Seizing the moment - Tryfan
“The test is negative…”, came the news down the phone. We’d presumed the result of the Covid test wouldn’t come back in time and we’d already cancelled the trip. But here was the all-clear to go for a proper weekend’s climbing for the first time in a year and despite not having packed or sorted gear out, we went from dropping our begrudged DIY and home plans to hitting the road in an hour. Typically polished hold on Milestone Buttress We’d heard the horror stories about parking in Wales but some of the classic Ogwen routes really appealed so we bagged the parking spot on the Friday evening and shared Milestone car park with a mixture of desperate adventurers and a stag-do that probably wasn’t allowed to visit Blackpool due to local restrictions, making do with hired camper vans instead. Enjoying a leisurely breakfast, we observed the busy car parks and laybys filling up with increasingly stressed and rule-stretching enthusiasts. It was easy to agree with some of the news articles about