So you want a really challenging Walk up Snowdon? Why not try the Snowdon Girdle walk. Devised by the late Showell Styles, this is a grand tour of the cymoedd surrounding Snowdon that doesn’t actually reach the summit! This is a tough day, or an even better done as a two or three day walk […]
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I hadn’t intended to do Snowdon at all today. I was on my way to Bethania to complete a circuit of Moel Meirch and Cnicht, but decided that I’d rather follow a decent path in this low lying mist. I also hoped that the forecast was right, and that I’d be out of the cloud in
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In this extract from George Borrow’s Wild Wales, he ascends Snowdon from Bangor via Caernarfon, in a day and mostly on foot! Snowdon—Caernarvon—Maxen Wledig—Moel y Cynghorion—The Wyddfa—Snow of Snowdon—Rare Plant. On the third morning after our arrival at Bangor we set out for Snowdon. Snowdon or Eryri is no single hill, but a mountainous region,
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What if you want to walk up, but don’t think you can cope with walking the lot? You can catch the train up to Clogwyn Station and walk to the summit from there and cut out the majority of the hard climb. The main drawback is that you still need to work out how to
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Don’t want to do the easy routes? Need a route for a challenging weekend’s wild camping? Why not walk up Snowdon from sea level? Why stop there, you can then descend to sea level on a different coast and you can really say you did Snowdon the hard way!! Route to follow.
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This magnificent little scramble up the Y Gribin ridge on Snowdon, starts off from the Miners’ Track at Glaslyn and is over far too soon! The ridge only climbs 200m, but is quality all the way. As an added bonus, it is exceptionally quiet even on the busiest summer days. Y Gribin Ridge and Y
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It seems sometimes like all the walking routes up Snowdon are busy and far too civilised. Looking at the map, there’s been one route up that’s a little contrived, but pathless for a the most part. It does start off on one of the paths, and ends the route on another path, but somewhere in
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The Snowdon Ranger is a better, if longer, alternative to the Llanberis path if you’re based in Llanberis. Full description to follow, but you can follow the Snowdon Circular Route – section 1 from Llanberis to join the Snowdon Ranger Path.
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For those of you who are based in Nant Gwynant, but don’t wish to follow the crowds up the Watkin this is one of the better options. With sections that are almost off path, you start to forget that you’re on the flanks of one of the busiest mountains in the UK. Couple this by
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The Snowdon South Ridge path usually elicits a blank expression on most walkers when you mention routes up Snowdon. That expression would be blanker if you called it by its proper name of Allt Maenderyn! Those in the know however, realise that this is an absolute gem of a route that stands modestly in the
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This is one of the least obvious routes to Lliwedd and possibly on to Snowdon. Starting off on the Watkin path with the hordes, you’ll soon be leaving them behind, probably shaking their heads at you as you’re clearly going the wrong way. You need to follow the Watkin Path from Nant Gwynant, initially through the
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The summit of y Lliwedd is usually taken as a descent route, an anticlimax to the Snowdon Horseshoe. Failing to make the cut for the 15 peaks, it still makes a worthy trip in it’s own right when time is short, or as a more challenging route to the summit. Snowdon via Lliwedd from Pen
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