Hey it\u2019s Dr. Dumbledore Goodbourn and Will Scarlett here and we\u2019re talking about what we did on Friday. We started off getting ready to go and climb Mount Tryfan. We decided to leave the centre earlier than usual because we wanted to get the most out of the day (and we didn\u2019t want to be the last back \u2013 again.)<\/p>\n
After a driving to the car park, we set off and started our ascent. This mountain wasn\u2019t as hard as Snowdon. We started up a normal, but boggy path which wasn\u2019t particularly difficult. After a while the climb started to get steeper, but still manageable. We continued climbing for about an hour until we had a break, and at this time Greg realised that he put too much orange juice in so it wasn\u2019t diluted enough. He wanted to get the water from the lake and the streams that ran through the mountain.<\/p>\n
Even though the first part wasn\u2019t difficult, we were still slightly tired, and we only about halfway up the mountain. Because of this, Mr Bright White thought of an idea similar to Tour De France, where the person in front would walk 50 steps and then head to the back, and the person behind them would do the same thing. At the same time, I (Dr Goodbourn) fell over (as usual) and pulled on Will Scarlett\u2019s bag to get up. Because she wasn\u2019t \u201cready,\u201d I pulled her down and we fell onto either side of the rock.<\/p>\n
We continued onwards, and we didn\u2019t expect to fall over so much. Jess Combe was the first victim, where she fell into a bog and got COVERED in mud. Luckily Mr. White was there to take a photo of her (and it was luckily she didn\u2019t hurt herself.) Generally we all slipped over. It didn\u2019t help that it was starting to rain, so the rocks were getting slippery which would cause a lot of us to fall over later on.<\/p>\n
Our slow but steady pace meant that we didn\u2019t have to rest so much, which spurred us on to finish the mountain. Given our slow pace, you would expect that we wouldn\u2019t fall often. That theory is WRONG, especially for Dr. Goodbourn, who slipped over MANY times. After about 2-3 hours of climbing, we reached the summit of Tryfan, where we sat down and ate our well deserved lunch in the pouring rain. We had a photo at the summit and we continued on.<\/p>\n
Now that it had been raining for quite a while, the rocks were slippery which meant that we would be more likely to slip. It didn\u2019t help that the route downwards was quite steep so we were even more likely to fall, which made our descent even more fun. The first part of our descent was climbing down rocks, which was like our ascent. We slipped but didn\u2019t fall too much. After about an hour, we reached a man-made pathway which was still quite slippery and you were prone to fall. Us two were probably the two people who fell the most, but that was when we saw one of us fall, we saw the other person and started laughing at them and fell ourselves. We had a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, because I (Dr. Goodbourn) fell and went to grab Will Scarlett\u2019s bag and fell over onto the path \u2013 again.<\/p>\n
At this time Jez (our instructor) went to grab the mini-bus from the car park because he knew we didn\u2019t want to walk ALL the way back there again. The man-made path ended, so instead of rocks you could slip over, there was very boggy and muddy grass \u2013 which you could slip over. We wanted to make up time which we lost on walking down the path so slowly by jogging. We were lightly jogging and Dr. Goodbourn slipped on the mud. This caused Mr. White to turn around to see who slipped and fell over himself. Too bad we didn\u2019t have a camera to capture the moment. We then generally got down okay, even though we did slip a few times and we put our feet in foot deep mud pits.<\/p>\n
We wanted to show our appreciation for Jez by buying him a postcard from the Tuck Shop. We wrote on it and made it look nice. What we didn\u2019t realise was that Suzannah had it in her bag the whole way up Tryfan, so by the time we realised it was soaked and a part of it was missing. Luckily, Mr. White had a spare postcard, so we used that instead. We still gave Jez both postcards though, and I think he appreciated them both as much as each other.<\/p>\n
Overall we had a great day, and we had a great week. We would like to thank everyone who organised this trip.<\/p>\n
By Daniel \u2018Dr Dumbledore\u2019 Goodbourn and Scarlett \u2018Will Scarlett\u2019 Eddy<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t