A Devastating Loss Up Crib Goch Ridge

45 minutes into my second attempt to run the Welsh 3000s in under 10 hours I was hit by a devastating loss along the Crib Goch ridge.
I like to think that there was a guy at the bottom of the rock face, desperate for a drink.
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[@ukguy]

So you're the one that dropped that bottle on my head! LOL

[@BraveDave]

The cloud was nowhere near as thick as the last time I attempted the 3000s. But yeah, it certainly gives Crib Goch a surreal atmosphere when it's like that!

[@GBPaddling]

£75 fine for dropping litter, lol.

[@TheVizzle]

Hilarious man. I mean....it probably didn't feel funny at the time, but.... "shit".

[@BraveDave]

+The Vizzle. Haha, yes. It was a bit annoying at the time, especially with so far ahead of me still to run and every calorie counting :P

[@BraveDave]

Hi Zhelyo! Thanks for that tip! I'm going to have another go in a few months and I'm going to go the way you've suggested because avoiding an extra 500m over scree would speed things up quite a bit I reckon (plus it'd take less energy). The only downside is that Crib Goch looks ace on camera so it would be a shame to miss getting the footage, especially if it's clear. Oh well, a small sacrifce to make for a faster time :)

[@rickeeling]

Up on the Arans last year and my bag opened its self. Stopped to get some much needed water, NO BOTTLE. In fact no nothing. Followed the route back for over a mile found the bottle, not before also finding my sandwiches, coffee, waterproofs, first aid kit and fleece. Doh.

[@werecanadian2]

Be careful up there mate! Now you gotta pack out a bottle for every foot down from that elevation!

[@csn583]

Better than jumping impulsively after it and watching yourself topple down! I've counterintuitively trained myself to react more slowly in such situations (e.g., don't snatch the moto or bike front brakes). Maybe sometimes I miss a turn I notice too late, but I also don't get rear ended.

[@gazgolfer100]

that was unlucky haha. that cloud looked incredibly thick, it must have been hard going

[@BraveDave]

Thanks, Dosed! Haha, glad you didn't lose your SD card. That would be much worse than a bottle of Lucozade. The resolution of the video on KZbin isn't very good so you can't see how impressively high it actually launched by the third bounce! I just hope it didn't hit anyone :P

[@RMJ1984]

And now we know where the litter comes from, haha :P This was hilarious, but man that has to suck, and of course the damn thing has to fall all the way down..

[@doanchi1]

Good one Dave, that knife edge just scarred my wife

[@mizofan]

It can be very cold and foggy even in mid summer round those higher parts- looks all the more tricky on Crib Goch.

[@BraveDave]

It was a bottle of Lucozade. 350 calories I could have done with but oh well :P Hope it didn't hit anyone at the bottom!

[@Zhelyo]

Awesome video, mate! Small tip on speed if you're going for the Welsh 3000s - rather than doing the full Crib Goch ridge, when you come down from Garnedd Ugain, do the pinnacles and then get the crib goch summit which is just after the pinnacles. Then you reverse the pinnacles and you come down from the col between Garnedd Ugain and Crib Goch. It's a grassy ground which is approximately 500 meters shorter than doing the full Crib Goch and the North Ridge of CG, which is scrambly and has scree

[@bigawdays5724]

If that was me, I’ll give up, because of I’ll fear for my energy index.

[@J90JAM]

Couldn't imagine walking Crib Goch in perfect weather, never mind trying to run it in fog.

[@BraveDave]

Well, fog doesn't really make any difference to how easy or hard Crib Goch is. It's whether the rock is wet or not which counts! Also this video is over 8 years old. I've been up there in much, much more extreme conditions than this since then :P

[@barrycrump6189]

Don't worry, it is not as bad as his videos make out - his lens gives a very false impression of just how steep and narrow it is. I have walked Crib Goch six times and it gets easier each time that you do it. Novice walkers should drop down to onside if it gets too hairy for them - it is much easy that way than keeping to the ridge all the time. I have seen families with their young children walking the Crib Goch - with the youngest being a 12-year-old girl and they weren't having any trouble at all - in fact all were very relaxed.

[@BraveDave]

I wasn't expecting it either :P

[@jones1068]

I don't think he will be seeing that bottle again.

[@brendanhanley3118]

Why use a lens that makes the ridge look worse than it is?

[@BraveDave]

Because that's the lens the GoPro has.

[@alison__16]

RIP Mr Luco Zade. I'm sure you were missed 😜

[@wankerooney1]

Cool Video thanks for sharing.

[@ivytwirtg3024]

Oh dear.......you sounded so desperately annoyed! I understand......though not ever had to carry such supplies for a 10 hour trot......I like my camel bak ... brill vids btw.

[@BraveDave]

+Ivytwirt G I was more bemused than annoyed, like "Damn it! Well that's not good, is it!" :P

[@Graahk]

was that your bottle of water or a flashlight? cool video, looks abit scary

[@DOSEDcoUK]

harsh! i was changing the SD card on my camera on sharp edge once and the spring mechanism fired it out some way.. luckily landed back on some rocks. nothing reminds you of your precarious position up there like watching something you thought was safely stored fall into the abyss. great video :)

[@BraveDave]

Scarred or scared? The extra R makes a big difference :P

[@Camberwell86]

THIS HIT HARD BECAUSE THAT WAS THE *ORIGINAL* APPLE LUCOZADE WHICH WAS MY FAVOURITE EVER :'( I almost lived on it at this point (2012) doing nights in Tesco. They've brought out "Apple Blast" but it's the half-fat shit these days and it just never tastes the same (or provides the energy) :'( I'm not even joking I feel like I've just dropped my favourite pint glass or something :'( do you think it will still be down there at the bottom lmao

[@edzporn]

It’s pinnacle ridge . Grib Goch is the peak

[@BraveDave]

Isn't Pinnacle Ridge in the Lake District? 🤔

[@edzporn]

They’ve probably got one as well but the one you were on leads to the Piinnacles . I enjoy your vids and have done the majority of the scrambles you’ve featured. . I’m 75 now and it’s nice to see you enjoying the best playground ..stay safe

[@BraveDave]

@@edzporn Thanks Eddie! I hope that one day I'm 75 and able to look back at all the great walks and scrambles I've done too :)

[@Crazed-oi3bs]

almost fell off the ridge catching the mouthpiece of my camelbak, fun times😅

[@patrickmurphy5842]

fuck me Dave i came across this by accident. Hawkman.

