{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-26T22:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:58","slug":"the-chasm-face-tryfan-north-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/the-chasm-face-tryfan-north-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasm Face \/ Tryfan North Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was rather action-packed, with a trip to Snowdonia for some walking \/ scrambling, and meeting up with RAMSOC for the Annual Dinner Meet. On Saturday James and I decided to tackle our first Grade 3 scramble. The Chasm Face on Glyder Fach is described as &#8220;best enjoyed in the afternoon sun in summer&#8221;, so naturally we got an early-morning start in February, with pouring rain and apparently 70mph gusts (although we were sheltered from the worst of those). James did a cracking job of leading the route, but I have no photographs to show because quite frankly it was minging up there and we wanted to get off as soon as possible!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/20080225b.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down the North Ridge of Tryfan. Photo by Rob Woodman.\" title=\"Looking down the North Ridge of Tryfan. Photo by Rob Woodman.\" \/><br \/>\nSunday&#8217;s weather was a bit better, and we opted to join RAMSOC for a pootle up the North Ridge of Tryfan. Tiredness was rife following the formal dinner the evening before (much fun was had by all), but as usual the North Ridge proved a brilliant day out. Highlights included the newly-formed &#8220;waterfall pitch&#8221; near the start, the creation of the word &#8220;smud&#8221; to describe smelly mud, and a touch of snow on the climb up to the summit. Much hilarity ensued when trying to fit the group through &#8220;the silly hole&#8221;, including an innovative ascent by James that included removing his rucksack halfway up &#8211; nice! (See photo above of me watching him in disbelief). A chilled-out drive from Chester got me back in time to head\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=24\" title=\"Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Sonic Boom Six\">straight out again<\/a>\u00a0to Rock City, fuelled by Wine Gums and a Fudge &#8211; rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was rather action-packed, with a trip to Snowdonia&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,117,264,290,309,341,355,372],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-climbing","tag-glyder-fach","tag-ramsoc","tag-scrambling","tag-snowdonia","tag-the-chasm-face","tag-tryfan","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}