out and about - 2018
03 July 2018 .............. Super lighting on Cader Idris
The evening sunlight coming away round from the north west produced some amazing lighting along the north side of Cader Idris - or Cadair Idris if that is your prefered spelling - the best I have ever seen.
It fairly showed up all the crags and the gullies - it is a fabulous looking ridge when you see it like this.
I have only ever been up Mynydd Moel, the most easterly of the three summits - the leftmost one in this picture - and the weather wasn`t anything like this - although I wasn`t in cloud, the rest of the ridge was, so I didn`t get any kind of a view along the ridge.
PS - just in case anyone suspects me of committing some kind of traffic violation, I was standing on the grass verge just before the roundabout to take the picture, I wasn`t driving at the time.
Cader Idris is very elusive because there are so many trees along the roadsides you just never see it, and that roundabout is just about the only place in the whole area from which you can see Cader Idris, so you have to park down a wee side road and walk round to the roundabout to get the view.
You get a very - very - brief view from a spot back up the A487 before it drops away down the hill, but there is no possibility of stopping - now if the council would just build a layby at that very place so I can stop and look at Cader Idris, that would be very nice of them.
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