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The path soon starts to climb steeply again and meets the Watkin Path coming from the right at a solitary marker stone. The summit is only a few minutes climb away up a gentle but bouldery slope.

From the top of Snowdon, a constructed path leads down beside the railway line. In years gone by, climbers on their way down from Cloggy would put a slab of rock across the rails, sit on it, and slide down to Llanberis. It’s unthinkable that anyone would do that now; it must have been both a high-risk and exhilarating practice, and it is a wonder no one was killed doing it. Very much a case of ‘Don’t try this at home!’

The Llanberis Path and the Snowdon Ranger Path are one at the top of Snowdon, and closely follow the railway track. On the way down you pass a prominent marker stone on your right, where the Pyg Track descends for Pen y Pass. A short way further on, look for another marker stone over the other side of the railway on your left at the start of the Snowdon Ranger path. Follow this down above the cliffs of Clogwyn Du’r Arddu you reach the pass, Bwlch Cwm Brwynog, where you carry on along the path for a further 1.5km (1 mile).