Anyone who is reasonably fit with no health problems should be able to walk up and down Snowdon in under 8 hours.
You shouldn’t need to ‘train’ specifically for the walk, but of course any extra uphill walking beforehand will help and the fitter you are then the more you’ll enjoy it!
Try walking a 16km walk that’s reasonably flat in the first instance, if you can’t complete that then you’ll struggle walking up Snowdon
Why not try a lower peak first? Moel Eilio nearby is an ideal up and down from Llanberis.
Which would be the easiest walk up Snowdonia as I have had a lung transplant and and I have heard I could get a train back down.
Thank you
Deanna Esposito
The easiest walk is generally accepted to be the Llanberis path, but ‘easy’ in this case can still mean 3 to 4 hours of hard work just for the ascent. You can get a train down in theory, but in practice it’s not that easy. All the tickets are sold for specific trains up and down, and when I last enquired you couldn’t just book the ticket for the descent. I’d contact the Snowdon Mountain Railway for clarification on this.
Do you need to train before walking up Snowdon?
February 26, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Which would be the easiest walk up Snowdonia as I have had a lung transplant and and I have heard I could get a train back down.
Thank you
Deanna Esposito
February 26, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Hi Deanna,
The easiest walk is generally accepted to be the Llanberis path, but ‘easy’ in this case can still mean 3 to 4 hours of hard work just for the ascent. You can get a train down in theory, but in practice it’s not that easy. All the tickets are sold for specific trains up and down, and when I last enquired you couldn’t just book the ticket for the descent. I’d contact the Snowdon Mountain Railway for clarification on this.