It has been an absolutely stunning day here in North Wales today with cold crisp temperatures, blue skies, sunshine and snow down to the road. Emily, Mark and I headed up Little & North Gullies on Tryfan (I/II) and descended the North Ridge (I). I have not done a genuine winter ascent of this route before and it gave a really great winter mountaineering route. Mark lead 4 good pitches and then I took us to the top and back down again. It was -2 degrees c when we got in the van at about 4:15 with a starry sky so it will be a cold one tonight. The snow is still unconsolidated and there is a good coverage in the gullies. It needs a thaw and re-freeze to make really good climbing but hey it will be a white Christmas!
Thanks to everyone for all of the lovely cards and the donations to SARDA aswell, have a great Christmas!
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