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.

Bangor

my room

Salam everybody, Ummi and my sisters and brothers have been wanting to see where exactly I had landed...bismillah, here goes:

the corridor

kitchen

views from the kitchen and snowy mountains!

down the stairs..

out the submarine doors

the 1990's (according to Wikipedia) accommodation style I live in

round the back

Maes Glas gym

my dorms from the back 

leaving accommodation backwards

nice idyllic American outdoor scene

the newer accommodations

the city gates

down to Morrisons

different view

to the masjid and train station

a left turn takes you along this road, the high street is at the tree junction all the way down (pretty funny, hey)

a left takes you onto this quiet end of the high street

the masjid is the painted house on the right and both houses gardens I think

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parking space, and you can see most of the uni buildings I study at in the background

I think the sign is 23 years old, the one they put up  when they built the masjid

teacher's corner

now let me take you back up to Morrisons

from where we go to Main Arts, which is the main university building, and if we enter the square..

we see this, and those 3 doors lead to PJ Hall, a big grand thing..

to your right is the Main Arts library

the inspiring extension

round the back of Main Arts

and the town of Bangor reveals itself................

Bangor is bigger than this, but I think this is the Northern limit (don't rely on my sense of the poles) as Snowdonia is beyond

I think you can see the sea looking left

I can remember what school this is (University schools I mean)

School of Law..no it is bigger..behind

School of Management

Weee! back to Morrisons to go see my school

down Glanrafon Hill

at the bottom of the hill, you see that to your right. The tall building is the Chemistry tower.

and Main Arts to your left

and this random gate

I told you you can see it from the bottom of the hill

and that's straight ahead of you, to the high street (way to the left of where the masjid is)

we want to turn right though onto Deiniol Road

how do you describe this buliding (Thoday) ?

across the road is the Deiniol library, where most of the science books are, so it's where I go

along the same side as Thoday is Memmorial

then a big green square

and this is my school on the left-School of Biological Sciences
(go ahead...but I like it hehe

they mashed up the Bangor City Football Club grounds, there's an ASDA coming in inshAllah. See the masjid in the background?

sorry, let me take you back to Morrisons. We could from Deiniol Road to the train station, but I don't want to confuse you.....so we go straight down this road

that's a train station

that is in fact part of the same train station

so to your right is this

and to your left is that...let's stroll ahead

you feel a sense of loneliness and travel at the station, and you forget everything about Bangor...(these dots should continue the dreamy sense of the words)

see, the station is behind me and this Deiniol Road keeping left

the way home from Morrisons

It didn't take me whole day to walk that stretch of road...it's just that..you know..I took the pictures at different times

welcome home Isa

Sorry, I'll subtitle the photos tomorrow or the day after inshAllah. I am totally knocked out. Salam.


P.S. Alhamdulillah done..and Salams everyone and family