Wrinkled Tower Route, Grade III Scramble on Tryfan, Snowdonia 

Brilliant - I climbed Tryfan over a dozen times as a teenager, and today 30 years on I returned for the first time to The Ogwen Valley. I'll aim to climb the North Ridge in August.

Great detail to the route, and nicely narrated - thanks!

Another great video. Really enjoying your recent uploads.

Such a great video! Wales at its finest. Keep them coming please. :-)

Lovely video enjoyed watching every single second...

Really enjoyed this.

Great video! Well done!

What a brilliant video Paul. If Steve Ashton could have made a video guide to his routes then I think he would have aspired to this. The route itself looks absolutely mouthwatering. The awkward chimney looked the hardest bit to me with those jammed blocks and undercling holds. Can't wait to sample it myself. What a nice finishing position too with the cannon stone just over to the left.

Fantastic video really enjoyed it

I respect and admire all your rock climbing viewers and your awesome videos. However, I simply couldn't do this as it scares me just watching - woh! that exposure dazzles me too much 😅 Thanks again.

Superb video as always 👍 really hoping you make more on Scrambling.

Absolutely brilliant video!

Nice work. There's certainly a few sections there that I'd rope up for these days!

Thanks again for this great video. I climbed the route on Sunday evening although I dodged the chimney section which looks a bit desperate. I enjoyed it - the slabs at the start and the end and the flake pitch are great. Certainly the most helpful bit was to be able to identify the 'V-Cleft' and pull back up onto the ridge crest after dodging the chimney.

Looks like a great day out 👍🏼

Wow. Always nice to find an "outdoors" channel where not only does the guy know his technical stuff re the climbing etc but also knows how to put a film together! I do some outdoor films myself, more overview style than technical training like yours, just posted a Tryfan one actually, which is why yours came up in my feed I guess! So I really appreciate the time and effort you've taken to set up some of these shots rather than doing what most do and stick the camera on their head and give viewers 45 minutes of motion sickness. Plus you've given me a great new route up Tryfan. Done it 8 or 9 times and always seem to end up on the North Ridge. Really good job man...subscribed!

After reading about this route in the new Rockfax book by Mark Reeves your video was really informative, thanks

Wish I had the balls to do this sort of stuff. Looking at learning some mountaineering when lockdown is over, but not sure I could ever do this without a rope. Well done on the video production too. Great filming.

Thanks

Great footage and a route that takes it a little bit close to the edge for me.

Superb

I had to watch this and I'm mesmerised, but think I've dehydrated more through my palms than I did whilst out on my 10k earlier. The small part of me that was thinking 'hmm, maybe..' before I watched it has now been very much been quashed!!

@Beyond The Trail Great vid I am going to try this scramble this year. Interested to know what shoes you had on and how they performed Thank you

Well done. I have no idea how you people find the courage to do that kind of thing.

Great video! Sorry I couldn’t see properly so I just wanted to double check, what sort of shoes would you wear for this?

Great video, fascinating your thought process how to approach it. Did north face last year but ended up the last half scrambling up the east face by mistake. Apparantly a harder way up!! Was my first scramble but loved it. How would that compare to bristly ridge for difficulty? Thanks. Keep up the good work

Great video. I've done some easy multipitch trad climbing, lots of difficult indoor climbing, and lots of big hikes (mostly in the UK, but quite a bit in the Alps). I've never really done much scrbcrambling however (other than easy bits on a trad route, or hard bits on a hike, but nothing like this). I think I'm finding the grey area between being secure on a rope and hiking a little, what's the word, vulnerable I suppose. Do you think a route like this would work well with two moving together with say 15m of rope with a bunch of slings and a half rack when things get a little tricky. Maybe a bit overkill, but would rather over do it than under do it.

Great video thanks, did you start doing Grade 3s roped up and then go from there?

Hi was that you I was talking to today ? I was coming down bristley with a black lad and a dog 🐕. . If so I watch your videos . They're great.

What would you say is the best route up tryfen to take as a beginner?

Yeah that looks scary as hell.

How many litres is that rucksack and what do you have packed for a solo scramble?

Did it in the pouring rain this saturday for the first. The descent was fucking scary. Theres parts you get down when its wet and slimy where you cant go back up. Worst thing in the world when theres a12ft drop on to angled slimy stone. Am i right in saying wet stone completely changes things ?

How do you get down from That? 😳

I’m sure all the people who do this have a fear of heights gene missing!!!.....I find it daunting enough getting up a ladder to clean out my gutters!!

Thanks