{"id":670,"date":"2009-10-17T23:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:03","slug":"tryfan-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/tryfan-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tryfan-fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend&#8217;s MPS trip was Tryfan-tastic, continuing my recent trend of visiting nowhere else in Snowdonia.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was the first time I&#8217;ve been out since April, so I wanted to get on easy routes in boots to get myself back into the swing of things before winter starts. Sean, Josh and I pootled up four routes on Tryfan Bach in conditions starting at &#8220;<em>wet<\/em>&#8221; and ending at &#8220;<em>damp<\/em>&#8220;. First we went up the Mod \/ Scramble that I&#8217;ve done a few times before, and then I led a Diff which I think was <em>Crack 4<\/em>. The first pitch was fine, but on the second I trended off to the right and ended up in <em>Chimney Crack;<\/em> I think the sensible route was to carry on up the slab even though there was less gear. Nevertheless, the required move (described by Sean as &#8220;a bit sketchy&#8221;) certainly got my heart racing and was a good first play around after six months off. Sean then led something with a lovely top pitch on Mossy Slab, and we finished with <em>Chimney Crack<\/em>, another Diff. The day was designed as a confidence-building exercise, and worked well in that respect. We also finished in time to get ice cream in Llanberis. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_671\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"size-full wp-image-671\" title=\"First pitch of Crack 4. Copyright Sean Clancy 2009.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017e.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;strong&gt;First pitch of Crack 4.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Copyright Sean Clancy 2009.\" width=\"318\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017e.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017e-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First pitch of Crack 4.Copyright Sean Clancy 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunday dawned dull and rainy, so a group of us opted for the North Ridge of Tryfan, always a safe choice in cruddy weather. It was Chris&#8217; birthday, but I get the distinct impression he spent it cold and wet! He did get presented with a lovely specimen of golden syrup cake on the top of Tryfan though, so hopefully that helped salvage the day. On reaching Bwlch Tryfan I left the rest of the group and went up past Llyn Caseg-fraith to Y Foel Goch. From here I did my first actual run in the hills, down to Capel. It wasn&#8217;t very far, and was distinctly boggy, but was great fun. In other good news, I wasn&#8217;t crippled the next day, so fell-running here I come!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_672\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-672\" class=\"size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"Birthday boy looking a bit sinister on the south summit. Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017f.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;strong&gt;Birthday boy looking a bit sinister on the south summit.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" width=\"475\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017f.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091017f-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birthday boy looking a bit sinister on the south summit.Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend&#8217;s MPS trip was Tryfan-tastic, continuing my recent trend&#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":[58,213,396,290,355,356],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-climbing","tag-mps","tag-running","tag-scrambling","tag-tryfan","tag-tryfan-bach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}