A very Exped Christmas

The term had nearly ended, and it being Christmas it was decided that we needed to do something different and expedy to celebrate. Thus, a plan to walk up Cadair Idris and cook a Christmas meal was concocted.

So, on the lovely Wet, windy and occasionally hailing 11th December we met at the bus station. The sensible ones had looked out of the window at 6am that morning saw the weather and decided it was a much better idea to stay in bed, and the rest had had a little bit too much fun the night before and where still in bed hung-over. So this left five of us, from now on known as the hard core ones!!!

There only being the five of us we had to make the first ascent of the day... up Penglais hill to get Harriet’s car.
A short (ish) drive later, we arrived at the bottom of Cadair and the lovely steps which we all love so much! After much effort, we arrived at Llyn Cau and the decision to go up the scree at the back was made.

When we eventually made it to the summit, we started cooking in the shelter, much to the amusement of the three other people that where there already. On the menu today: Roast chicken with mash potatoes, mixed veg and gravy, all cooked from fresh on the top of a mountain, (except the chicken we really didn’t want food poisoning). And for dessert: Christmas pudding, to be eaten with forks with three prongs as we’re sophisticated like that.

After dinner, an attempt at washing up was made and a leisurely stroll, as is traditional on Christmas day, was undertaken. During this stroll the weather made a nice turn for the worse when it started to rain once more and then the hail and snow started... yay!!! After battling through the storms and many slips from most and attempts on the presidents life we made it back to the car.