The Watkin Path
There are many ways up Snowdon. I've climbed or walked almost all of them, but never the Watkin Path. Until today that was!



There are many ways up Snowdon. I've climbed or walked almost all of them, but never the Watkin Path. Until today that was!
In very poor visibility, with spindrift flailing across the mountains, we completed a New Year's Day traverse of Ben Nevis up the tourist track and down the CMD. There was some very exciting nav across the final 1/3 of the climb, and the descent off of the ridge was fairly epic. Many thanks to Charlie Beard for all of these photos. Happy 2012!
Intense spindrift and driving winds gusting up the gully gave it quite a Scottish feel. Some interesting freezing belays, I've never had so much ice frozen across my face before. A great introduction to Scottish winter climbing for Cat and Louise!
Walked off in a full-on white out back to the ski car park