Weather Links

MWIS. Weather forecast for mountain regions. Only active Friday to Sunday. Highly Recommended.

Met Office. Now it's improved to a 5 day forecast! Great.

Snowdonia Snowline - States the altitude of lying snow in the Carneddau.

Metcheck weather

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Accuweather

Snowdon Weather Station Project. Weather data, but is down at the moment. The Webcams show Elidir Fawr and Moel Eilio.

Snowdon Sherpa Bus Timetables

Welsh Highland Railway.

Travelline Wales.

theTrainline - Timetables and online booking

The Welsh 3000s - website just about the 14 peaks.

The BMC - British Mountaineering Council.

The Mountain Bothy Association - yes, there are bothies in Eryri...

TAC - The Angry Corrie Scottish hillwalking fanzine, read it free.

Eryri - Snowdonia National Park.

Oggy Cam . Ogwen Mountain Rescue and a Ogwen Valley webcam.

BBC North West Wales.

Graham's Wales Photos. Loads of excellent pics on Eryri in here.

North Wales Photographs Beautiful photos of North Wales by Simon Kitchin.

Cambrian Mountains National Park A 'Should-Be' fourth welsh national park.

Snowdonia Society Charity which looks after the interests onf the National Park.

eryriway.org.uk Sister site to walkeryri, emphasising long distance trails.

Walk around Llyn Crafnant
A pleasant circuit around this attractive lake. Follows a decent lakeside track, but does have its slippery sections, so be careful. If you want to drag some non walking family members out for an afternoon, this is the walk to do it. Half way around there's a cafe (even sells bottles of Bud), so there's something for everyone. More information on the route on the Forestry Commission website that maintain this route and waymark it with Yellow posts. Or even better, you can go to the RSPB website and download the route (click on the Crafnant link to the right of the RSPB page).
Distance and Ascent 5.5 km / 200m OS Map Required OS Explorer 17 Landranger 150 Time 2 hours (plus sightseeing) Type of Path Waymarked`Yellow Posts' One steep section, country lanes. Start Location Car park (£1) near Lake. At GR SH 756 618 End Location as start Grading easy Facilities Toilets at start of walk, Cafe half way 'round lake,, pubs in Trefriw. Public Transport Some buses to Trefriw. Adds extra distance to walk. GPS Files

1. Start uphill from the car park along the road. You will shortly arrive at the lake.

2. At the lake, turn right over a footbridge and you find the forest trail.

3. Follow the trail, do not follow any forks that take you uphill. Other than that, there shouldbe no navigational problems. Once you have walked beyond the lake, you will find the track begin to narrow and rise sharply. It only climbs for a short distance before the downhill section. There is a waymark at the point you need to descend.

4. The section downhill is a little steep, and slippery in wet conditions. It is a clear path, with no other difficulties. It is only a short section and you are soon next to some cottages. Follow the track, and it takes you clearly to a gate and a tarmacked road.

5. Follow the road now to return to the car park. Half way along you will find the cafe, which was closed today.

General Links

Snowdonia attractions Several great reviews about some of Snowdonia's better known attractions. 

English-welsh dictionary Links and resources to help you translate that welsh word into English.

Walking shoes - Another site that I found that sells walking shoes online.

Merrell Walking Shoes from fitnessfootwear.com, decent little site i found for Merrell walking shoes.

Whalley Warm and Dry - paramo stockists, great service and range.

V-G Walking and Backpacking. Inspirational website detailing one to three (and more) day walks around the UK.

Trekking Britain. Route descriptions & experience as opposed to guide book.

OutdoorsMagic - Forum based website, lots of information on here.

Phil George - Mountain Leader Training in Llanberis.

Peak and Fell Walking - A photographic guide to walking in Britain's National Parks.

Wild Tramp.co.uk - New site on walking in the UK. Looks promising.

Tracklogs IMHO the best mapping for PC.

MemoryMap Still good, but route handling clumsier.

Viewranger mapping for smartphones.

Fugawi and Anquet are also popular.

Quo The new kid on the block.

Multimap - Free online mapping.

Get a Map - Free online mapping from the OS

Access Land in Wales - online mapping from CCW.