{"id":174,"date":"2008-12-16T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:23","slug":"welsh-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/welsh-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday saw another Snowdonia trip, in the company of Chris, Gareth and Luke. The plan was to find some snow given the excellent conditions over the last week. Things didn&#8217;t start well, with torrential rain on the way through, but they certainly picked up over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning found us having abandoned all ideas of snow, and setting off for a round of the Bochlwyd Horseshoe in the rain. The rain quickly turned to snow, and there also turned out to be a decent amount of snow higher up. Thus followed a snowy romp up the North Ridge of Tryfan, followed by Bristly Ridge, the Glyderau, and finally Y Garn. The descent down the East Ridge to Idwal was lovely and snowy, and a nice finish to the day.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_175\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-12-trinity1.jpg\" alt=\"Climbers high above Glaslyn on Left-Hand Trinity (II,*), Snowdon\" title=\"Climbers high above Glaslyn on Left-Hand Trinity (II,*), Snowdon\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climbers high above Glaslyn on Left-Hand Trinity (II,*), Snowdon<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nOn Sunday we decided to have a look at Trinity Face on Snowdon, and it turned into an excellent day. There was a reasonable amount of snow in the gullies, so the four of us went up Central Trinity (I\/II, ***). This was my first proper graded snowy route, and it was very enjoyable. We topped out in glorious sunshine exceedingly close to the summit of Snowdon &#8211; a weird but very cool experience! Less cool was the way in which Grivel had assembled Chris&#8217; new crampons with a &#8216;dissasemble when least expecting it&#8217; feature built in. On the way back down to the car we decided to keep it interesting and go over Crib y Ddysgyl and Crib Goch. Despite moving pretty slowly, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_176\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-12-trinity2.jpg\" alt=\"Team Mindsey head up Central Trinity (I\/II,***), Clogwyn y Garnedd\" title=\"Team Mindsey head up Central Trinity (I\/II,***), Clogwyn y Garnedd\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Mindsey head up Central Trinity (I\/II,***), Clogwyn y Garnedd<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nSo in spite of having to live, as Chris so eloquently put it, on &#8220;the bare minimum&#8221; (including, but not limited to, pizza, brownies, ginger bread, spaghetti bolognese, scotch eggs, quiche (qwee-ch), bombay mix and flavoured water), we had an excellent weekend. Kudos to Luke for driving, to Chris for patiently waiting while I revelled in the joys of leading the second half of Central Trinity, and to Gareth for coordinating a truly stunning F1-style pitstop on the way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday saw another Snowdonia trip, in the company of Chris,&#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":[54,58,70,290,307,309,355,376,380],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-central-trinity","tag-climbing","tag-crib-goch","tag-scrambling","tag-snow","tag-snowdonia","tag-tryfan","tag-winter","tag-y-garn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}