{"id":22,"date":"2008-03-23T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:57","slug":"cwm-glas-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/cwm-glas-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cwm Glas Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday&#8217;s awful weather encouraged us into tackling an easy Grade 1 scramble from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scrambles-Snowdonia-Cicerone-Guide-Ashton\/dp\/1852840889\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206287237&amp;sr=8-1\" title=\"Scrambles in Snowdonia by Steve Ashton (at Amazon)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrambles in Snowdonia<\/a>. James and I foolishly decided to try and do every scramble in the book, and so rain seems to be a good incentive to plod up easier routes. We hit the cloud just at the only marginally exciting part of the ridge (see photo), and &#8220;topped out&#8221; approximately 30 seconds later on a very wet and windy shoulder of Crib y Ddysgl. To my mind, the ridge didn&#8217;t entail much scrambling, finished quite a way below the summit, and was just a bit boring. That said, I was talking with someone later in the day who rates it as one of his favourite routes, so maybe we just caught it on a bad day.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/20080322.jpg\" alt=\"James on one of the few scrambly bits of Cwm Glas Ridge.\" \/>What followed was a rapid retreat down the Miner&#8217;s Path from Bwlch Glas, negotiating a variety of people in trainers, jeans and a lack of waterproofs right from the zig-zags down to Pen y Pass car park. A variety of other factors conspired to mean we met up with Ramsoc for a very quick drink in Bangor hostel and then just legged it back to Chester! Not the most productive weekend we&#8217;ve ever had, but being out on the hill (even in gales and snow) beats sitting at home in front of the telly any day. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday&#8217;s awful weather encouraged us into tackling an easy&#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":[58,67,74,263,264,275,290,308,376],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-climbing","tag-crb-y-ddysgl","tag-cwm-glas","tag-rain","tag-ramsoc","tag-ridge","tag-scrambling","tag-snowdon","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}