A nice easy walk from Askrigg if you happen to be in the Wensleydale area of the Yorkshire Dales with an hour or so to spare… Would make a decent trail run as well. The Route It’s easy enough to follow this one! Heading north out of the village of Asgrigg past the Crown, head […]
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Follow the Pennine Way to the summit of the highest of the Wensleydale fells in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Steady, good walking all the way with a few ‘wet’ sections. It’s certainly doable on a mountain bike, but the two I talked to near the summit thought it was a fair old challenge! The
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A longer route that explores the quarries above Llanberis and Dinorwig. You can extend it into Brynrefail with the Fachwen Trail. The Route This starts off by exploring the Vivian Quarry in the Padarn Country park before climbing up into the former quarrying communities of Deiniolen and Clwt y Bont. As you return via Dinorwig,
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The slate industry forms a large part of Eryri’s history. Why not explore it on the various slate trails, or combine it with the longer Dinorwig Trail. From the end of the 18th Century until the beginning of the 20th Century the slate valley communities of Gwynedd – Ogwen, Peris, Nantlle, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Corris
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This a route that was once promoted by Gwynedd Council, but appears no longer supported on their site. The image of the way mark below was taken over five years ago and it had seen better days even then. It crosses from the Nantlle Valley, to the Gwyrfai, Padarn and Ogwen valleys, each of which has seen scarring
Following on from our lakeside walk around Llyn Padarn, here’s a quarry walk from the Padarn Country Park. This Padarn Country Park way-marked walk takes you through the old slate quarries and above Vivian Quarry and is ideal for anyone interested in the industrial archaeology of Llanberis and the Dinorwig Quarries. The Route Starting off
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Following on from our walk around Llyn Padarn, this is woodland family walking route from the Padarn Country Park in Llanberis. This is an easy, if steep in places, woodland walk that is ideal for the family. It also makes for a tough, but short trail run, so long as you go at a quiet time.
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The Nature Trail is a short woodland walk in the Padarn Country Park in Llanberis. It may be a short walk, but looking at the elevation profile below you can see that it’s steep enough in parts! The Route A straightforward walk in the Padarn Country Park following the green waymarks. Starting off at Gilfach
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Coed y Brenin is well known for it’s mountain biking, but less so for trail running. This is a waymarked trail run of around 7.5km, or you can follow the easier Lonc Sarn Helen if you fancy a 4.5km yomp instead. The annual Wales Trail Marathon is held here, so there’s some good trail running to
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A steady trail run from near Conwy. You can easily extend the run to nearer 10km by heading to Cefn Amor, past the old quarries and return along the really good green track on the opposite side of the hill. This is a pleasant trail run along grassy paths that, other than the uphill bits,
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Walk the Carneddau in one go – if you’re up to the challenge! There’s nothing more satisfying than a decent traverse of an entire mountain range. This walk takes you loosely from Conwy over the Carneddau and down to Capel Curig and can be an ideal wild camping trip. Why not extend your trip by
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This walking route up Arenig Fach in central Snowdonia is ideal if you want to get away from the madding crowds of Eryri. Beware that the terrain up Arenig Fach is one of the wildest and pathless parts of Snowdonia. Even the notorious Rhinogydd have better paths. Here you’ll find very few traces of previous
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Funnily enough, we went up Mynydd Mawr by this route the day it was published! Here are some further images of the walk.
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There’s always something special when you manage to fit a decent walk in on a weekeday. It’s almost like stolen time as we aren’t meant to do fun things on a weekday. It’s all work, work, work. So you have to work around that, and make the most of things. Well, I live so close to the hills
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This is a nice, quiet walk. So close to Snowdon, you can almost hear the crowds. Indeed, you can’t fail to miss them in Rhyd Ddu where they tend to gather to climb the highest peak in Wales and England. Fortunately for us, they don’t know any better and will leave today’s destination well alone.
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You may just be tempted to defy the weather and get out this weekend on a wild camp. Here are some suggestions where to go or avoid. 1 – Wyddfa. It’s a bank holiday and a relatively small area. Probably not the place for a quiet wild camp. There are a few spots where you
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This is a two day backpacking route across the Carneddau that I walked as a very steady three day walk, wild camping for two nights. You could easily walk it in a day, or as a steady two day trip. As we were setting off early evening on the first day, it was essentially a
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If you like to bag peaks then this epic trek up Cadair Idris, climbing all the main summits is definitely the way to do it. Llanfihangel-y-pennant is a tiny hamlet of a church, a house and a block of public toilets to service the small car park. It’s also the birthplace of Mari Jones who walked 26 barefoot miles, for
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Despite the proximity of the much busier Cadair Idris, these are rarely walked hills, though anyone who’s been along the A470 will have been impressed with the aspect they display to the drivers. The experience for the walker though, is rather more sedate, being a bimbly walk with no real difficulties over a terrain that’s
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Aran Fawddwy is the highest mountain south of Snowdon and the highest summit in South Snowdonia, yet this is a largely ignored hill. It is barely 10m below the magic mark of 914m and often overlooked in favour of its less lofty, but more spectacular neighbour Cader Idris. Fortunately, this means that a walk up
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Cwm Bychan is one of the more remote areas of Snowdonia. There’s just a narrow, unclassified road leading up to the cwm and no through route. In summer it’s a beautifully wooded valley, but today the lake was frozen over and the place felt like winter. There’s parking noted on the OS map, and it
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Arenig Fawr stands almost alone, dominating the landscape around it. There’s an easier route up, but this one is slightly off path! It is a contrasting route that starts off too easily along an old quarry track, but as soon as it finishes, you’re largely on your own. A short, unpleasant, section uphill on boulders
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Aran Fawddwy, despite Cader Idris stealing the limelight, is still the high point of South Snowdonia and Mid Wales. While Cader Idris has all on show, for all to see; Aran Fawddwy and Aran Benllyn are much more modest, keeping their most attractive faces only for those who are willing to put some effort in to get
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Getting to this walk is probably the hardest part! The Llyn Sarnau car park can either be reached by the minor road that passes the Ty Hyll off the A5, or a minor road that starts from near Gwydir Castle on the B5106. The latter is the better road. Once here, make sure to be
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