Hiking up Mount Snowdon

Today 11/11/11 was an early getup and leave via a traditional english breakfast - Seemed very similar to the traditional scottish breakfast really... But it was still good, a small scare because I left my camera on the stairs where I had to move to get the wifi - luckily a good Samaritan handed my camera to the owners of the B+B and I got it back in the morning. So a stroke of good fortune in the morning. We then were to go to Mount Snowdon. We hadn't looked at where we were going, so we took off in the general direction - found it after I found a old window (on my computer) open of where the mountain pass was.

We arrived after about 40 minutes of driving, stopped in the car park of Pen-y- Pass . There are about 4 or 5 paths up to the summit, we chose the shortest and fastest route. The weather whilst not raining, it was cloudy, windy and cold. Andrew didn't come - and wanted to stay in the car for 5 hours.... Fine. Doesn't like hiking. Mark and I set off the mildly steep path the went past two lakes before it started to incline, and our nice gravel path turned into a steeped rocky path. Eventually we climbed far enough for the path to turn into more of a steep climb rather than a walk. The track wasn't the easiest to follow but wasn't that bad. The mist that we were climbing towards got a little thicker, and the wind was strong as we got higher. It was mountain conditions - but the mountain was only 1100m high! We reached the summit, trekking the last 15 minutes through heavy fog and fierce winds. It was fulfilling reaching the top after about a 1.50 minute hike. Half of that time was steep uphill. On the downside it was terrible weather with mist and fog - as you will see from the pictures! We then got down in about 1.30 minutes. The drive from the mountain to Tunbridge wells was ok - I started reading 'Tomorrow when the war began' (book 1) and the drive went fast. We arrived to see Kwko our host from Tunbridge Wells we stayed with last time. As what happened last time, we had a huge meal prepared for us, and drinks to be. We were pretty tired, so we chatted for a bit and then went to bed.

In summary - my leg is obviously better now, there is no way it would have got through yesterday if it wasn't, also the hike was really nice to go on. One of the longer hikes we have done - nice to get out and bash out some energy on a good walk.

(photos will come - but not on the boat cause internet is waaaay to slow)

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