Snowdonia Links

Weather Links

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

Advertise your Snowdonia Business here! Email for info.

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

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.

uk.rec.walking

Ok, to start off, i'm a relative newcomer to this group, though I was posting on and off to some groups back in 1997, so I have experience of newsgroups. The uk.rec.walking (URW for short) is a walking Usenet newsgroup, though that you may have guessed already. The FAQ (frequently asked questions - always useful to find for a group) sets out what the newsgroup is about.

The general advice for a newsgroup is to 'lurk' for a while, that is to read posts without contributing yourself. This allows you to get a feel for what the group is like, familiarise yourself with recent topics (called threads) so you don't go asking advice on the SuperFlamethrowerUltralight stove, just after the group have been discussing it the month before. Of course, you can ask specific questions that the original thread didn't quite cover or explain fully enough for you. Oh yes, and make sure your posts are on topic. Generally speaking it isn't a good idea to go onto a walking website and start asking questions about why your PC doesn't work. On the other hand, people do post Off Topic, but the title of the thread is always preceded by OT.

This page here is essentially a help page for Usenet. It is quite full, and most questoins you might have will be here. Another useful page is this one. Allowing you to understand postings such as:

AFAIC what Jones said was TIC. PMFJI but you lot should PMIGBOM! And OATUS , ISTR said protaganist ROTFLOL when he was last told to RTFAQ!

SCNR ;-))

Nex time we get a TSOHF, IMHO , we should ask, AWGTHTGTATA ?

Don't worry, most posts are written in sensible English. With the occasional acronym thrown in, and you may well be familiar with them already.

Well, thats a bit of an intro, you need to know how to get onto newsgroups next.

Option 1 (simplest) go to Google groups, uk.rec.walking. And if you have a MAC then the only suggestion I can offer. If you have Linux installed, then you probably know more than me anyway.

Option 2. Set up Outlook Express to read news, click on the link to find out how. The only change you need to do is to input the name of your own news server. If you don't know it, contact your ISP and they should help. Many people don't like the software, but I'm merely suggesting it as it's very likely you have it installed already.

Option 3. Install a 3rd party Newsreader, and you can see there are loads.

Remember, this is just a brief introduction to newsgroups and how to get onto them.

Dave Roberts

18th February 2005

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.