Walking long (Road/XC/Terrain) 14.3km & 1105m.
Bethesda - Carnedd Dafydd - Carnedd Llewelyn - Yr Elen - Bethesda. Gutted to have missed the first couple days of the lads mountain trip but drove up to North Wales after Brown Clee to join Deano, Rich and Dan for the last couple. Dan was fairly broken from their Saturday Glyderau exploits so didn't join us on a Carnethau horsehoe route none of us had done before.
Started off in Bethesda and soon got into some rock hopping action up a gentle river. This was fairly taxing - balance denied with my dodgy right ankle and ended up in plenty boots full of water situations. After the river settled down we moved up onto the gypsy trail and this was fairly boring until we reached the steep part of the ascent. After we were all sweaty betty we got to the scrambling bit and am pleased to report it did live up to the three star rating - some variation possible over a fairly prolonged set of simple steps with some great views and a fair amount of exposure. We chilled Winston at the summit of Carnedd Dafydd with a bbq and a couple of ciders and then death marched the rest of the horseshoe summiting Carnedd Llewelyn and Yr Ellen. The latter was the last of the 15 Welsh 3000's for me to bag and it's been a long time coming!
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