I knew it would be wet but not that wet!

A great Friday and weekend stomping the hills to attempt the 15 Peaks.  The weather was atrocious there is no other word for it.
Friday,  horizontal driving rain with winds gusting to 45mph and we completed the required peaks that day on the Carneddau range 7 in all.  We all arrived back at the hotel soaked and thinking it had been a good day!
Saturday, horizontal driving rain with winds gusting to 55mph.  We were after the 5 peaks of the Glyderau range.  We managed Tryfan and down to the col to ascend the first Glyder and decided the weather would beat us.  We made the difficult decision to abandon the day and descended.  Later that day we observed the rescue chopper having a busy time and believed we had done the right thing.

Sunday, we were attempting the Crib Goch section with the knife edge on to Carnedd Ugain and up to Snowden summit.  If the weather was against us just Snowden and Carnedd Ugain.  I wasnt looking forward to the alternate plan as Crib Goch and the knife edge really make this one the reason to go up.  Luckily we traversed the edge in quite good weather and arrived at the top of Snowden with it looking like Picaddilly Circus due to the crowds up there.
We descended in bright sunshine cursing our bad luck the 2 previous days but promising to return and bag the 4 peaks we missed.

All in all a "character building" weekend and the pics are made more dramatic by the awful weather.  Follow the link below to view them.  Dont miss the short video's!

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Here we all are at the Snowden car park having finished the Crib Goch bit on the final day the summit of which is in the background.  Left to right John, me, Camilla, Jo, Ginny and Adam.