Is this a hike you'd do or are you put off by the scramble, the scree, the boulder fields or just how epic and strenuous it looks? I'd love to know your thoughts.
Nothing wrong with stopping to "enjoy the view". Far better to take your time, than throw yourself at it and end up so knackered the whole experience becomes a horrible trial. You certainly had a lovely day for it. I'm on Anglesey, and there are many days when we can't even see the mainland for cloud!
What a beautiful day for a hike! The lovely weather definitely made the early start worth it. The scrambling across the loose stones and boulders looked tough but the views at the top made up for it. If you don't get a little bit lost on a hike then you're not doing it properly - another fab video! North Wales looks amazing. Hope the legs weren't too sore the next day but at least you were rewarded with an ice cream at the end.
We were so lucky with the weather that week! And I agree, I am ALWAYS getting a little lost, even on the clearest paths and way marked trails, I somehow manage getting lost with such ease! The legs weren't as bad as they were after Ben Nevis the next day and that hike seems to be the yard stick I judge more recent hikes by now! 🤣 So pleased you enjoyed the video!
WOW! What a GORGEOUS area and beautiful hike! Those rocks at the top are insane! We would absolutely love to hike this 😍 Looks like so much fun (and mega hard) with the scrambling and ladders and totally up our alley! I always speak too soon on hikes too 😂 “this isn’t bad!”…minutes later “just kidding!”
Oh my goodness, you have no idea how happy I was to see this message and know you liked the video/hike enough to comment on it! Personally I much preferred it to Snowdon, even though Snowdon has 'the name'. When you eventually make it to Snowdonia, this would have been be my number 1 recommendation for you guys so stoked I was spot on! ❤️
Omg I went down the steep path that people warned against going down 😢 it was so scary and I felt I wouldn't make it down. The challenge of that scramble had adrenaline pumped max.
A.Perrin you are most welcome. It's one of the things I've always loved myself as a UA-cam viewer getting to virtually experience things you couldn't first hand your self and reading your comment knowing I've been able to do the same for someone else has put a huge smile on my face 😊 ❤
So pleased this has been helpful for you. I hope you enjoy the hike as much as we did. We did this almost 2 years ago to the day so vegetation wise it should be very similar.
I climbed this at the weekend after Watching this video and a few others. Sadly there was dense fog and snow at the top so I didn't get the views and the scree and boulders were made worse due to the weather but what a hike!
Hi Luke, so pleased this video and some others inspired the hike. I bet doing it in December is a completely different experience to the one we had. The idea of hiking that high up with snow is a little scary, but exciting all at the same time!
Great footage; I've never gone up that scree field, been down it about a dozen times and it's a real knee-buster! You should try the Glyderau Horsehoe: Tryfan's North Ridge, Bristly Ridge, Glyder Fach, Glyder Fawr and Y Garn, about 8-10 hours depending on speed/fitness. It's a great hike with lots of sporadic grade 1 scrambling along the way. Subbed.
Oh wow, you're brave for having gone down the scree field, but that said, if doing the horseshoe, I imagine you'd need to do it that way so you're not going down Bristly Ridge (I think that's the one people say to only really go up?) Tryfan's North Ride sounds amazing, and petrifying all at the same time. I'd like to try a few more easier scrambles before I try to attempt that one I think, but the horseshoe does sound epic. We met a gentleman on this hike who described where he'd come from that morning and I'm now wondering if he too was doing the horseshoe 🤔 So pleased you liked it enough to want to sub... this has put a huge grin on my face!
Hey! I was looking for something like this because I am mostly recovered from an ankle injury but a bit fragile, and was looking for a hike in snowdonia. Your video here was perfect for both making me very excited, educated, and also giving me a good review of the scree and boulder parts of the path that I'd been worried about. Thank-you so much!
Hi song1of1fire1 - so pleased this has been helpful for you - and pleased to hear your ankle is on the mend allowing you to hike now 🙏 I have a few other videos of hikes in Snowdonia. I'd say this was the most challenging of all the ones I did, Aberglaslyn, Llyn Dinas and Cwm Bychan is stunning and easier. Cnicht is easier, a mountain but easy for a mountain. I also hiked through the quarries down into Llanberis which was relatively easy as far as hikes go - I'd recommend all of these if you're looking for more.
