Ice climb/snow gully. Grade 1-2
mdg skidmore - AltLd O/S - 25/Mar/13 with Kiwi paul, joe penfold
Hidden - Solo - 05/Mar/13
Hidden - 27/Feb/13
timofy - AltLd - 27/Feb/13
Good fun. Really good conditions which was a surprise and a few icy steps.
jezb1 - Solo - 26/Feb/13
bullybones - Solo - 24/Feb/13
moving together throughout
cragtyke - Lead - 21/Feb/13 with Ross
Deezel65 - 2nd O/S - 21/Feb/13 with Cragtyke
Lovely ice step about half way up. Snow very hard.
JasonV - Solo - 17/Feb/13 with Dale
Rain all the way up into the Cwm, no snow on Cneifon Arete so went and found the gully in nil vis. Wet snow but an ok base, small ice pitch halfway up. Excellent overall after nearly not going up.
Zoomer - Solo O/S - 10/Feb/13 with George Best
herman0055 - Solo - 10/Feb/13 with Glen bloomer
Great condition. Tony and Rod followed.
Joss - 09/Feb/13 with Daz Haycock
Hidden - Lead O/S - 07/Feb/13
Lead 2nd, 4th and 6th pitch. Cold wet but lots of fun. Will never wear softshell in ogwen ever again.
Matt Adey - Lead O/S - 26/Jan/13
Snow holed the night quick ascent and snow bollard through the cornice down the Cwm desent.
Mr jangles - Solo O/S - 26/Jan/13 with liam prince
Downclimbed
Tom Livingstone - Solo - 22/Jan/13 with Jez
Hidden - Solo - 19/Jan/13
Nice little morning jolly after snowholing it for the night, snow bollard decent back down through cornice, which was nice.
liam prince - Solo O/S - Jan/13 with Rex Wade
Hjort - Solo rpt - 11/Dec/12 with Alex King, Emlyn Roberts
Night climb following the snow, more to the right than the main gully
emlynroberts - Solo - 11/Dec/12 with Alix King, Toby Vye
Resonable condition! Even a step of proper ice!
HarryB - Solo O/S - 08/Dec/12 with Al
Hidden - Solo O/S - 03/Feb/12
Hidden - 03/Feb/12
robjdc - Solo O/S - 03/Feb/12 with Wessex
wolf.leeb - Solo O/S - 29/Jan/12 with nic
Hidden - 2012
Hidden - Solo - 18/Dec/11
Jasons first time in crampons and first winter route, did well. Hard work on approach,soft powder snow.Powder bottom of gully, good hard ice in middle section, firmer snow above, desended Seniors ridge on dodgy deep powder.
Fiskavaig - Solo - 18/Dec/11 with Jason J, Paul R, Craig G
Ice was a bit thin and hollow in places, but good fun
Andy_B39 - Solo O/S - 17/Dec/11 with Ben Rigby
A very thin line, but some great ice in the steps. Certainly harder than II in the conditions, and if you went direct.
Ed Saint - 22/Jan/11
beths second winter climb to date she did well with walking axes and a bad shoulder very windy at times lots of flying debris beth took one clean on the nose still no need for expensive plastic surgery and of course no sun today as the met office had suggested . descent via gribin ridge.
uncle clive - AltLd O/S - 09/Jan/11
barni - Solo O/S - 09/Jan/11 with Karen, Liam fleming
Hidden - Solo - 08/Jan/11
Nice route, short and sweet. Good neve all the way up and ice steps at mid heght. Started solo but a lot of rock and ice debris falling through the gully (from parties above) so we roped up through the ice step and moved together to continue.
Joss - Lead O/S - 08/Jan/11 with Rod Lloyd Jones
Janet's first winter climb. Kev lead final pitch.
Steve Woollard - Lead - 08/Jan/11 with Janet Cotter, Kevin Colclough
Hidden - Solo - 08/Jan/11
Haytor_Haggis - AltLd - 08/Jan/11 with Steve Woollard
twem - Solo O/S - 03/Jan/11 with Andy Harbach
In descent after doing Hidden Gully on the opposite side of the Cwm. An ice step provided some interest.
Misha - Solo O/S - 02/Jan/11
Thin conditions!
