Crib Goch

About Crib Goch

Crib Goch is a knife-edged arête in Eryri, its name meaning red ridge in Welsh. The crest tops out at 923 metres.

Every line on it counts as graded territory in the sense used by Steve Ashton's Scrambles in Snowdonia: a summer scramble, a winter mountaineering route. The easiest, taking in the so-called bad step, is graded Grade 1 scrambling.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Crib Goch (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 53.076, -4.055. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SH621551 · 857 m

Classification history: Added to Trail 100 list Jan 2020.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Crib Goch is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa (1,085 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 857 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks