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Outdoor Leisure Series: 17 Snowdonia – Snowdon & Conwy Valley

Weather Forecasts

Consult the phone book for details of recorded weather forecasts. Daily forecasts are also pinned at strategic points around the park (e.g. Pen y Pass and Ogwen Cottage). These services are provided by the Snowdonia National Park Authority.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Tony Jones, Honorary Chairman of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation, and Dr. Ieuan Jones, Specialist in Accident Surgery, for help in compiling the ‘Emergency Checklists’.

I would also like to thank Del Davies for some route suggestions, and the staff of Plas y Brenin for the use of their library.

A: THE CARNEDDAU

Geography lacks the subtlety to describe the Carneddau ridges: their abrupt rise, and gradual fall, in sinuous fingers towards the sea. Ridges on a grand scale; ten mile undulating strips of grass and fine stones, ideally suited to the walker going fast and far. And none of the Glyders’ intricate hollows here; instead these cwms are hours long and thick with nature. But these hills are glorious only for as long as the sun shines. At other times they can be the most mind-numbing, leg-throbbing, body-chilling, toe-stubbing mountains of soil and stone this side of the Scottish border.