Nantlle Ridge

After a number of years of wanting to do the Nantlle Ridge, we finally ended up in North Wales with a weather window which would enable us to enjoy the ridge at it’s best.

As the weather was best in the morning we started fairly early, which enabled us to see a beautiful sunrise as we were leaving the hut in Rhyd Ddu.

The start of the walk soon woke us up, but once we were established on the ridge it was just brilliant. We had wonderful views in every direction and good weather, apart from the very strong wind!

The scrambling was not extensive, but some of it was fairly involved if you stayed on the ridge crest rather than skirting off on the path to the side.

The final section of ridge before the descent was fairly hard going underfoot, and if I were to do the ridge again I might have descended sooner.

We had dropped a car at the end the night before, but somehow avoided having to do shuttle runs as Becky managed to hitch a lift with the only person we saw all day, who happened to be at the end as we descended.

The conditions for the rest of the weekend were much less favourable due to storm Ciara. On Saturday we wondered up to look at Aber falls, and on Sunday we mostly hid from the conditions apart from briefly leaving the car to go wave watching.