h2oville rocket wrote:Anything technical or just a good hard slog? Sounds like you avoided an epic, anyway. Love the Brit climb ratings. Usually something like "Intense, hard extremely difficult 5V" means "pretty easy".
Here you go, h2oville, this is the
Snowdon Horsehoe. No ropes on this route, although there are plenty of pitches along the way. There is something odd about the Welsh mountains. Altitude wise, they don't seem to be much more than foothills on paper. 15 minutes up the path, though, and they are a different ballgame.
The kicker on this route is the "knife edge" on Crib Goch (pronounced "Gock"), which is inches wide in places, sports a 2000ft vertical drop on one side and pretty much the same on the other. Two or three people fall off every year, and I've seen pretty hardened veterans get the heeby geebies for no reason at all and say, "nope, not for me". I'll respect that. When the clouds are down and the rocks are slick anyone can lose it.
Anyhow, I'm back at the ranch now. Wearing a white t-shirt, because I can't find any orange and for some damned reason everything seems to be blue. What is it with blue?