A group of seven Wild Walkers had a three-night stay at the Coetmormill bunkhouse near Bethesda in North Wales. It was a fairly mixed group ability-wise, so there ended up being two or three parties doing different things each day.
We travelled up on the Monday in three cars and met at Capel Curig for an afternoon walk to Crimpiau, before driving to Coetmormill and settling in. Nigel, Sheila and Dick each brought a pre-prepared main course meal for the three evenings we were there, so the rest of us had a fairly easy time just helping and washing up.
On Tuesday we drove about 15 minutes to Ogwen Cottage, and walked up to Llyn Idwal and the Devil’s Kitchen. Some then chose a lower level route, while others continued up the stepped path through the crags and then along the top of he ridge to Y Garn. Descent was quite slow and steep, and ended through a very narrow gorge at the bottom.
Wednesday most of us drove to Beddgelert and did a relatively low-level circuit along the valley and Llyn Dinas, over into Blaen Nanmor, and then down that valley to Nantmor. From there we continued along a riverside path up the Pass of Aberglaslyn gorge, and finally across the water meadows back to Beddgelert.
Thursday was the departure from Coetmormill and the journey home, though some of us first took a walk along the disused railway from Bangor which served the Penrhyn slate quarries just outside Bethesda, and passes just outside the mill.
