Snowdon Wild Camp 4/8/13

I decided my first foray into mountain climbing and wild camping should be Snowdon.
I looked at the routes and decided on the South Ridge route (starting out from the Rhyd-ddu car park) as it seemed to be a bit of a challenge!

I set off early afternoon in decent conditions and made fast progress up the rough paths (for saying I had an 18kg pack!).

I began to hit the clouds, so I was making good progress!

The ridge path took me by surprise, only being a foot or so wide (with a sheer drop to the left) I had to cling on and progress dropped considerably, teeth gritted, it was either crack on or turn back and go home..

As the sheer drops disappeared behind me, I breathed a sigh of relief and as a couple of guys passed me, I increased my pace and slipstreamed them to the top. 

 I reached the trig point and began to get a little chilly, I didn't fancy the ridge route back down so I decided to head for the rangers path and veer off to leave the tourists behind.. 

 After a short while I crossed over the rail tracks and found a loose rock clad path which led away from the crowds.

  I descended carefully and saw a perfect looking pitching spot some way below..  

When I arrived I speedily got my shelter set up, the ground was flat and had some natural protection from the decent breeze blowing.

The views were amazing and I took them all in while hungrily downing some boil in the bag meatballs! (I hadn't eaten on the way up).

As the evening began to close in, the slowly setting sun peeped through the clouds and shone a warm glow on my beautiful little oasis! I sipped on a coffee and listened to some music before hitting the sack.

I slept well (even though it rained quite heavy at times during the night).
Morning came and I had the usual coffee/breakfast and peered out of the tent, the rain
had thankfully dispersed during the night, I packed my kit away and donned my
rucksack once again.

It was a fairly short trek (following the rail tracks) back to the car, I did come across a fair sized obstacle and decided it better to backtrack, I was thankful as I had taken a wrong turn! Minutes later and I was back at the car :)