One of my favourites too - possibly my actual favourite! I'd have loved to see Devil's Kitchen in the clouds seeing them rise up like in a steamy kitchen - I bet the trail has a completely different feel to it then. I know Andy would have preferred these conditions from a photography point of view for sure!
FTR - it's pronounced Glidder Vower not four! Noce film, and a iconic walking route. I was hoping you might have had a shot of the gulley next to Bristly ridge as you descend off the top of Fach, as some of the online apps send you that way. I've walked this as a kid a couple of times with my parents in the 70s (before there were steps up devils kitchen) and we followed to same route as you - head east off the summit to intersect the Miners path that then takes you onto bwlch tryfan and into the cym
We'd ummed and aaahed about doing Tryfan at the end but the heat from this day was really getting to us and making the call not to go up there at the fork in the trail was an easy one. Plus when I do get to complete Tryfan, I'd love to come at it from the other side. Sorry for not having footage of Bristly Ridge, my research ahead of this walk put me off going this way as it sounded really dangerous. But given that you did it as a kid... maybe not!
@@WhenAdventureKnox retired in 2004 i was 27 since then iv done a lot of stone walling work next week i start vouluntry work with nort wales wildlife trust happy days
@Dewi Roberts Hi Dewi, that's so cool that you know how to do stone walling and thank you so much for your voluntary work as I know I must have benefitted from your efforts - they are very much appreciated! 🙏
I have been having a few hectic days and just watching this now. Have you seen any sorts of tributes and mentions of Diana, Princess of Wales as you traveled Wales?
Hi Hollybeth, bless you for finding the time to catch up... that means so much ❤ Strangely there wasn't anything that we saw when we were in Wales, but it's the same for other royals and places, e.g. I've never seen anything in Cambridge about William and Catherine. There is a memorial fountain in Hyde Park in London for Princess Diana and just a few weeks ago William and Harry unveiled a new statue in Kensington Palace. I hope your hectic days were for fun reasons!
We were fortunate and were able to avoid it. As you head down from the Cantilever stone, instead of heading north towards Tryfan, which puts you on Bristly Ridge, head East... there's a small lake/tarn on a plateau that you want to head towards and you should soon find the path leading to it. It will feel wrong to head East as it feels natural to get pulled in Tryfans direction and I've seen other UA-camers do this and get lost. It's knowing when/where to make the turn away from heading towards the lake/tarn and into the valley towards Tryfan that confused us, but we found it after a short bit of confusion. I really hope this is helpful for you and please ask away if you have any other questions... I'm just chuffed to know the video is helping someone about to do the same route 🙏
Thanks for the reply,it’s always good to have the heads up before a walk as reading from guides etc aren’t always helpful,will be there next week I’ll soon see
How are you doing mrs Caroline thank you for showing us such magnificent landscapes actually we are as foreigners admire your life style adventures tours travel but because. Iam Arabic lady I traveled to Syria Egypt when iwas teenager with my parents thank god UA-cam channels making us as university students or tourists around world we make friendships with people from different countries. Learn anything we want any time so that would you mind as always iam gathering main information about places you visited to learn new information improve our English language as well here it’s devil kitchen is name to dark black crack which spilt rock of clog Wyny geifr cliff of goat between ybarn glyder fawer the welsh name for devil kitchen
Hi Khatoon, I'm doing very well thank you - I hope you are too 🙏 It's so interesting to hear that you've been to Egypt and Syria when you were younger. 2 countries I've never visited and would very much love to. Its very sad to think it, but I'm sure when I make it to Syria, I won't be able to see everything you were able to 😢 I'm 100% with you, I love how UA-cam is able to link me to new friends across the globe.
Last part of my research is t wll du meaning black hole cwm l d wal was first nature reserve in wales and also popular area with Charles Darwin it’s scenic red rock off nebo scenic loop resembles miniature Bryce Canyon trail is short well maintained easy to hike runs through beautiful forest to observation platform on edge of red rock area called devil kitchen because consists of two hollows on top of each other resembling face with giant man local legends say that native considered cave inhabited by evil cannibalistic spirits with soot on outside marking cooking firiles ihope you have great time bon voyage iam so sorry to be little long stay safe blessed good luck to you your family friends
Ooh I think this research is about a place in Utah (which is a US State I adore) a few hours outside of Salt Lake City. But I had no idea there was a mini Bryce out that way. I visited Bryce back in 2010 and loved it. Don't worry at all about your longer replies, I love reading through them and finding out about what else you've learnt 🙌
Funny you mention this Andy as I've had this discussion recently too and even turned to Google for it. It appears it is an Americanism, and the only excuse I think I have is, I never used to hike when I was a kid. I spent my uni summers doing Camp America (kids summer camp in Upstate New York) and the camp was big into outdoorsy adventured like hiking and overnight canoe trips. I got a taste for it and after camp ended, visited a handful of National Parks like Badlands, Yellowstone and Glacier, where I went off on 'hiking' trails, and from there, I've always just referred to it as hiking! 🤷♀️
You said ‘glider’! Damn! Oh well, you aren’t Welsh. Oh and you pronounced everything else abysmally too! Too much for me, I’m off. You’ll miss me, I know. Not!
