Moel Siabod

        Salam Ummi, Abi, family and everybody. Yesterday we hiked to a mountain called Moel Siabod (pronounced: moyl shabbodd) (872 m/2861 feet), then scrambled up the south-east ridge, which was really fun alhamdulillah and not that scary.

       It took us some time to hike to the ridge, and I think the wind was wet as we were going up the ridge itself, but this time alhamdulillah instead of always looking down and feeling high up and like a glass jar on an edge and always about to fall off I was just looking up along the ridge and thinking of how to climb it and it was fun alhamdulillah, and the top didn't seem too high.

     The walk off the top was in a really hard wet hail-ly wind, and it seemed like an hour before we descended off the side, and during the hail someone needed the bathroom, so everyone else huddled up while waiting in a cute circle they called a penguin circle, and whoever wants to warm up bunches up in the middle; tough guys on the outside. 

    Anyway it rained most of the way, which was still quite fun alhamdulillhah, and we climbed right out of the rain into the bus, but it wasn't raining inside the bus, so I could pull my hood off, and altogether it was around 6-7 hours hike alhamdulillah. Khadijah called me on the way there, so it felt a bit like she was with me on the hike. And subhanAllah, when you even see just a tiny hill-mountain like this, and the grass and the hail and the big rocks and the cold and the sun and the people talking and walking about in Allah's earth you think of the ayat (verses) in surat At-Tur:

( 35 )   أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ

( 36 ) أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ ۚ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ

( 35 )   Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

( 36 )   Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

Translation of meaning: English-sahih, http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/

    

From the bus-I think we're entering Snowdonia

Still from the bus man-beautiful subhanAllah!

This is Tryfan-I posted about it a few posts back.

Now we're walking in the woods.

I think that's Moel Siabod 

I think it started hailing at this precise moment.

That's behind us!

And that's ahead! but we didn't climb this side of Moel Siabod, we skirted round to the left.

A lake with grass and plants around it. (No joke)

Now that's behind us.

and that's ahead! funny the same mountain is always ahead of us.

Then we stopped here for our first lunch

the south-east ridge! so we stopped at its base to the left of the photo for our 2nd lunch (need fuel man), then up we went.

In the roly-poly fields walking out. You might recognise the mountain facing us from the Tryfan hike. We came out quite close to Tryfan.

Ok salam then. I just wish I was hiking this with Abi and my brothers. (And Ummi and my sisters if they would want to come). And Zaid, Zak and Smily. One day inshAllah.