Mollsters Mountain Yr Wyddfa june 10th 2013

Another mountain to be climbed today , Mollster has been wanting to go climbing again  ...the weather forecast was looking good ish!   so Mt Snowdon seemed a good idea for today.
 Snowdon is in the snowdonia national park in North Wales , at 1085m  (3,560 ft ) it is Wales and British isles highest peak outside Scotland.
Parking up at Pen-y-pass car park £10 rip off!!!!!!!   i can see loads blue sky at present, but looks a bit misty up near the summit.  We are taking the Pyg track up to the summit, and will descend down the miners track.

We have started walking , blue sky and quite warm for a change. heading up towards Crib Goch.  here is the valley looking down to Llanberis where the rack and pinion railway starts from.

Having reached the top of the path where it splits to go up Crib , we take the left path where we can now see Llyn Llydaw and Snowdon itself. The white path that you can see is the Miners track that goes around Llyn Llydaw down in the valley.

                                                What,Why & How did a chair get up here??????????

 We are getting great views from up here , Heading towards the Glaslyn view point now at the top of this path on the right that winds up the mountain side.

            We have made good progress up the track you can see on the left side of below image.

Don't know where all the blue sky has gone :(  Glaslyn is below us now and we are very near to the top now.

At the top ridge , the rail track makes a good diagonal across this image. i can hear a train coming, wonder what Mollster will think of it :D

                                                 She is trying to chase the train   haha

                             Admiring the awesome view from just below the summit.

                                                         Beautiful pose Molly.

                              Mollster has reached the Summit of Snowdon   YAY!

                              What a shame the cloud and mist has covered up all the views!

           its turned quite chilly up here as the cloud builds, good job  i brought a fleece :)

           The summit cafe/railway station, its really busy up here, walkers are having to wait  to get in !

        Sun light breaking though the clouds painting the valleys with light while Mollster poses :)

           

                                                         A nice Molly portrait :)

       The track back down to Glaslyn is behind Molly and goes down around the lakes in the distance.

 A Stunning view from the summit, sea gulls are having a great time and Molly is watching them :)

                        Looking behind the mist and low cloud has rolled in, very atmospheric !

         The sun is painting light on the fabulous landscape ,a good view of the lakes Glaslyn at bottom of image and Llyn Llydaw near the centre. the white path halfway up the image is where we have just walked, and the lower path down to Glaslyn is our way down.

                                                             Molly is posing :)      as usual!

                                We are heading down now after a nice half hour rest.

this is near the top of the steep path down to meet the miners track at Glaslyn , it is quite loose under foot!  but Molly having 4 paw drive its not a problem   hehe

 

                     

                                 "are we going down there Dad? "  Molly is thinking

       Yes Mollster, that is Glaslyn , you might paddle if you pick up the courage  lol

having reached the Glaslyn Molly is actually paddling, but only ankle deep !   the water is stunningly clear and the sun is lighting up the far side , wonderfull view

                                                        My favorite image of the day

walking back to the car park, i stop to watch the welsh mountain goats on the hill side before ending the day .its been a superb 7 hour walk today

                                                          the end of another super walk.

                                             all images shot with canon 5d mk2 & 17-40 L

Snowdons PYG track march 18th pt3

Continuing the walk ,PT 2 HERE we are heading up to the view point above Glaslyn , the ground conditions are getting very slippery now with the snow getting deeper and i can see walkers struggling to get up the steep section above the lake.

Fabulous views from up here today , it doesn't feel cold either with the sun reflecting warmth off the snow.  Mollster is really enjoying herself and she sinks up to her belly in the snow here .

          walking a little further up the mountain side to get clean undisturbed snow to get this image.

The summit of Snowdon is shrouded in mist and low cloud ahead of us as we climb higher to get our first view of Glaslyn.

                                                           Posing again are we Mol?

We have now reached our first view of Glaslyn with Snowdon behind, Mol is posing again , she is showing off i think!

                                                           this is the view ahead , stunning 
I turn around to the view behind of Llyn Llydaw and she is posing yet again!  come on Moll, get out of the way for a change

come on Mollster , we need to get a move on. a long way to go yet and to get back to car park before the ticket runs out.   Glaslyn in the distance is our target, the path passes high above it.  we are making good progress now.

                                          look at her zig zag tracks in the snow  hehe

 

 We have now reached to top of this section, the sky is really threatening but it is going the other way, looks like its snowing in the distance but the suns out here

This is Glaslyn with Snowdon behind, this path climbs steeply up the right hand side in the image below , would need crampons to go up there today i think for safety.

                                                                 Looking confused!

Heading back now after a photo shoot , its been a superb walk, a little slippery on the steeper sections though. Mol is running through the deep snow now

the view back towards the car park, sun has disappeared now. I have to take it easy going down now, don't want to slip!

We have reached the style i had to get Mol to jump over , from this side i have to help her as its a higher drop , she still hasnt got the hang of jumping these yet!

having reached the bottom near to the pen-y-pass car park i take one last image of Mollster with the Lamberis pass in the background.

what a fantastic day we have had, really didnt expect that much snow , but with the sun it was quite warm most of the day.  the forecast is for more snow so i think there will be many more snowy adventures this spring, winter doesnt want to relinquish its grasp this year!