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.

Elidir Fawr and Marchllyn Circuit.
Distance and Ascent 10.5km, 960m ascent OS Map Required OS Explorer 17 Landranger 150 Time 5 hours. Difficulties Routefinding in mist, esp over Elidir Summit. Start Location Deiniolen End Location As start. Grading Moderate - Hard Facilities Roadside parking only. Public Transport Fequent bus service to Deiniolen from Caernarfon or Bangor. GPS Files

It turned out to be a dry morning, so there's just one thing for it. Hit the hills. I decided to minimise effort (lazy) i would climb Elidir Fawr from below the Reservoir, meaning i could start the walk at about 370m, and my knees would be grateful for that.

The walk starts at Grid Reference 596631, at a carpark at the top of Deiniolen. There appears to be some sort of camp here too, with caravans and old buses taking the car park over, so you'll probably need to park lower down. Or better still, use the bus to get here.

Its an easy stroll up the access road up to the reservoir, before you turn off the road at the fork at 615624, which is another tarmac road leading to real hill a 100m or so distant. This is the start of the day, where a relatively steep, and indistinct in places, path leads up to the bwlch below Carnedd y Filiast. At this point, i was nearly blown off my feet, so had to shelter for a few minuites, have a brew and consider my options.

Obviously, I couldn't turn back, so I kept on, against the wind, and falling over at regular intervals until I found a sheltered spot, so I rested there for a few mins, before the final stretch for the summit. And then, the wind slowed.

Anyway, no view, so I continued to Mynydd Perfedd where the summit shelter was a good point to have a hot flask of soup.

From here it was decision time. Over Elidir Fawr and back to Deiniolen, or down via Cwm Dudodyn to Nant Peris. However, when I reached the start of the Nant Peris path, it was hoplessly steep and eroded, so the summit of Elidir Fawr was to be tackled, with hope that the daylight would be sufficient.

Marvellous day, up to now, whenI decided to descend the northern slopes of Elidir Fawr, straight down to the track. This turned out to be a nasty descent over loose, slippery, bouldery scree before relenting to merely loose, slippery scree. A better route would be to continue further along the ridge and then descend a path to Elidir Fach. Follow the ridge then down to the reservoir track you started on and back to the start.

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.