Saturday 28th March, Snowdonia

Today I am in North Wales with Estelle, Emma, Jackie, Pauline and Sarah for two days walking. Conditions in Snowdonia today were poor with strong winds and fresh deposits of snow on the paths. We opted to use the Miners Path on the ascent to try and get some shelter from the winds durring the early part of the day and our plan seemed to work. When we joined the Pyg Track conditions worsened and visibilty at time s was poor. The paths were icy in places and lots of windblown snow was present in places.

When we reached the railway line the weather improved slightly for the final walk to the summit although we were not fortunate enough to get any views today. All of the group made it to the summit and we retruned to the car park using the Pyg Track. The weather conditions were improving as we were descending but were still difficult. Snowdon was extremely busy with many hundreds of walkers on the hill and all car parks full. Given the wintery conditions on the mountain many of the groups we seen were ill equiped and look very inexperienced for these conditions.