Sunday 7th September, Snowdon, North Wales

Today is day 2 of the Discover Adventure training course in North Wales, fortunately the hostel had a good drying room and most of the kit except boots were dried overnight The ladies put their hairdryers to good use in an attempt to dry their boots.

Our plan for today is to ascend Snowdon via the Miners track and return on the Pyg track. The weather had also made a remarkable improvement overnight, the rain was now vertical instead of horizontal.






We set off from Pen-y-Pass and very soon met a herd of wild goats grazing by the path who kindly posed for a few pictures. We carried on to the Causeway to find that it was partially under water and we had to go paddling again to continue our trek.







This route has been much improved in recent years and made for easy walking up to the ruins at Glaslyn. For here we climbed steeply up the side of the cwm to the junction of the track and the railway from Llanberis. A short walk uphill brought us to the summit of Snowdon.





After a quick team photo we headed off back down the hill to the cafe for a warm cup of coffee.











The sun threatened to come out as we walked down and the rain even stopped long enough for us to get changed in the car park.