England, Ireland, Scotland, WALES! In the month of January we visited all four of these countries. This trip to Snowdonia with the Cambridge University Hillwalking Club provided the most exciting winter weather: a snow shower on the drive in, and some beautiful walking through snow. Despite dire weather warnings of hail, whiteouts and -20 wind chill, the weather was beautiful - relatively speaking. Point being, it didn't rain even once, the temperature hovered around zero and wind did not threaten to blow you off the mountain. On the first day it was quite windy and we were feeling uncertain about walking in the wintry conditions, so we joined Matt's group for an easy 20km walk through a forest to Llyn Cowlyd (a resevoir, in case you don't speak Welsh). The forest was so still and quiet
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