At the beginning of November Martin and I drove to Capel Curig in North Wales to get in a good weekend of hiking. We stayed at Capel Curig Youth Hostel and on our first day hiked up Y Foel Goch just to the east of Tryfan.
There was a lot of snow on the ground, from a snowstorm that had blanketed the UK a few days before, including London. It was slow going as we climbed, but we eventually made it to a wide ridge with great views through the low clouds over to Tryfan.
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Surprisingly for a November weekend, it was sunny on Sunday morning, and we take an easy route that started right at the hostel, and up to a series of low hills and wet, boggy ground. The route took as higher, over Crimpau, Craig Wen, and up to the ridge of Craigiau Gleision. The views were the best I have seen in Snowdonia, and there was a perfect panorama of mountains against a blue sky.
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On Monday we drove to Pen-y-pas, the most popular place to start the ascent of Snowdon and the infamous Crib Goch. I’ve done this before, but I must admit found it very unnerving. This time we had only a few hours before we had to return to London, so we started on the Miner’s track, which runs from Pen-y-pass to Llyn Llydaw and then on to Snowdon. At the lake, we started uphill, and got the to top of Craig Llyn Teyrn, at the end of the Horns, and had a wonderful view down the valley to Llanberis.