I feel like this is partially what this channel has become known for - watch me butcher the pronunciation of things or place names! 🤦♀️ I'm trying to get better. Shame the video didn't want to make you stick around, though if it's the Welsh videos you'd be interested in, I'd hate for you to hear mis-pronunciations in others 🤣
Is this a hike you'd do or are you put off by the scramble, the scree, the boulder fields or just how epic and strenuous it looks? I'd love to know your thoughts.
Great arse. You should feature it more ...it's a Damon sight better than your face!
Nothing wrong with stopping to "enjoy the view". Far better to take your time, than throw yourself at it and end up so knackered the whole experience becomes a horrible trial. You certainly had a lovely day for it. I'm on Anglesey, and there are many days when we can't even see the mainland for cloud!
What a beautiful day for a hike! The lovely weather definitely made the early start worth it. The scrambling across the loose stones and boulders looked tough but the views at the top made up for it. If you don't get a little bit lost on a hike then you're not doing it properly - another fab video! North Wales looks amazing. Hope the legs weren't too sore the next day but at least you were rewarded with an ice cream at the end.
We were so lucky with the weather that week! And I agree, I am ALWAYS getting a little lost, even on the clearest paths and way marked trails, I somehow manage getting lost with such ease! The legs weren't as bad as they were after Ben Nevis the next day and that hike seems to be the yard stick I judge more recent hikes by now! 🤣 So pleased you enjoyed the video!
WOW! What a GORGEOUS area and beautiful hike! Those rocks at the top are insane!
We would absolutely love to hike this 😍 Looks like so much fun (and mega hard) with the scrambling and ladders and totally up our alley! I always speak too soon on hikes too 😂 “this isn’t bad!”…minutes later “just kidding!”
Oh my goodness, you have no idea how happy I was to see this message and know you liked the video/hike enough to comment on it! Personally I much preferred it to Snowdon, even though Snowdon has 'the name'. When you eventually make it to Snowdonia, this would have been be my number 1 recommendation for you guys so stoked I was spot on! ❤️
@@WhenAdventureKnox you make some AMAZING videos! We are always so impressed and they inspire us!
@Adventures of A+K Oh wow, I am grinning from ear to ear hearing you guys say that as it's how I always feel when watching YOUR videos!!! ❤
Weather permitting I'm hoping to go up the Devil's kitchen this weekend then on to y-garn. Looks like fun
Omg I went down the steep path that people warned against going down 😢 it was so scary and I felt I wouldn't make it down. The challenge of that scramble had adrenaline pumped max.
Thanks for taking me on that hike virtually because I can definitely say l will not be able to do it. Wonderful views and rock formations.
A.Perrin you are most welcome. It's one of the things I've always loved myself as a UA-cam viewer getting to virtually experience things you couldn't first hand your self and reading your comment knowing I've been able to do the same for someone else has put a huge smile on my face 😊 ❤
Great video, thanks! I'll be doing the Glyderau next week and watched this for tips. I'm excited now!
So pleased this has been helpful for you. I hope you enjoy the hike as much as we did. We did this almost 2 years ago to the day so vegetation wise it should be very similar.
This is lovely. And wow, Glyder Far is magnificent! Beautiful views all around. Thank you for sharing with us!
We too were blown away by the views... so stunning!! So pleased you enjoyed the video ❤
One of my favourite spots in North Wales, but I'm not really one for scrambling so I stopped at Devil's Kitchen! Maybe one day I'll do the whole hike
Great video and channel -- liked and subscribed!
