Hello from the Alps,

At last some pics of my Welsh trip.Here is the first day ( Thursday April 5th) of my walk in the Brecon Beacons - South Wales - with Tiz as an excellent mountain guide. We climbed Corn Du (873 metres), Pen Y Fan (886 metres) and Cribyn (795 metres). Great sunny afternoon on the Welsh hills and beautiful views of the Brecon Beacons National Park with sometimes some wild Welsh Ponies. Even if the walk took us a half day, it was
a great introduction to the Brecon Beacons. Tiz, I thank you very much for everything you did to make my day.

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Greetings from the Alps,

Lionel

Fantastic photos Lionel...you certainly caught the Beacons at their best

Thanks Annie, I was really lucky with the weather in Wales !!

On Friday, April 6th, with Andy, Fiona (who walked up the Miners'path) and Jim, we climbed Snowdon by the famous Crib Goch ridge. A beautiful day and a fantastic scramble on this challenging knife shaped ridge. Andy and Jim, thank you very much for taking me up this great way to climb Snowdon !! We came down by the Miners' path where we met Fiona who had climbed most of it. Well done Fiona !!! . That was a another gorgious day out on the Welsh hills, with excellent company.

Here are my pictures :

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Greetings from the Alps,

Lionel

More fantastic photos Lionel...it's good to see what the ridge looks like in good weather....couldn't see a thing when I did it ...must try and do it again in decent weather

Lionel thanks for the pictures of Pen Y fan it was a great day.

Crib goch is really good fun and the veiws are incredible. Ive done it in great weather and fairly wet and windy I enjoyed both equally. Lionel you will have to come back and do the whole horshoe it really is worth doing.

Great pics Lionel, stunning scenery, fantastic weather...what more could you ask for?

Lovely photos Annie and Lionel. Thanks for posting them.

Wow, what lovely photos! It looks like you had a pretty exhausting "holiday" Lionel!! Some of it looked downright dangerous!! Well done to you all!!

Thanks for that lionel

Hi Lionel

Thanks for sharing your photos. Weather looks fantastic there in Wales! Glad you enjoyed your trip and hope you'll be back for more soon

All the best
Sheila

Hi Crunchie

Your pics of Ben Lomond are great. Glad you enjoyed your first munro - hope it's the first of many!

Cheers
Sheila

hi Annie and Lionel
great pics both. looks like moel siabod is definately on my summer list annie thanx.
Lionel great pics the walk u did with tiz up to graig fan ddu from upper neauadd and over to corn du and pen y fan and back down along tor glas is a great walk and u had great weather to look forward to seeing the rest of your trip.
ps annie how many of snowdonias lakes did strider go in lol

Bonsoir à tous !!!

Hi everybody,

To Annie, Tiz, Mady1, Jacqui, Realconon, Willie h, SheilaB, Alun, many thanks for your comments. I am glad you enjoyed the pics. I have got some more to post here... but I am a bit late downloading them on photobucket. I am quite busy at the moment.

On Saturday April 7th, Andy and I climbed a fantastic hill, Tryfan (915 metres) and then The Glyders - Glyder Fach (994 m) and Glyder Fawr (999 m) before ending our walk with the climb of Y Garn (947 m). That was a fantastic day with some very good scrambling up to the top of Tryfan, then jumping from this famous rock named Adam up to the top of Eve, the second rock and also stepping on the Cantilever rock with the impression that it's going to lose its balance at any moment. Great fun for a great walk in beautiful weather and a total ascent of 1095 metres, which is very good for Wales. Andy, thank you for guiding me to such a beautiful place.

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Jumping from Adam to Eve !

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Greetings from the Alps,

Lionel

I really must learn to look at potential walks in terms of distance walked rather than height of hill. As I was working this morning but had the afternoon free I thought a nice little Corbett should be OK and Benvane next to Ben Ledi seemed a good choice and not far from home.

After 3 hours of squelching up mud and peat with streams running down the paths the cloud suddenly cleared and we could see the summit....

.... it was at least another hours walk away.

This was at 4.15pm so as you can imagine we were reluctant to go on given we didn't know any route back other than the one we'd come up. Called it a day then and headed back down as did not fancy being out til dark (creepy hill - not a single other person was seen the entire day).

Wasn't a very difficult climb aside from the boggy bits but heck I'm not up to walking for 2.5 hours before reaching the blasted hill! It would probably have actually been easier going up Ben Ledi first and following the ridge that links it to Benvane! Added to that it was very windy, creepy and cold. The ridge between Ledi and vane is apparently called "the pass of the dead bodies".

I'll try it again on a better day and when I remember to put 5 pairs of socks and three fleece jackets on.

Alun
Moel Siabod is a great hill...nice and quiet away from the crowds as well...views from the top are fantastic.
Needless to say Strider went in every lake he could...think he swam the whole length of Llyn Idwal ...at least twice

Lionel
Great photos love the ones from Adam to Eve....something on my list of things to do ....good to see what the Glyders look like without the mist

Annie