & enjoy the view before getting into the cloud.

Once in the cloud and on the scree it was a steep climb to the summit, it would have been very slippery if we had reversed the route, as we had considered.

Navigation became a bit tricky in the heavy cloud & we had to resort to the GPS to find the summit of Llewelyn



Once we passed Llewelyn it began to clear we could have a look back where we had come from.

and admire the views



The ridge towards Dafyd was very clear & we all enjoyed being able to see something







The last summit of the day, well done team



Now for the descent to Bethesda down the boulder filed.

The sting in the tail for me was when we got back to the village




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PathfinderPaul
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