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Snowdonia Links

Weather Links

Capel Curig Weather.

MWIS. Weather forecast for mountain regions. Only active Friday to Sunday. Highly Recommended.

Met Office. Now it's improved to a 5 day forecast! Great.

Snowdonia Snowline - States the altitude of lying snow in the Carneddau.

Metcheck weather

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Accuweather

Snowdon Weather Station Project. Weather data, but is down at the moment. The Webcams show Elidir Fawr and Moel Eilio.

Public Transport

Snowdon Sherpa Bus Timetables

Welsh Highland Railway.

Travelline Wales.

theTrainline - Timetables and online booking

Others

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.

Walk Eryri Navigation Skills Page.

Find information here on navigation skills and navigational skill courses in Snwdonia.

Timing and Pacing Card Creator. All you need to do is put your rate of pacing in this Excel file and print it off! Feel free to use it for personal use, or if you want to print them off for courses. Providing you leave the credit to Walk Eryri on the card. NO permission is given if you wish to print, laminate and sell them. If you don't have Excel, then open office (free) will open the file.
Navigational Courses in Snowdonia. Coming Soon. If you're new to navigation or want to develop your night nav, then we have just the courses for you.	Email if you want details of mountain navigation courses in Snowdonia.
How to take a Bearing. PDF file on Silva's site that explains briefly in one page how to use a compass. Short, but does the job. Please note that this link takes you outside this website and opens the file in Acrobat Reader. Alternatively, right click on the link and use 'save as' to keep it on your computer.
Ordnance Survey Advanced Map Reading Free leaflet that doesn't seem to be easy to find on their site. Covers the main techniques of navigation from contouring to taking a bearing. Does miss out on handrailing and catching features, but nevertheless is a decent freeresource. Click here for an Introduction To Maps and here for Map Reading Made Easy - both leaflets ideally suited to people who want to develop their map reading skills (interpreting symbols, contours and taking grid references)
How to use the GPX files provided with your GPS. Also a brief explanation of free SMC contour maps for compatible Garmin GPS units.

General Links

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.

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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ANY ADVICE FOLLOWED ON THESE PAGES ARE AT THE READER'S OWN RISK. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S STUPIDITY OR INEXPERIENCE. IF YOU WANT TO WALK THE HILLS GO ON A COURSE, ASK AN EXPERIENCED FRIEND OR JOIN A CLUB. DONT EXPECT TO READ UP ON THE INTERNET AND BECOME AN EXPERT. I HAVE BEEN UP IN THESE HILLS FOR MANY YEARS, THATS HOW YOU GAIN EXPERIENCE...Phew! Rant over.