Theatons Blog

We set of up Meol Siabod near capel curig in snowdonia on Friday the 29th June 2007. The weather had predicted rain and some of the crew had previously expressed doubts as to weather we’d keep dry during the night. With my gortex bivvy bag, i didn’t care how much it slashed it down, and actually slightly hoped it did so i could enjoy watching the rest of them suffer

Having previously planned to go up on the saturday, we ended up going on the friday in a last minute thing to hopefully try and beat the rain. Tom Eaton was under the impression we were off camping in a car park, hence bringing his guitar…etc

Here is Tom Eaton carrying his monstrous load before we set off up the mountain.

A group shot showing, left to right, Hoppy, Duffy and Tom eaton, the mountain is in the background although it doesn’t look big, the top is actually shrouded the top by mist.

Here is Hoppy and Tom Eaton making their way across the bridge

A good photo of Tom Eaton pointing to what he believed was a UFO that had landed, it was obviously just one of many rocks on the hill side.

Instead of following the ‘trail’ up to the top, we took the ‘backroute’ through the forestry commision roads to get to where this sheep pen is (about 20mins walk from the very top top). Me and Adam Gregory on a previous expedition had suffered this route before, and i knew from experience everyones feet were going to get soaked from walking through the bog to get there. What i had forgotten however, was just how horrible wet feet were..

Luckily i had bought a complete ‘dry set’ of clothing with me, should it go completly tits up.
Anyway, here is a photo of the impassable bog we had to cross;