Scrambling on Mount Snowdon

Route: Y Gribin Ridge, Mount Snowdon, Y Lliwedd

Meet at: Nant Peris car park on the A4086 just east of Nant Peris village, OS map reference SH607581, approx postcode LL55 4UF. From there we will use the park and ride service. This is the only realistic way of doing it these days. The only alternative is to book Pen Y Pas car park well in advance at a cost of £20 which is non refundable if the event is rained off. The park and ride works out so much cheaper. As an environmentally conscious group, we actively encourage car sharing. Further details of car sharing arrangements from Sheffield, Manchester and elsewhere will appear in the comments section nearer the time.

Well it had to happen sometime. The first ever Sheffield Mountaineering trip to Mount Snowdon. As the highest peak in England and Wales, this iconic mountain needs no introduction. Its unmistakeable and spectacular conical summit towers over the national park named in its honour and dominates the North Wales skyline for miles around. Our route of ascent will eschew all the busy tourist paths and instead take a much lesser trodden exciting but amenable ridge scramble.

Y Gribin Ridge (not to be confused with its namesake in the Ogwen Valley) rises dramatically from the picturesque tarn of Glaslyn to reach the skyline close to the summit of Mount Snowdon. It is a fairly broad ridge with various possible lines, all offering high quality easy grade scrambling.

The full day will include a steady hike up the lower part of the Pyg Track to the col at Bwlch Y Moch before a descent overlooking the reservoir of Llyn Llydlaw followed by a Grade 1 scrambling ascent of Y Gribin Ridge then on to the summit of Mount Snowdon at 1085 metres from where we will follow the second half of the famous Snowdon Horseshoe over the jagged crest of Y Lliwed and on down the Miners Track to take us back to our starting point at Pen Y Pas.

More information and photos on the Y Gribin Ridge scramble can be seen here:

https://www.livefortheoutdoors.com/routes/hiking/how-to-scramble-y-gribin-ridge-snowdon/

Difficulty: Grade 1 scrambling. For more information on scrambling grades see:

https://www.thebmc.co.uk/understanding-scrambling-grades

Experience Required: Some previous mountaineering/scrambling experience with our group is recommended.

Duration: Approx. 9 km with height gain of approx. 800 metres. Estimated time 6 to 7 hours.

Ordnance Survey Map: Outdoor Leisure 17 Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa 1:25,000 scale.

Guidebook: Scrambles in Snowdonia 2017 edition, published by Cicerone Press.

As always, if everybody wants to contribute £2.00 towards our Meet Up site fees and other operating costs that will be great, thanks.