Thank you, this means a lot! 🙏
I climbed this at the weekend after Watching this video and a few others. Sadly there was dense fog and snow at the top so I didn't get the views and the scree and boulders were made worse due to the weather but what a hike!
Hi Luke, so pleased this video and some others inspired the hike. I bet doing it in December is a completely different experience to the one we had. The idea of hiking that high up with snow is a little scary, but exciting all at the same time!
Great footage; I've never gone up that scree field, been down it about a dozen times and it's a real knee-buster! You should try the Glyderau Horsehoe: Tryfan's North Ridge, Bristly Ridge, Glyder Fach, Glyder Fawr and Y Garn, about 8-10 hours depending on speed/fitness. It's a great hike with lots of sporadic grade 1 scrambling along the way. Subbed.
Oh wow, you're brave for having gone down the scree field, but that said, if doing the horseshoe, I imagine you'd need to do it that way so you're not going down Bristly Ridge (I think that's the one people say to only really go up?) Tryfan's North Ride sounds amazing, and petrifying all at the same time. I'd like to try a few more easier scrambles before I try to attempt that one I think, but the horseshoe does sound epic. We met a gentleman on this hike who described where he'd come from that morning and I'm now wondering if he too was doing the horseshoe 🤔 So pleased you liked it enough to want to sub... this has put a huge grin on my face!
Beautiful shots!
Thank you Nick and Rachel - it's always easier when mother nature has already done a lot of the hard work in making it look beautiful 😍❤
Hey! I was looking for something like this because I am mostly recovered from an ankle injury but a bit fragile, and was looking for a hike in snowdonia. Your video here was perfect for both making me very excited, educated, and also giving me a good review of the scree and boulder parts of the path that I'd been worried about. Thank-you so much!
Hi song1of1fire1 - so pleased this has been helpful for you - and pleased to hear your ankle is on the mend allowing you to hike now 🙏 I have a few other videos of hikes in Snowdonia. I'd say this was the most challenging of all the ones I did, Aberglaslyn, Llyn Dinas and Cwm Bychan is stunning and easier. Cnicht is easier, a mountain but easy for a mountain. I also hiked through the quarries down into Llanberis which was relatively easy as far as hikes go - I'd recommend all of these if you're looking for more.
One of my favorite snowdonia hikes for sure 🤙🏽
Excellent video! We actually prefer this hike when it’s all moody and foggy
One of my favourites too - possibly my actual favourite! I'd have loved to see Devil's Kitchen in the clouds seeing them rise up like in a steamy kitchen - I bet the trail has a completely different feel to it then. I know Andy would have preferred these conditions from a photography point of view for sure!
@@WhenAdventureKnox it was so cool.. we climbed up into the clouds, and it was haunting feeling. Then came out to the lake up top with some sun 🥰
Ey up. Thanks for this, very informative *new subscriber 🙂👍
Ey up to you too 🙌 So pleased you found the video informative... so much so that you wanted to subscribe. Welcome aboard!
FTR - it's pronounced Glidder Vower not four! Noce film, and a iconic walking route. I was hoping you might have had a shot of the gulley next to Bristly ridge as you descend off the top of Fach, as some of the online apps send you that way. I've walked this as a kid a couple of times with my parents in the 70s (before there were steps up devils kitchen) and we followed to same route as you - head east off the summit to intersect the Miners path that then takes you onto bwlch tryfan and into the cym
We'd ummed and aaahed about doing Tryfan at the end but the heat from this day was really getting to us and making the call not to go up there at the fork in the trail was an easy one. Plus when I do get to complete Tryfan, I'd love to come at it from the other side. Sorry for not having footage of Bristly Ridge, my research ahead of this walk put me off going this way as it sounded really dangerous. But given that you did it as a kid... maybe not!
Brings back memories i used to be a upland footpath worker for national trust in the surounding area beutifull place 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Oh wow, what a stunning 'workplace' you had! Do you still do something similar, had a complete career change, retired or something else?
@@WhenAdventureKnox retired in 2004 i was 27 since then iv done a lot of stone walling work next week i start vouluntry work with nort wales wildlife trust happy days
@Dewi Roberts Hi Dewi, that's so cool that you know how to do stone walling and thank you so much for your voluntary work as I know I must have benefitted from your efforts - they are very much appreciated! 🙏
definitely some of the best scenery in britain... outside scotland. wait- this more than matches scotland. the 1981 film dragonslayer was filmed here!
