Tuesday 23 March 2010

Cnicht

It is a mountain that has fascinated me throughout my life. It's neither very high, nor remote, nor hard to climb - I can be up and down in just over an hour, but it gives the lie to the idea that a mountain cannot be a mountain unless it is over 3000' or 1000m tall [or whatever arbitrary height you determine]. Some even call it the Welsh Matterhorn; although that seems too ambitious and superlative even for me. Yet Cnicht is without doubt spectacular. It's a great climb; the gentle grass ridge, the more exposed rocky one and the final scramble to the summit from which you can see amazing views down to Porthmadoc, the Traeth Mawr and Moel y Gest; and turning away from the sea over to the distant heights of Snowdon and up to the dark ridge of Moelwyn. Yet alongside climbing it I also love painting and photographing it and have down so many times. Here are a few of the paintings and a sketch [photos will come in a seperate post].




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