Sean Kelly - Solo - 02/Jan/11
Fiskavaig - Solo - 02/Jan/11 with Paul R
Icy cascade over chockstone at the narrows halfway. Avoided much debris from a group above.
mysterion - 02/Jan/11
Snow was a bit soft but there were two small ice pitches that made it fun
bennevis - AltLd O/S - 08/Dec/10 with paul
Hidden - Solo - 05/Dec/10
wonderfull day the ice pitch took me by surprise
a bit spicey
tunaficiency - Solo O/S - Nov/10
good snow conditions
cragtyke - Solo - 04/Apr/10
alisonk - 2nd - 04/Apr/10 with Dave
davidk - Lead - 04/Apr/10 with alison
amthalmann - Solo O/S - 02/Apr/10
The Mountain Goat - Solo O/S - 14/Mar/10
Nice quick route, reckon it was the last day of winter for it though as start was like swimming!
monkeyboyraw - Solo β - 14/Mar/10 with Scorch
bjlsmith - Solo O/S - 13/Mar/10 with Su and SMC
Descent route.
Hjort - Solo rpt - 09/Mar/10 with Gary Rees Williams, Emlyn Roberts
Night decant after Corner gully
emlynroberts - Solo - 09/Mar/10 with Toby Vye, Gary Rees Williams
Hidden - Lead O/S - 07/Mar/10
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 07/Mar/10
BorisVBlade - Solo O/S - 05/Mar/10
Roger Cruse - Solo O/S - 28/Feb/10 with Kris, Buffy & Andy S
Messed about on the iced up bits to the right briefly.
Hjort - Solo O/S - 27/Feb/10 with Emlyn Roberts
emlynroberts - Solo - 27/Feb/10 with Toby Vye
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 13/Feb/10
Templeton Adams - Lead - 13/Feb/10 with Darren H
twem - Solo dnf - 13/Feb/10 with Andy Harbach
Andrew.Davies - Solo - 12/Feb/10 with aaron
Climbed in descent. Should revisit it and go the proper way.
Karlos - Solo O/S - 07/Feb/10
Hidden - Solo O/S - 06/Feb/10
Hidden - 2nd - 06/Feb/10
jambomotamops - Solo O/S - 05/Feb/10 with Sophie
sonnenstern - Solo - 05/Feb/10 with Jam
Finished up harder ice variation on right hand side and then climbed back down the gully
MikeLell - Solo O/S - 05/Feb/10
Russell Roberts - Solo - Feb/10
Hidden - Solo - Feb/10
In good condition
chrisbryant - Solo - 31/Jan/10
fizzychewitt - Solo - 31/Jan/10
Ian Andrews - Solo O/S - 31/Jan/10 with Norman Clacher, Martin Worthy
Hidden - Lead - 30/Jan/10
donkster - Solo O/S - 19/Jan/10 with mudders
offroute - 06/Jan/10 with richard vain, karen dalzell
no ice, plenty of snow, only found it by accident after deciding toi decend from the head wall due to poor visability and deteriorating conditions
ayuplass - Solo - 02/Jan/10 with miles
ayuplass - Solo O/S - 02/Jan/10 with miles
deep snow not consolidated good turf
Rich35 - Solo - Jan/10
Hidden - Solo O/S - Jan/10
Hidden - Solo - 2010
Wonderful route - SB's first winter route too.
Tom Hutton - AltLd - 28/Dec/09 with Summerblue
Hidden - Solo - 27/Dec/09
middlemarker - AltLd - 26/Dec/09 with Jonathan
Hidden - Lead O/S - 23/Dec/09
Ice not brilliant a lot of powder on route. we soloed for the first section then tied on to rope and fras lead the final difficulty. All good fun
Ewan Russell - AltLd O/S - 22/Dec/09 with Fraser
Hidden - Lead O/S - 22/Dec/09
Descended the first obvious snow gully after walking right off the top of Tower Slabs. Might be tower gully or corner gully.
mike_hough_uk - Solo - 14/Feb/09 with Mark Thompson, Jenny Gorman
Hidden - Solo - 26/Jan/09
devilman - Solo O/S - 07/Dec/08
bms - AltLd - 02/Dec/08 with BCS
garythomas - Lead - Dec/08 with James Whittaker
climber sim - 2007
Climbed solo with Gary
Mark A Humphries - Solo O/S - 27/Feb/06
TGreen - Solo O/S - 25/Feb/06 with Martin G
AJM - Solo O/S - Mar/05 with Tom Lambert, Alan Dickinson
Templeton Adams - Solo - Feb/05 with sherp
Water ice pitches made it harder.
bms - AltLd - 28/Feb/04 with DW
Hidden - AltLd - 28/Feb/04
In March 1996, pitch 2 was an ice pitch (my lead). Rest of climb was easy. Grand day out, descent by Gribin Ridge.
Ian Robertson - AltLd - 09/Mar/96 with Krystina Lotoczko
Hidden - Lead O/S - 04/Jan/96
Hidden - Lead O/S - 30/Dec/92
nickcanute - Solo - Feb/91
Hidden - Solo - Feb/90
nicholas Barrowclough - Lead - 0000 with Pete Morgan