Wales - 2015
21 June 2015 ........... Elidir Fawr and Carnedd Filiast
Strange weather - and through the morning the tops were slowly clearing, so by lunchtime I thought that a quick trip up to Elidir Fawr might work okay.
It turned out that Elidir Fawr was just on the northern edge of a big block of low cloud, so I had broken sunshine all afternoon, but with a cold northwest wind.
Away to the north it was incredibly clear, and I could the Isle of Man and Ireland - and something I have never seen before was the fact that I could see the horizon between sea and sky over the top of and away beyond Holyhead Mountain. I wonder if there was some kind of optical diffraction going on.
The Lleyn Peninsula was clear, and I could see right down it, and Yr Eifl was looking good.
The Eifionydd weren`t doing so well - the higher tops were in cloud.
Snowdon was looking a bit dour but just out of the cloud - you can see the big block of cloud just beyond it -
The Glyders were well clear of the cloud, and looking good in the broken sunshine -
Heading round past Mynydd Perfedd and along the fairly wind blasted ridge up to Carnedd Filiast, and looking down on the amazing rippled rock face along the north side of Carnedd Filiast.
Looking at the picture, I realised that it is the same rippling effect that is on various slabs of rock at the top of Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons - I`d still love to know what caused it, and how it ended up on top of mountains.
By now Snowdon has succumbed to the cloud - bye bye Snowdon !
On the summit of Carnedd Filiast now, having difficulty standing up against the wind, and looking back to Elidir Fawr, before heading back down - a good afternoon out, and as it turned out, a good choice of mountain !
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