near the summit of snowdon

Climbing Snowdon

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May 3rd 2008
First visit to Wales to climb Snowdon (our second of the UK 3 peaks, after completing Scafell pike last September). Weather was a bit rough but we were determined to do it after not being able to complete Ben Nevis in March due to too much snow and ice. There was still little patches of snow up the top, and the walk up the miners path was super, past two lakes, I could imagine in summer it wou ... read more

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