I spent the weekend working at Plas Y Brenin, directing a Discover Scrambling Course for two Clients. We had a great weekend, and manage to make ascents of Tryfan and Crib Coch, as well as looking at the emergency use of a rope for scramblers. Saturday was a scorching day on Tryfan’s North Ridge, before descending with the ocassional use of the rope, on a few of the trickier steps. We got back early and did some rope work on the ski slope.
The Sunday was set to be a bad weather day, so we headed out with a plan in my head to teach the students some sound mountaineering decisions. The plan was to make our way up to the start of the knife edge ridge of crib coch, and see what the weather was doing, and if it was bad turn round and use the new rope skills in descent.
Fortunately the weather was great, so we made the decision to travese the Knife-edge ridge of Crib Coch. As we reach the first pinnacle the rain started to set in, with a few drops a minute to start with, we sat and had lunch at Blwch Coch and made a decision that to continue with teh weather deteriorating would be foolish, so headed down the lee slope towards the PYG track, and walked back to Pen Y Pass, where we did some more ropework before hitting the new Cafe at Pen Y Pass.