Crib Goch with Vahid

I tend to coordinate lunch with Martin and Susan, but you could argue that is superfluous. Quite a lot of the staff eat at the same time and at the same place. So you are rarely without company. My colleagues Winnie and Marianna often appear too, for instance. And there is a chap called Vahid who often shows up, but so far he has escaped to mention on his blog. And he only has limited time to appear on it! In the not too distant future, he is going to move to Bristol.

Recently he asked if anyone had done Crib Goch. Most of us had. And I asked him if he wanted to know because he wanted to do it himself. And the answer was yes. But he didn't want to go alone. I said I was quite happy to go with him. I had only done it once, but you can't get lost on Crib Goch. And we were in the middle of a spell of bright and calm weather, which is perfect for the purpose. So we decided that if the weather was going to be good in the weekend I wasn't busy with Jenny and races, we would do it.

The weather was perfect. Vahid decided we should go on the Sunday, and I had said that it is best to go quite early. Our plan was to drive up to Llanberis quite early, take the bus to Pen-y-Pass, do Crib Goch, and then walk back over the Llanberis path. And so we did.

We obviously started on the Pyg Track. And that is really beautiful really quickly. And it was busy, but not stupid busy. And then we got to where the Crib Goch path veers off. The views rapidly get even better there! And the scrambling is fun. Vahid was very happy. And me too. It was such a gorgeous day! And what’s better than enjoying beautiful landscapes in good company? 

Only a stone’s throw from the parking lot/bus stop

 

 

 

Intrepid hikers

View on Llyn Llydaw

The scramble to the ridge

There were quite some people on the ridge, but not so many it was annoying.Vahid was impressed with the ridge’s good looks. And it wasn’t particularly windy. 

On the Crib

On the other side of the Crib there was some more scrambling. And we sat down for some food. There was also a Coastguard helicopter hovering around, to the delight of Vahid who has helicopter-minded relatives.

More scrambling

After all the scrambling we walked to the Llanberis path. We decided to pop to the summit, which was quite close by now anyway. If you do that, you get the views of the Watkins Path as a reward! Luckily, we both agreed on that queueing for the actual summit was pointless. So we soon started our way down.

Summit pic

We had been a bit scourse on the ridge, but during the lockdown we had a nice breeze so we weren't bothered by the Sun. We did have to sit down and extend the parking for Vahid’s car as we were taking longer than expected. But then we got down without further issues.

On a different day it would probably have been nice to go for ice cream in the village, or something like that, but with us having spent so much time on the hill it was better we just stayed at home. His house was full of children, and by now maybe his wife needed a bit of backup. And I had chores to do.

I hope we can take a few more mountains off his list before he goes! This had been a lovely day. And he agreed with that. So don't be surprised if there’ll be more of this in the near future!