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Snowdonia Links

Pete's Eats - The well known walker's and climber's caff in Llanberis.

 

Weather Links

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MWIS. Weather forecast for Snowdonia.

Met Office. 5 day mountain forecast.

Snowdonia Snowline - Daily record of the Carneddau Snowline.

Metcheck weather - Longer range forecasts.

Advertise your Snowdonia Business here! Email for info.

Accuweather

Snowdon Weather Station Project. Weather data and Webcams of Elidir Fawr and Moel Eilio.

 

Public Transport

Snowdon Sherpa Bus Timetables

Welsh Highland Railway.

Travelline Wales.

Snowdon Mountain Railway

 

Other Links

The Welsh 3000s - website just about the 14 peaks.

The BMC - British Mountaineering Council.

The Mountain Bothy Association - yes, there are bothies in Eryri...

TAC - The Angry Corrie Scottish hillwalking fanzine, read it free.

Eryri - Snowdonia National Park.

Oggy Cam . Ogwen Mountain Rescue and a Ogwen Valley webcam.

BBC North West Wales.

Graham's Wales Photos. Loads of excellent pics on Eryri in here.

North Wales Photographs Beautiful photos of North Wales by Simon Kitchin.

Cambrian Mountains National Park A 'Should-Be' fourth welsh national park.

Snowdonia Society Charity which looks after the interests onf the National Park.

eryriway.org.uk Sister site to walkeryri, emphasising long distance trails.

 

10 walking routes to the top of Snowdon.

Free downloadable contour map of Snowdon and the main routes up!

This has now been updated and a better map can be downloaded here. 1.88 Mb

A map for Nant Gwynant walks is here. 2.57 Mb

This is the first in a series of printable contour maps i'm going to produce to accompany the routes on this site. Please read the disclaimer and copyright notices on the maps. You will still need a Harvey or Ordnance Survey map. I've aimed at a reasonably small file size, but struggled to get it below 6mb without losing quality. The final file is just under a meg and of 'reasonable' quality. I may consider putting the hight quality file online too.

Please note the information at the bottom of the page regarding the train and single fares!

Download the Acrobat version of the Snowdon Contour Map (900k). acrobat file

snowdon mountain railway

contour map of snowdon free download

Some people seem to think they can walk up Snowdon and not worry about the descent as they can catch the train - this isn't a guaranteed option. See the information below from the Snowdon Mountain Railway. A much better option if the full walk is too much for you is to catch the train to Clogwyn Station (route to follow!).

Operating Days 2009
Weather permitting trains will run every day from late-March to the first week of November. From March to early May trains will terminate at either Clogwyn or Rocky Valley (subject to winter weather conditions).
The Summit Station is the usual destination between early May and the end of October. Trains may be operated by steam or diesel traction and run subject to passenger demand and weather conditions.

Single tickets
Single tickets can be purchased in advance for the journey up Snowdon.
Descent single tickets are only sold on a standby basis from the Summit and are subject to limited availability.

 

 

 

General Links

Snowdonia attractions Several great reviews about some of Snowdonia's better known attractions. 

English-welsh dictionary Links and resources to help you translate that welsh word into English.

Walking shoes - Another site that I found that sells walking shoes online.

Merrell Walking Shoes from fitnessfootwear.com, decent little site i found for Merrell walking shoes.

Whalley Warm and Dry - paramo stockists, great service and range.

V-G Walking and Backpacking. Inspirational website detailing one to three (and more) day walks around the UK.

Trekking Britain. Route descriptions & experience as opposed to guide book.

OutdoorsMagic - Forum based website, lots of information on here.

Phil George - Mountain Leader Training in Llanberis.

Peak and Fell Walking - A photographic guide to walking in Britain's National Parks.

Wild Tramp.co.uk - New site on walking in the UK. Looks promising.

 

Digital Mapping

Tracklogs IMHO the best mapping for PC.

MemoryMap Still good, but route handling clumsier.

Viewranger mapping for smartphones.

Fugawi and Anquet are also popular.

Quo The new kid on the block.

Open Street Map - Open source mapping as featured on this site.

Multimap - Free online mapping.

Get a Map - Free online mapping from the OS

Access Land in Wales - online mapping from CCW.

 

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