TNH: Foel Gron again

I wasn’t sure about this week’s TNH. I had been away over the weekend, and chores had piled up. I had been busy doing some emergency catching up with these on Monday night. On Tuesday I was on the track, and on Wednesday I had been marshalling a race. I was tired and felt a bit apprehensive about all the other things that needed doing. 

I went anyway. We gathered in Llanberis. That happens often! And we headed for the eastern shore of Llyn Dwythwch. There is no path there, so the running is uncomfortable. Uneven terrain, mostly parallel to a slope. But the views are really good. 

Just out of town

Past Llyn Dwythwch 

We came to the ridge in the saddle between Foel Goch and Foel Gron. The views were great there too! And where would we go from there? Up, of course. And westward, to Foel Gron. The previous time we had been there, we had taken a ludicrous decent straight down from the ridge. Would we do that again? Or would we go around? That would add 100 m ascent to the run. But that was hardly outside the range for the TNH. 

Off-piste ascent

On the saddle

Scenic evening shot

It turned out we descended the ridge between Cwm Cesig and Cwm yr Hafod. Still very steep but not quite as steep as that last time in June. And then things got more civilised again. 

The descent

The view back down in the valley

It had taken us well over 2 hrs! I was quite peckish by the time we were done. But I was glad I had gone. It had been beautiful! And I could do chores the next day…