I have been having a few hectic days and just watching this now. Have you seen any sorts of tributes and mentions of Diana, Princess of Wales as you traveled Wales?
Hi Hollybeth, bless you for finding the time to catch up... that means so much ❤ Strangely there wasn't anything that we saw when we were in Wales, but it's the same for other royals and places, e.g. I've never seen anything in Cambridge about William and Catherine. There is a memorial fountain in Hyde Park in London for Princess Diana and just a few weeks ago William and Harry unveiled a new statue in Kensington Palace. I hope your hectic days were for fun reasons!
Did you have to use bristly ridge for your descent as we’re looking to do the route the same as you have ?
We were fortunate and were able to avoid it. As you head down from the Cantilever stone, instead of heading north towards Tryfan, which puts you on Bristly Ridge, head East... there's a small lake/tarn on a plateau that you want to head towards and you should soon find the path leading to it. It will feel wrong to head East as it feels natural to get pulled in Tryfans direction and I've seen other UA-camers do this and get lost. It's knowing when/where to make the turn away from heading towards the lake/tarn and into the valley towards Tryfan that confused us, but we found it after a short bit of confusion. I really hope this is helpful for you and please ask away if you have any other questions... I'm just chuffed to know the video is helping someone about to do the same route 🙏
Thanks for the reply,it’s always good to have the heads up before a walk as reading from guides etc aren’t always helpful,will be there next week I’ll soon see
How are you doing mrs Caroline thank you for showing us such magnificent landscapes actually we are as foreigners admire your life style adventures tours travel but because. Iam Arabic lady I traveled to Syria Egypt when iwas teenager with my parents thank god UA-cam channels making us as university students or tourists around world we make friendships with people from different countries. Learn anything we want any time so that would you mind as always iam gathering main information about places you visited to learn new information improve our English language as well here it’s devil kitchen is name to dark black crack which spilt rock of clog Wyny geifr cliff of goat between ybarn glyder fawer the welsh name for devil kitchen
Hi Khatoon, I'm doing very well thank you - I hope you are too 🙏 It's so interesting to hear that you've been to Egypt and Syria when you were younger. 2 countries I've never visited and would very much love to. Its very sad to think it, but I'm sure when I make it to Syria, I won't be able to see everything you were able to 😢 I'm 100% with you, I love how UA-cam is able to link me to new friends across the globe.
Last part of my research is t wll du meaning black hole cwm l d wal was first nature reserve in wales and also popular area with Charles Darwin it’s scenic red rock off nebo scenic loop resembles miniature Bryce Canyon trail is short well maintained easy to hike runs through beautiful forest to observation platform on edge of red rock area called devil kitchen because consists of two hollows on top of each other resembling face with giant man local legends say that native considered cave inhabited by evil cannibalistic spirits with soot on outside marking cooking firiles ihope you have great time bon voyage iam so sorry to be little long stay safe blessed good luck to you your family friends
Ooh I think this research is about a place in Utah (which is a US State I adore) a few hours outside of Salt Lake City. But I had no idea there was a mini Bryce out that way. I visited Bryce back in 2010 and loved it. Don't worry at all about your longer replies, I love reading through them and finding out about what else you've learnt 🙌
Interesting (mildly!) how 'hike' has become so prevalent in recent years, rather than walk. An Americanism?
Funny you mention this Andy as I've had this discussion recently too and even turned to Google for it. It appears it is an Americanism, and the only excuse I think I have is, I never used to hike when I was a kid. I spent my uni summers doing Camp America (kids summer camp in Upstate New York) and the camp was big into outdoorsy adventured like hiking and overnight canoe trips. I got a taste for it and after camp ended, visited a handful of National Parks like Badlands, Yellowstone and Glacier, where I went off on 'hiking' trails, and from there, I've always just referred to it as hiking! 🤷♀️
Its Glyderau not Glyders.
You said ‘glider’! Damn! Oh well, you aren’t Welsh. Oh and you pronounced everything else abysmally too! Too much for me, I’m off. You’ll miss me, I know. Not!
I feel like this is partially what this channel has become known for - watch me butcher the pronunciation of things or place names! 🤦♀️ I'm trying to get better. Shame the video didn't want to make you stick around, though if it's the Welsh videos you'd be interested in, I'd hate for you to hear mis-pronunciations in others 🤣
@@WhenAdventureKnox ok, point taken. I’ll try again. Thank you.