SnowSlider - Blogging From the mountains by ise

I’ve had some flu like symptons for a week or so and apart from strolling to the next village not really got out much, I’m not really 100% but an easy walk in the pre-alpes looked like a good idea. I wanted to go to Schwyberg again and take a look another look at the area, I’ve not snow shoed around there but it looks excellent terrain so I wanted to get an idea of the ground before the first snow.

Last time we were over there was Julie’s birthday when it was pretty awful weather, torrential rain and thunder storms, I’m just back from the UK and some time in Wales where it always seems to rain but they never really get storms of the sudden violence we have here. Anyway, today was actually rather fine, mostly clear skies and around 10′c in the valley and slightly colder on the tops with a fairly cool breeze, really just perfect conditions for walking.


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I’ve been in Snowdonia for a while doing some training and some personal hillwalking, this is a random collection of photo’s in between some fairly wild weather. These rather fantastic Welsh wild ponies were high up the Carneddau range, I’d climbed the beautiful Pen yr Ole Wen ridge from Idwal cottage. I’d climbed this in the winter years ago and recall how good it was so I wanted to go back and do it again.

Finding these ponies was just a bonus, they look so at home in the mountains and it’s great we’ve still got space for them to roam free like this.


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Scrambling towards some steeper ground on a Mountain Leader course from Plas y Brenin in the typical wet Welsh weather.

High up on the exposed ridge of Pen yr Ole Wen in the Carneddau range of North Wales.