Mount Snowden

Up early and a 40-minute drive to Llanberis to catch the train to the summit of Mount Snowden. Didn't see much on the way up because of the fog and rain. Arrived at the top around 10am after an hours train ride. Put on all our cold/wet weather gear before going up to the summit (about 2 minutes from the station).
It was foggy, raining lightly, and blowing a gale at the summit. Visibility zero. Not much fun.
We decided to walk down the mountain anyway even though we had return tickets on the train. The first half a kilometer of the descent was pretty horrendous, particularly for Jules whose glasses fogged up with the rain and whose hair was playing up in the high winds, blinding her. It was pretty slow going. Geoff was having second thoughts at this stage, but not Jules.
Half a km in, the track turned off the ridge and suddenly there was no wind. The rain eased shortly after. The track was moderately hard for us old timers but not for the hundreds of others we passed on the track.
After a couple of km we dropped below the cloud cover and had stunning views for the rest of the walk. We took the easy path down, the miners trail, which was very gentle for the last few km as it was a track used many years ago to supply miners about a third of the way up the mountain.
We finished the walk at Pen-y-Pass. Had an ice cream at Pen -y-Pass to celebrate Jules crossing another item off her bucket list while we waited for the shuttle bus that would take us 20 min back to Llanberis.
Both pretty tired at the end of it and both happy with what we were able to achieve given our various ailments.Read more