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

Weather Links

MWIS. Weather forecast for Snowdonia.

Met Office. 5 day mountain forecast.

Snowdonia Snowline - Daily record of the Carneddau Snowline.

Metcheck weather - Longer range forecasts.

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Accuweather

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

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.

Moel Hebog from Beddgelert.
Distance and Ascent 13.5 km / 940m OS Map Required OS Explorer 17 Landranger 150 Time 6 Hours Difficulties Navigation over pathless, bouldery sections. Boggy forestry path. Start Location Free Car Park at SH 588 483 End Location as start Grading Hard Facilities Toilets, shops, pubs and cafes in village. Public Transport Sherpa Buses from Caernarfon, Porthmadog, Pen y Pass or Betws y Coed. GPS Files

The walk starts wherever you find yourself in Beddgelert. If you are at thebridge in the centre, follow the road towards Caernarfon and past the free car park toyour right (which is the suggested starting point above). Pass the outdoors shop (Y Warws) and you soon arrive at a left turning with a sign on the gate saying it's a private road. It is a bridleway however, and you do have access rights.

This track takes you easily through some forestry along a river, where they are currently rebuilding the Welsh Highland Railway. There has been opposition to this by some people, but it has to be better than more cars on the rural road. Today, the road was a little blocked due to the farmer taking his sheep off the mountain.

Follow the road until you arrive at a cottage (Cwm Cloch Uchaf, not marked on map), where the track continues to your left past some disused buildings. Ignore that track, and take the bridleway to the right. It soon branches left, and you are now on the track up Moel Hebog. The main care that is needed is to keep to the faint track that is deep in the bracken.

If you think the route is steep to start with, then it does not relent further up. It is a bit of a slog, but once you cross a wall, you start feeling the height and are soon on rocky scree. There is some scrambling here too, but nothing difficult or technical, and it is all avoidable. If the path splits, then take whichever looks best as we found them quite similar in difficulty. At the top of the scree section, the slope finally relents. This is the first fasle summit, so don't celebrate yet.

Continue across the top, past another fasle summit, until the path takes you to the summit trig point. There is no shelter on top of the hill, and today we found ourselves regretting leaving the shelter behind (i've yet to use it). We did find one wall that sheltered us, so had a brief lunchbreak here before continuing the route.

The wall leading to the right of the trigpoint as you approach the summit is the wall you need to now follow. Keep to the near side of this wall and be cautious on the descent on steep grass. A path will soon appear, but it is generally easier to walk off this. Bwlch Meillionen arrives soon, and the cleft in the rocks of Moel yr Ogof that you can walk through become the dominant feature ahead. Cross the col, it's a bit boggy, and while i ascended to the right of the crags this time, a better ascent is through the cleft.

This brings you out at a small tarn, surrounded by boggy bits. We skirted this to the right along a reasonable path, but could see how this would be very boggy in a less dry summer. Follow the path and you may need to scramble over the rocks to get to the summit of Moel yr Ogof. Nothing adorns the summit, but that's for the best. You know these are quiet hills. Not many walkers come this way, but may now that Trail have published the route.

The descent is rocky, but the easier line is found to the left and then a grassy pathtakes you up to Moel Llefn. You can tackle it direct, but an easier line is to skirt to the left and take a right to the summit, which isn't much to write home about, but the views are extensive and unfamiliar. The descent from here is a bit rocky, but veer right first and the path descends reasonably easy grass.

Care is needed now as one path veers to the right, to the top of a sheer drop. You need the path that goes left, and this contours round above a steep grassy slope. It takes you down towards the forest, and a small disused quarry to your right. Ahead lies a slate path down past overgrown slate heaps that aren't apparent from above. It is a little steep in places, and slippery in the wet. This leads to the col where you turn right into the forest along a very boggy path. Fortunately, this is only for a couple of hundred metres, where you turn left. The path continues to the right of this track, but it is again vary boggy and did not appeal. I remember trying the path a few years back and it wasn't pleasant.

So a descent via the forestry paths is the easier route. Continue forward along the track, before turning right. Continue on this track, until you hit the next one and turn left. You go past Llyn Llewelyn and continue forward along the track. You soon reach the Forestry campsite, and from here it's a brief road walk back to Beddgelert. Normally you can return via the forestry tracks that were currently closed due to the WHR being rebuilt.

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.

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.