In reply to Spready:
Your photos reflect conditions well - but excellent day when the sun was shining none the less.
I thought snow was variable, some slab, some graupel and powder and other patches of snow-ice about, but limited accumulations (due to the wind?) - turf was frozen from about 800m+, ice forming at this height too - usual smears above zig-zags on Yr Wyddfa, in Sargeant's Gully ( rather lean, needs another day or two (if we get them?)), and on various outcrops in Upper Cwm Glas - plenty of 'sport'/'practice pitches' to be had if not complete climbs.[ice on Central icefall as well, but nowhere near anything to climb.]PFG would go as a lean snow/iced up scramble maybe ?
An enjoyable day spent weaving up the open slopes left of Parsley Fern in Cwm Glas.
If you can get a day free tomorrow - go for it - not bad way to see in Spring - visibility was excellent today.
For the anoraks 3" of riming over 1000m, wind speed at the cwm headwall av 40mph+, max gust 51mph ( force 9) at 2pm, giving windchill of -22 deg cel.
I think this the latest I've managed a 'winter day' in North Wales in the last 17 years, although I've mentioned routes several times around the 10th ish of March before (96, 00, 06 for example) - anyone else ?
