Area: Snowdon, Eryri
Morgan's first time across Crib Goch. He is five years older than when I first did it, which is my fault for delaying it so long. This was a great day, although the weather was a little cloudier than the perfect blue skies that have prevailed since I got back from Scotland. I dropped M off at Pen y Pass and drove across the Conwy border to the free lay-by, then ran back up to PyP in 11 minutes. An energetic but satisfying start, and we then set a decent pace on the Pyg track up to Bwlch y Moch, the early clag starting to lift revealing Crib Goch ahead, always an impressive sight. At the bwlch, we headed off and M really enjoyed the East Ridge, up which we took a good line, just picking our way up with the occasional mild tutorial. A little sunshine was playing around as we reached the top of Crib Goch in around an hour from PyP. We then enjoyed a delightful crossing of the ridge, me keeping a close eye on M, but he had no issues and we kept just to the left of the crest, traversed the first two pinnacles and then took a short break below the last one in a pool of warm sunshine. No issues for this, after which the meat of the route is done. We had a snack at Bwlch Goch then really enjoyed Crib y Ddisgyl, sticking to the crest as the clag cleared from Yr Wyddfa. At Garnedd Ugain, we decided to continue to the top of Snowdon (which M had only done twice before) and even popped into Hafod Eryri, which I've never done before. I did offer him the chance to continue around the Horseshoe, but we opted to descend the Miners instead. This was very pleasant, sunny in places and not too crowded. I ran down the side path to Pen y Gwryd in order to retrieve the car, which actually took longer than the run up in the morning.
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