I’ve just got back from my 15th (I think) trip up Snowdon. The trip started yesterday morning when I jumped in the (lightened by way of back seat removal) car and travelled around 4 and a half hours from South to North Wales. When I got there I set up the tent at the camp site and waited for my sister-in-law and co. After an evening of curry and Plop Trumps we retired for the nights. Getting up early this morning was easy cuz we didn’t sleep much (camp site was noisy.. booo), and we managed to get to the Pen-y-Pass car park for 6:45am. Good job we got there early because we ended up with two of the last 5 or so parking spaces – that car park is getting more ridiculously busy each time I visit it. We took it nice and slow to the summit as the weather was so hot, but the summit was covered in people wearing flip flops and trainers because the train service has started to run again. Looking around a gift shop at the top of a mountain is a strange experience but it has been done a lot nicer than the tasteless glass dome mockup I saw a few years ago. Anyway I’m back home now and covered in midge bites. Photos will follow once I get them off Helena (photos of the walk, not the bites).

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Tags: Camping, Mountain Walking, Walking