After our Snowdon walk, we had two days in three that involved car journeys. Firstly, on the Wednesday, I had to bring my eldest down to Gloucester, so he could return to Plymouth with his mum to get his GCSE results. Then on the Friday we were leaving Snowdonia, and heading to Bolton, for my…

So after a couple of warm up walks of Cnicht and Moel Siabod, we’d reached the big one, Snowdon or Yr Wyddfa in Welsh. This walk would see us all break through the 1000 metre barrier and for Linda and the boys its their highest walk. After a bit of research on the best routes,…

A bit of sunshine on this Sunday as we headed out again, the day after our blowy walk up Cnicht. The clouds were still skudding across the sky, but at least we got plenty of views, blue skies and no rain on this walk. Instead of the normal starting point of Capel Curig, we decided…

So this was to be our summer holiday, not this time to the Lakes, but Snowdonia (Eryri) alongside a couple of special events. My cousin was getting married in Llangollen, so we booked a Premier Inn in Oswestry and stayed a couple of nights there. Then we had a week in Penmachno, and looked for…

Coming to Snowdonia for the first time I was looking for a walk that would give me a flavour of what this area was about. There is the obvious Snowdon walk, or the Snowdon Horseshoe. There is the Carnedds or the Glyders or possibly Moel Siabod. In the end I decided that the Glyders would…