{"id":4718,"date":"2016-01-22T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:39:46","slug":"mountains-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/mountains-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountains to Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work travel and plenty of annual leave meant I escaped back to the hills on Tuesday afternoon. I spent a wonderful three hours on the Carneddau, at one point accompanied by the police helicopter, coastguard helicopter and an RAF Hawk, but mostly in complete silence and with the range to myself. I sometimes question whether it&#8217;s worth the effort of getting out, particularly when conditions aren&#8217;t great, but days like this are an amazing reminder of why all the hassle is definitely worthwhile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4711\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-01.jpg\" alt=\"Tryfan teasing before the cloud cleared \/dropped. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"950\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-01.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-01-768x335.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tryfan teasing before the cloud cleared \/dropped. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4714\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-04.jpg\" alt=\"Looking across the Lleyn Peninsula. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"950\" height=\"288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-04.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-04-768x233.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking across the Lleyn Peninsula. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4713\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-03.jpg\" alt=\"Summit of Carnedd Dafydd. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"950\" height=\"303\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-03.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-03-768x245.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summit of Carnedd Dafydd. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4712\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-02.jpg\" alt=\"Getting late across Ysgolion Duon. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4712\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting late across Ysgolion Duon. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4715\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-05.jpg\" alt=\"Still on the summit of Pen yr Ole Wen; seven minutes until sunset! \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4715\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still on the summit of Pen yr Ole Wen; seven minutes until sunset! \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4716\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-06.jpg\" alt=\"Second set of pink mountains in a week! \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"950\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-06.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-06-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I basically ran from left to right, then back again. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4717\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119-07.jpg\" alt=\"Fading light over Y Garn. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4717\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fading light over Y Garn. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2016<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes question whether it&#8217;s worth the effort of getting out, but days like this are an amazing reminder of why all the hassle is definitely worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1143,825,420,245,396,309],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","category-photography","tag-carnedd-dafydd","tag-carneddau","tag-fell-running","tag-pen-yr-ole-wen","tag-running","tag-snowdonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","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=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}