Just a quick one with around an hour available. I parked at Ogwen Cottage and went for the direct approach up what I've always known as Banana Ridge. I have descended this dozens of times but rarely been up this way, apart from to approach the winter gully climbs in Cwm Clyd. It is actually much better in ascent: steep but direct on an engineered path up fairly kind steps. At the lip of Cwm Clyd (a classic hanging valley, maybe the best example in Eryri) it levels off briefly before the final narrower ridge. Some gusts and light rain: the mist right down to 500m or lower. I got to the summit proper in 39 minutes from Ogwen cottage, then down to Llyn y Cwn in nine minutes. A brief clearance and then the mist dropped again for the very familiar descent past Twll Ddu to easier running round Idwal and back to Ogwen.
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