This is a great walk for half a day or an evening. The Route For a route description – click here. Had a great walk up after work tonight, the first after work bimble of the year. It was cloudy and the windchill was unexpected for April, especially after the exceptionally warm March. The best thing […]
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If you’re just getting into trail and fell running, you may want to get off path without all that ascent. This easy route starts at over 350m at the Bwlch y Groes car park before a steady ascent takes you through the quarries to the summit of Cefn Du at 441m. The return path is
A long route starting in Rhyd Ddu and ending in Llanberis, though you could well return via the Clogwyn Gwin path to the start. Ascending via the Allt Maenderyn (south) Ridge and descending over Moel Cynghorion which isn’t much of a destination for a single day but an ideal viewpoint to end one. The Route
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We took a bimble up the summit of Moel Eilio and the ridge beyond today. Here are some of the pictures that we took on the walk. The route starts above Waunfawr at the Bwlch y Groes car park, but be warned that the road and parking is a little rough! The Route It’s an
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Took the opportunity to do this walk today as there was just a nice dusting of snow, and we intended to fit any walk into the morning. The Route If you want a description of this walk – see here. We set off this morning with some wet slush underfoot, lightly covering the black oozing
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A longish walk from Nantmor through the ancient woodland in the Nantmor valley and across the moor to Llyn Dinas. The return is then along the Afon Glaslyn, though Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass via the riverside fisherman’s path. The Route To follow…
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This route featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. I don’t even know why I chose this one! Probably as I think I ought to get out and do it, and partially for the same reason as people run those races with barbed wire and mud. Crossing this area seems like a penance in
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This is Steve Ashton’s Walk across the Rhinogydd from our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. Ashton does, admittedly, do them the easy way. He starts off in Cwm Bychan and then follows the entire ridge to Abermaw (Barmouth). While the walk is well described, there is the issue of returning to the start. Ashton also
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This is the Steve Ashton Moelwynion Ridge walk featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. Setting off from Dolwyddelan, he takes the route up via the forest and to Llyn y Foel, Daear Ddu and follows the route around to Allt Fawr, before recalling how he managed to get a lift to the start
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This is the Steve Ashton Nantlle Ridge route from our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. The classic Snowdonia ridge walk without doubt, and he provides the vanilla version from Rhyd Ddu over to Garnedd Coch, over all the best bits and omitting that little upstart – Mynydd Graig Goch. The beauty of this book,
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Here are a selection of the best routes in no particular order that I’ve taken from guidebooks that are largely out of print. The criteria for the routes are the ability to inspire and describe the route in question, to make me want to explore. So the routes chosen had to have some element of
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A very short walk from Congl-y-wal at the southern end of Blaenau Ffestiniog, beneath the cliffs of Manod Mawr and returning via farmland to the start. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright Eric Jones and licensed for reuse
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A short walk into Cwm Bowydd, probably better combined with one of the other nearby routes such as Afon Goedol or Afon Teigl routes. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright Barry Hunter and licensed for reuse under
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A short walk through the oak woodlands to the north of Rhyd-y-sarn. Could equally be walked from Tanygrisiau or as part of the Afon Goedol route. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright Paul Glover and licensed for
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Walk along the Tanygrisiau Reservoir before dropping down to Rhyd-y-sarn and the wooded valley surrounding the Afon Goedol. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright Jeremy Bolwell and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
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A walk around the reservoir at Tanygrisiau, that can be easily completed from the Ffestiniog Railway. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright rob bishop and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
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Tanygrisiau may be the highest settlement in this valley these days, but walk up into Cwmorthin to see Plas Cwmorthin, or what’s left of it. You can extend the walk into Bwlch Cwmorthin and Rhosydd Quarry which was an even tougher place for the quarrymen to live. The Route Click here to view the full
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A walk in Southern Snowdonia from the village of Abergynolwyn to the Dysynni Valley and it’s ruined Welsh castle – Castell y Bere which is well worth the short diversion from the route to visit. The Route Click here to view the full description and route guide. © Copyright Nigel Brown and licensed for reuse under this Creative
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The northern section of this walk, a steady walk on it’s own but a decent day’s walking if you complete the entire circuit! Probably best done from Llanuwchllyn starting with the southern section as you then have the town of Y Bala at your disposal at lunchtime. The lake is always Llyn Tegid, on no
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A long rural walk along the hills on the southern shore of Llyn Tegid (never Bala Lake! That’s like calling Llyn Padarn – Llanberis Lake). You can start in Llanuwclhlyn or at the Bala end of the lake and you could return via the narrow gauge railway or the Llyn Tegid Circular Walk North for
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Starting in the village of Llanllyfni, which may or may not still have a pub called the Quarryman’s Arms by the time you walk this, exploring the southern side of the Nantlle valley. Passing through Nebo and Nazareth, showing the influence of the chapel going quarrymen. There’s not a single pub anywhere in the hills
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This walk starts in Talysarn and explores the southern end of the valley. Well worth combining with the Llanllyfni and Nebo route for a longer walk. For a longer route, you can link it in with any of these other Nantlle Slate Paths – Nantlle and y Fron, Clogwyn Melyn, and Llanllyfni and Nebo. The Route Click here to view
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Starting off in the village of Talysarn this route then passes under the hill of Clogwyn Melyn and some green lanes on the other side, providing views along towards Caernarfon before returning across the shallow col of Cilgwyn and back down through the quarries to the start. Again, the views towards the Nantlle Ridge have
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The route starts off in the hamlet of Nantlle, with it’s lake and views of Snowdon being both scenic and little known compared to the honeypots elsewhere in the park which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The start is relatively unspoilt, but you do walk through the industrial archaeology of the quarries along the flanks
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