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Capel Curig Weather.

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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.

 

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Not necessarily Eryri, Not necessarily walking even!

Snowdonia Guide. Informative site all about Snowdonia. * Peak Walker. Walks and photos of walks in the Peak District. *
Bedsearcher. Find accommodation to go with your walks. * Heng Genting Mountain Activities - outdoor activities and training. *
Backpackinglight. A decent little online shop that specialises in lightweight gear. Bob, or Podcast Bob to those in the know, produces a podcast on the site that is absolutely great for gear-heads like me.

Alpkit. Quality gear at budget prices. I have a down bag off them, a sleeping mattress and a torch, spent about £120 in total. Free postage to boot. Quality!

Diaries of a Long Distance Walker. Useful and readable site about long distance walking, but you may have already guessed that. Welsh Country Crafts. Take a bit of wales home with you from Llangollen. *

Striding Edge Link/icon

StridingEdge.net. A site with walks and photos, based in the Lake District. It has to be said, there's loads of walks! I hope i can get out half as much as this guy does, so it's updated quite frequently. *

Paramo Directional Clothing Systems

"Páramo - outdoor clothing with a difference. Unique directional fabrics combined with intelligent functional
designs born in the mountains, to keep you drier and more comfortable than ever before."
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BMC - British Mountaineering Council. The Ramblers.
Countryside Council for Wales have set up an excellent interactive map that allows you to check up on Access Land. * Dennis and Jackie's Walking Site. For walks further afield in "Austria , Zermatt, Andorra, Slovenia, Pyrenees (St Lary), Peloponnese (Greece) and Fopollo (Italy)".*

Mountains of England and Wales.

"This is a website for hill walkers and summit-baggers, attempting to provide accurate Ordnance Survey grid references for the 2000ft mountain tops, and prominent lower hills, of England and Wales."

Cadair View Lodge. Log cabin accommodation ideally situated for the central ranges of the Rhinogydd and Cadair Idris. *

UK web directory (uklinks.org) with links to walking pages. * Gear-Zone online retailer.
Plas Y Brenin, the National, and local outdoors pursuits centre based in Capel Curig. * Walks in North West Wales on the BBC local website, excellent source of information. *
Gentian Mountaineering Club. National mountaineering club affiliated to the BMC. Wild Tramp.co.uk - New site on walking in the UK. Looks promising.
Lakelandwalker.co.uk.Paul Rose's site dedicated to bagging all the Wainrights. What's a wainright? Visit his site to find out! * Andy Wallace's Fellwalker pages. " This isn't a guide book, there are plenty of those, every fell and every day on the fells has its own character and the potential to be a new experience, sometimes a challenge."*
Graham's Wales Photos. Found the link on uk.rec.walking, but the pics i kept finding on google image search, so i was quite chuffed when i found this. Loads of excellent pics on Eryri, among other upland areas, in here. *

Harperswalking. Family walking in the Lake District. Plenty of route descriptions and photos here for anyone contemplating hill walking up in the Lake district. *


 

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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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