Route 42 Seniors’ Ridge 1*
Route 43 Seniors’ Gully 1-*
Route 44 Direct Approach to Seniors’ Ridge 2*
Route 45 Idwal Staircase and Continuation 2+***
Route 46 North West Face Route (aka Idwal Buttress) 2**
Route 47 Bryant’s Gully (aka False Bryant’s Gully or Nant Ettws) 2+*** ♠
Route 48 Esgair Felen Direct 2+* ♠
Y Garn
Route 49 Devil’s Kitchen and the Sheep Walk 3S*** or 1-*
Route 50 East Ridge 2**
Foel Goch
Route 51 South Arête 1+*
Route 52 Needle’s Eye Arête 3*
Route 53 Yr Esgair 3S*
Carnedd y Filiast
Route 54 The Ridge (aka Atlantic Ridge) 2+**
Route 55 The Snowdon Horseshoe 1*** S
Crib Goch
Route 56 East Ridge 1* S
Route 57 North Ridge 1*
Route 58 Jammed Boulder Gully 3S**
Route 59 Traverse of Crib Goch 1*** S
Crib y Ddysgl (Garnedd Ugain)
Route 60 Crib y Ddysgl 1** S
Route 61 Cwm Glas Mawr Approach 1+* or 3S*
Route 62 Clogwyn y Person Arête (including Parson’s Nose options) 3*** or 3S***
Route 63 Cwm Glas Ridge 1-*
Route 64 Llechog Buttress 2**
Route 65 Llechog Ridge 2-*
Route 66 Eastern Terrace of Clogwyn Du’r Arddu 1+**
Route 67 Western Terrace of Clogwyn Du’r Arddu 3*
Snowdon
Route 68 Tregalan Couloir 2*
Route 69 Y Gribin and the East Ridge 1**
Lliwedd
Route 70 Traverse of Lliwedd 1** S
Route 71 West Peak via Bilberry Terrace 3S***
Route 72 Nantlle Ridge 1-***
Craig Cwm Silyn
Route 73 Craig Fawr Rib (aka LMH) 3**
Mynydd Mawr
Route 74 Sentries’ Ridge and Continuation 3-***
Route 75 Bear Buttress 3S*
The Moelwyns
Route 76 Moel Siabod Ridge Circuit (including Daear Ddu Ridge) 1-***
The Rhinogs
Route 77 South Face of Rhinog Fawr 2-*
Route 78 South Ridge Variant, Rhinog Fach (aka Hywel Ridge) 3-**
Cadair Idris
Route 79 Cyfrwy Arête (including Table Direct option) 3*** or 3S***
Conwy
Route 80 Penmaenbach Arête 1+**
Appendix A Summary of routes in grade order
Appendix B Longer combination ideas
Superb positions on Glyder Fach’s East Gully Ridge with Tryfan beyond (Route 34)
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
A summer’s evening on Tryfan’s South Ridge (Route 29)
What criteria should be used to define a scramble? General agreement could be reached on the lower limit – that we must also expect to use our hands on the rock – but fixing the upper limit is always going to be controversial. My own interpretation, reflected in the cut-off point for this guide, is that the technical interest of the climbing (which in any case ought not to exceed Moderate or short passages of Difficult standard in the rock climbing classification) must be superseded by the wider interests of scenery, position and atmosphere. In other words, seeking out difficulty for its own sake, without regard to line or position on the mountain, is not scrambling but rock climbing.
Since its first publication in 1980, Scrambles in Snowdonia has served thousands
