This is The south-east side of Tryfan, taken appromimately an hour after sunrise on a lovely hot day in Snowdonia.

The traffic up to Snowdonia the previous day was a nightmare. One stretch of the M5, south of Birmingham took around one and three quarters of an hour to progress around four miles. In total, the journey from Taunton to Snowdon took seven hours, without any stops!

I was over two hours later than my intended arrival time and Alex and Roger went on ahead to set up camp, as I didnt want them to miss the sunset, due to my late arrival. Some mis-heard directions over a bad phone line, whislt driving through the mountains led me to approach Tryfan from the west rather than the east and I ended up wandering around trying to find the planned camping spot for nearly two hours.

This day was spent climbing up to Tryfan summit, hopping both ways between the 'Jack and Jill' stones at the top, before returning to pack up camp, hike across the Glyder ridge, taking in Castell y Gwynt and doing an obligatory star jump on the cantelliever stone!

The weather had been hot and fine all day, but as evening approached, the clouds closed in, the wind picked up and we decided to make for lower ground to spent the night.

As this turned out, it was a very fortunate decision, as we awoke at around 1am to an almighty thunder storm raging all around us. The lightning strikes were distant as first, but seemed to sweep right over us, with several strikes being within half a mile or so. The thunder physically shook the ground beneath us and one very close strike, we estimated to be within about 200 metres of out tents made us physically shake too! It was like a bomb going off nearby. A fun and exciting initiation to the Glyder ridges, Snowdonia.