The purpose of this blog is to report on winter climbing conditions in Snowdonia, to keep you lot who like nothing better than climbing ice, snow, frozen turf etc in ridiculously low temps informed!! As well as it being a record of some of my own winter climbing adventures. Feel free to email me any of your own conditions reports & photos you have & I will post them here. The more info on winter conditions the better! email:
andymountains@googlemail.com

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Afon Las, Craig y Rhaeadr & Sargeant's Gully

Hi Andy,

I managed to sneak a day out today. I headed out with Gareth Harvey and Marc Brouard into Cwm Glas Mawr. We decided to do the Afon Las (I/II) as Marc's introduction to ice. It's the outflow of Llyn Glas and was very enjoyable with a few steeper pitches. There were plenty of climbers on Craig y Rhaeadr and Sargeant's Gully and a few on Parsley Fern. At low levels the snow has been subject to freeze-thaw and is firming up, but higher up it's still soft and powdery, so I don't imagine the high gullies are much fun yet.

Hope the ankle is on the mend,

Mike



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