[@BraveDave]

Haha, hey Hawkman! An MTL original :) You can't help but cross my paths on this ol' Internet ;)

[@carlpalmer8214]

And there was 10 green bottles that accidently fell and no more bottles.........

[@callumglass]

:') hahah. I was not expecting that lmao. "shit". "shit". "shit".

[@welshnathan]

Gnarly!

[@barrycrump6189]

I hope you went back to retrieve that piece of litter?

[@BraveDave]

Err, no, Barry. I didn't come back and search the entire south face of Crib Goch for a Lucozade bottle. I did however find another Lucozade bottle on another part of the mountain and pick that up. Thus the balance was restored ;)

[@MrCW1979]

@@BraveDave I knew you couldn't resist answering that one 🤣

[@redzisan]

Lemon lucozade?

[@BraveDave]

Well, it was 9 years ago, so I don't remember :P

[@darrendavis7613]

I hope you picked that up after you got back down lol

[@geo.harris]

I went up in same weather few weeks back! Need to do it again it's so good. Love the video! Check out my climb up Crib Goch in some horrible weather on my channel!

[@TimothyMcGawUK]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@malcolmbird9928]

Lost my bottle on Crib Goch.

[@affalaffaa]

Fair play for doing it in that mist but i reckon you'd have been more pissed off if it were a desert

[@kingsleyknapp8217]

rip

[@AmurTiger]

Looks like you're training to become a Knee Knacker there.

[@BraveDave]

+AmurTiger Hah, I just Googled "Knee Knacker". A Canadian ultra-run! Well actually I could be training for it here because the Welsh 3000s is 26 miles of mountains, plus a load more at either end. And funnily enough I only managed half of it on this run because I knackered a knee :P No kidding!

[@AmurTiger]

Brave Dave I picked the run knowingly, I knew a few runners who did that trip. I know the trail conditions are likely to be less technical, elevation and distance seem like the same ballpark. Certainly would be a good thing to participate in if you ever found yourself on the wet coast. :)

[@EggnogonthebogProductions]

Run after it...

[@jones1068]

I don't think he's called spiderman 😁

[@EggnogonthebogProductions]

@@jones1068 😂🤣😂

[@Jek_nintendo]

I live like 5 mins away

[@rickeeling]

oh btw, 2012. Did You tube even exist then?

[@thomashardbattle4287]

Evidentally so

[@ephebo2024]

like since, 2005

[@ywiwar7872]

why?

[@TheKopakah]

Why what?

[@drubber007]

You'll never know

[@dylanmorgan2752]

+drubber77 guess we won’t then

[@bypass666666]

Hahaaa

[@LevelUpTrivia1]

aint you worried about falling bro ,,you got some balls mind

[@BraveDave]

My confidence outweighs my worries ;)

[@michaeljamesparkinson]

I was expecting you to fall off .... ;)

[@traceyingham8303]

Gosh you would have thought you had lost your boots not a drink. ( it's not Everest why do you need an energy drink lol) anyway there's a cafe up ahead.

[@BraveDave]

+Tracey Ingham Thanks for letting me know what's at the top of Snowdon, Tracey. I had no idea. I've only climbed it about 30 times ;) Also, in the video I'm running away from Snowdon. This is because I'm doing the Welsh 3000s (as explained in the first line of the video's description) which is over 26 miles of mountains and I'd barely even started the run. So yeah, that 400kcal of Lucozade was pretty important.

[@mattisvicious6069]

@@numbereightyseven or the moron. You never know.

[@XX-ts6lc]

Frankly, I am much more concerned about who could have been hit below.

[@BraveDave]

Funny you should say that, Perry, because a week or so later I found out that a walker on the Pyg Track had been killed by a bouncing Lucozade bottle on that very same day! I've no idea if it was mine or not, but who knows!

[@LordHeath1972]

Get back up there and pick up your fucking litter mate! Honestly, people leaving their shit all over Snowdon... LOL!!!! Haha!!

[@carforumwanker]

hate people that leave rubbish on mountains

[@BraveDave]

Me too.

[@BiggyJimbo]

In this particular case, I'm prepared to let it slide (literally). It's not like he's going risk his life to scale the entire south face of the ridge to find one bottle, is it?? People intentionally leaving rubbish where they could easily pick it up is where I have a problem.

[@markmitchell2282]

Could’ve been worse could’ve been a bag of nice cannabis 😂

[@BraveDave]

I don't think that a bag of weed would have bounced very far and so it would be much easier to collect :P

[@markmitchell2282]

Brave Dave You druggy 😂

[@BraveDave]

I've never touched the stuff! My lungs are far too fantastic to smoke anything.

[@markmitchell2282]

Brave Dave vaporise Dave vaporise . It’s actually good for you CBD . I don’t smoke it combustion bad for you

[@aliasofanalias7448]

Only coppers and government officials call it cannabis.