Snowdonia - Southern Carneddau circuit: Pen yr Ole Wen to Llyn Cowlyd, 4/5/13
After a thoroughly enjoyable end-to-end traverse of the Glyderau range a couple of weeks ago, employing the excellent Sherpa bus service, I was keen to see what other linear walks I could cobble...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Cadair Idris with a crunch, 30/3/13
With snow still on the ground we decided a walk up Cadair Idris by our favourite route, the Minffordd path, was in order. I'm writing this some 5 weeks after the event (lazy git that I am) so the finer...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Y Glyderau traverse: Capel Curig to Nant Peris, 20/4/13
I'd idly considered an end-to-end traverse of the Glyders on numerous occasions over the years but things never progressed much beyond the initial idea. However, stumbling across this year's timetable...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Snowdon in the Snow, 6/4/13
With snow on the ground in the first week of April and sunshine forecast for the weekend, Deb and I didn't need too much encouragement to hoof it over to the Parc for a mess about on the big'un. Under...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Snowdon via Rhyd Ddu, 2/3/13
With forecasts of sunshine and potential cloud inversions on the cards, we hoofed it over to Snowdonia to have a wander up the big 'un. It was indeed sunny as we belted along the A5, with ne'er a cloud...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Carneddau Crazy, 20/1/13
I'd been checking the Snowdonia webcams frequently during the 'Big Freeze' of January 2013 - the BBC's rather sensationist designation for what was nowt more than a spell of cold weather. Call it...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Up the Glyders, 13/1/13.
You hope that when the Met Office mountain forecast bandies around such terms as 'blue sky', 'amazing clarity' and 'sunny spells' with gay abandon that there is a very, very slim chance that it might...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Arenig Fawr, Remembrance Sunday 11/11/12
On 11/11/12, Remembrance Sunday, a group of us set off for the outlying Snowdonian peak of Arenig Fawr. Our intention was to pay our respects at the summit memorial to the eight American aircrew who...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Snowdon via the Watkin Path, 7/11/12
With Deb having a few days off work, we'd decided that a mid-week walk was in order. While deciding where to go we were contacted by Max, one half of BrodyrChwerthin Wrecsam (not a traditional Welsh...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Y Garn from Nant Peris, 22/2/14
A short bimble up Y Garn from the Nant Peris side, taking in the impressive Afon Las falls. Relentless 55mph winds and -10C windchill up top, coupled with lowering grey clouds saw us abandon plans to...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Carneddau south circuit, 23/11/13
I seem to have got way behind on walk write ups over the last few months, so I thought I'd better cobble the pictures up if nothing else! This was a walk over the southern Carneddau in the first snow...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Moel Siabod, 28/9/13
Barely less than a month after walking to the top of Macedonia, we finally found time to head back over to Snowdonia for a gentle bimble over familiar ground. We hadn't been up Moel Siabod for a while...
View ArticleMacedonia - Golem Korab, 30/8/13
Our final walk of 2013's holiday in Macedonia saw us heading up to its highest peak, Golem Korab (either 2754m/9035ft or 2764m/9068ft depending on which source you believe - my GPS agreed with the...
View ArticleMacedonia - Pelister, 26/8/13
Most Macedonians have heard of Pelister - its image and name grace bottles of one of the nation's most well known mineral waters, Pelisterka. Pelister National Park is also Macedonia's oldest, formed...
View ArticleMacedonia - The Galičica Traverse, 23/8/13
As mentioned on previous posts, we've spent a fair bit of time over the last few years exploring the Galičica massif, in Macedonia's Galičica National Park. Our activities have tended to concentrate on...
View ArticleMacedonia - Elen Vrv, Galičica National Park, 22/8/13
We've just returned from our annual jaunt to Macedonia and, in between meals, managed to fit in some decent walks in the mountains. You may think I'm being flippant when I say 'in between meals' but...
View ArticleSnowdonia - Tryfan's Milestone Gully & the Bochlwyd Horseshoe, 10/8/13
The scramble up Tryfan's Milestone Gully has been on my to-do list for a while. Many a time have I ambled along the A5, enroute for the classic north ridge and gazed in curiosity up to its dark,...
View ArticleLake District - Scafell Pike via Skew Gill scramble, 3/8/13
My regular reader may remember that Deb has been out of action for a while with a bosted toe. This, in conjuction with a precipitant June, had meant that her desire to scale Scafell Pike as part of a...
View ArticleLake District - The Scafells from Borrowdale, 13/7/13
A trip up England's highest had been on the cards for sometime. Initial postponements had come about due to bad weather. However, it was Deb's recent altercation with a shopping trolley that has seen...
View ArticleSnowdonia - (How to get lost on the) Nantlle Ridge, 6/7/13
Of all Snowdonia's lofty ridges, the Nantlle Ridge must win the accolade of most mispronounced. It is also probably the finest, its quivering crest running across a chain of mini mountains for around 4...
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