The Rhyd Ddu Path up Snowdon starts off, not surprisingly, in Rhyd Ddu, just by the Welsh Highland Railway Station. It was historically known as the Beddgelert Path, as it originally started there as a pony path with the original line walkable from Pont Cae’r Gors. Taking the train to the start of this walk […]
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One of the lesser used routes up Yr Wyddfa used to start at the farm at Ffridd Uchaf, near Pont Cae’r Gors, which gave a slight variation on the Rhyd Ddu Path. This used to be known as the Beddgelert Path – when victorian era tourists would end up climbing Yr Wyddfa by pony. The
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For those of you who might think that all the routes up Snowdon are well known, here’s another one to add to the Cwm Clogwyn ascent. The Clogwyn Gwin path starts at Rhyd Ddu and is an ideal way to create a circuit from Rhyd Ddu without having to return over Bwlch Main, especially if
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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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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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