Croesor to Rhosydd through trip (CRTT)
Visited with AndyJ, Jay, Sean Taylor and myself.
I hadn’t been out for a few weeks and was in need of something to do, with 4 days off looming and the kids been off school it was time to make plans, I wanted a bit of a play without having to lug a load of kit, the obvious choice was the CRTT (Croesor to Rhosydd through trip)
Me and Andy had both done it a number of times, Sean had done it once before and our Jay does what hes told, what could possibly go wrong.
We arranged to meet at my house at 7.30am, we did quite well and people were only a little bit late. We all got in Andy's car, which in its self is no mean feet and off we went, arriving at the lakeside café for about 9.45, Time for a quick bite to eat and then up to the parking spot for Cwmorthin to get ready for the walk up.
We all got our gear together and off we went, Andy looked to of had enough gear with him to completely re-rig the trip, while the rest of us didn’t have much gear at all, I would later be very thankful for this, on setting off there was a sprinkling of snow on the ground, this quickly turned to ice, by the time we had got up to Rhosydd, we were battling 2ft deep snow covered with 3†of ice, most of the time the 3†thick ice would hold your weight, but now and again it wouldn't, making for a long hard slog over to Croesor.
Walking from cwmorthin to Croesor must of took near on 2 hours and was treacherous, but we made it without any major issues, we got to the entrance and went in, we got as far as the air shaft and randomly found the way blocked by snow, the whole adit was frozen with some quite impressive icicles, we managed to climb over the snow and made our war further in.
We got to the bottom of the climb up to the first pitch, we got kitted up and made our way up, a quick inspection of the ropes was made and it was decided that they were in poor condition but should be OK if used with care, Andy went first followed by Jay, me then Sean, all down we went over to the second pitch, again a quick inspection of the rope showed it was badly worn where it was tied to the anchor, someone had obviously seen this before as they had changed the deveation into a rebelay, the hanger here was also loose, not great, it made getting onto the rope interesting, I lost the coin toss and was made to go first, I was followed by Jay, Sean then Andy. Next is the zip line, Jay went first, then me then Andy, Jay wanted another go so pulled his self back over to the other side, then came back, followed by Sean.
Everything from this point was the same old, the swinging bridge, the 3 BoD's (or what’s left of them) then the boat crossing, Me and Jay got in the boat first, Sean took us over to the other side, the Sean and Andy came next, Jay pulling them over, from here we made our way to number 9 adit passing the twll on the way, it was impressive with snow and Ice and 20ft icicles.
We could see it was still light, but time was ticking on, we didn’t fancy the walk back to Cwmorthin in the snow and ice in the dark, so made our way out, getting back at the car for 7pm.
A quick change and off we were, back to Manchester!
All in all a great day...
Is Jay the first child to make the trip un-aided? i dunno, but he loved it...
some pic's
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Bad luck on the coin toss lol. Great report and awesome piccies. You obviously had a great time ... sorry I missed it :unsure:
Ian