This weekend I headed off to Wales on a Thursday evening , arriving at Snowdon Ranger Youth Hostel around 9pm. The drive through Snowdonia was pleasant and it made a change not to have to carry all my stuff, unlike the earlier trip to the Cairngorms.
This was the first time at this hostel, which was a pleasant enough place. A good location for the west side of Snowdon. Not too far from Rhydd Ddu where I was staying at the end of February.
On Friday I headed down to Beddgelert and then walked up to Moel Hebog. The route started at the Royal Goat Hotel and then passed through the area now occupied by the Welsh Highland Railway. Once past this the route follows the road to just before the farm and then heads out across the open moorland. The gradual climb steepened & passed through an area of simple scrambling and scree. The summit was shrouded in mist and covered in a fresh layer of snow, which indicated no one had been up since it settled.
After locating the trig point the path descends down the north side alongside the drystone wall.
The route then passed through a cleft in the rock and up to Moel yn Ogol and then mostly along a ridge to Moel Lefn. This was mostly the same as the first day of my ML practice expedition. The difference was today was wet and claggy whereas then it was boiling hot and parched. On that occasion we had headed down to the disused mines and camped near the reservoir. This provided my first and so far only experience with ticks!
This time the route headed into Beddgelert Forest, which proved to be a nightmare. The footpath through the forest was a cross between quagmire, bog and stream bed. After finally extracting myself from its grip it was a short walk along the road into the village.
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