After a good breakfast at the Pinnacle Cafe in Capel Curig, we drove along the A5 to the Ogwen Valley and parked in the layby opposite the Milestone Buttress.
The weather was almost perfect with lots of sun but cool but it was a bit windy.
We set off up the steep path with large stone steps passing the side of Milestone Buttress then up to the shoulder of the North Ridge overlooking Little Tryfan and the nearby camp site of Gwern Gof Uchaf. There were quite a few others who set off too fast and had to keep stopping for rests while we continued with a reasonable pace and traversed below a large school party as they followed another route above. There are quite a few different “paths” leading through this steep, rocky ground.
Soon we began the first section of easy and pleasant scrambling pausing at the Cannon for photos and then more scrambling sections. Unfortunately I did something to my left knee at some point and it was becoming painful so although we initially intended to traverse Tryfan and then continue up Bristly Ridge onto Glyder Fach, we decided to drop down the path from Bwlch Tryfan down past Llyn Bochlwyd.
We sat on the summit busy with walkers including the inevitable small group taking it in turns to clamber up on one of the pair of large up-ended stones on the summit known as Adam and Eve (but no one knows which is which!).
We had lunch and then clambered down the south side to reach the col or bwlch (in Welsh) between Tryfan and Glyder Fach, pausing to look longingly at Bristly Ridge continuing invitingly ahead, before dropping down the path leading past Llyn Bochlwyd and then below Bochlwyd Buttress with five pairs of climbers climbing various routes on the sunny side.
We soon were back at the layby despite having to walk fairly slowly due to my painful knee and I was surprised to see a note under one of the windscreen wipers.
I took the note and read it: it was from fellow Orpheus Caving Club member Mick Hogg who was accompanying his son Liam who was fishing in the Llyn Ogwen next to the layby.
We changed out of our walking boots and found Mick laying in the sun as Liam fished and after a quick chat, we headed for Capel Curig for a meal at the tent of tinned beans and sausages for me and Super Noodles for Karen.
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| Tryfan from the West. The North Ridge runs from right to left with the large stone blocks of Adam and Eve just visible on the summit |
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| A Milestone on the A5 below Milestone Buttress |
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| The Cannon |
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| Karen scrambling on the North Ridge |
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| Higher up the North Ridge with Llyn Ogwen below |
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| The main summit |
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| Adam and Eve with a passing walker |
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| Bristly Ridge leading up Glyder Fach |
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| Rock climbing on Bochlwyd Buttress |
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