Walking 2:30:00 [1]
Plan was to have a crack at the Snowdon horseshoe. Weather not looking too bad, but cloud down on the ridge, some blustery wind and the rock all very wet. Got to a tricky step on the main face and had some difficulty route finding. J decided to head back but E and I found a line and carried on. Wasn't anything majorly tricky, but had to be really careful on the wet rock. Made slow progress but must have been close to the summit of Crib Goch before we decided to turn round as it was going to take a long time and I knew there was trickier stuff to come. Returned to the Pyg track to climb to the summit looking out for J but managed to miss him. Bought a sandwich in the summit cafe ( J had mine :-() before going back the same way. Met a couple of others we had seen earlier who had also bailed on the ridge - the right decision for the day. Don't remember it being so full on 25 years ago, but I reckon if the rock had been dry it wouldn't have been anything like as intimidating. Something to come back for another day. Out for 4.5h total.
