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Snowdonia Slate Trail is a long distance footpath, running 83 miles (134 km) as a circular route around Northern Snowdonia starting from Bangor. [1] ...
Snowdon is designated a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna, and is located within Snowdonia National Park. The rocks that form Snowdon were produced by volcanoes in the Ordovician period, and the massif has been extensively sculpted by glaciation, forming the pyramidal peak of Snowdon and the arêtes of Crib Goch and Y Lliwedd.
Yr Aran is a mountain peak on a ridge radiating south from Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain, with views of the summit of Snowdon, Moel Hebog and the Nantlle Ridge.It has an elevation of 747.2 m (2,451 ft) and a prominence of 235 m (771 ft).
Snowdonia: 429m Crimea Pass: Welsh: Bwlch y Gorddinan: A470: Caernarfonshire & Merionethshire: Gwynedd: Snowdonia: 385m Bwlch y Groes: English translation: pass of the cross. Commonly known as Hellfire Pass. minor road between Llanuwchllyn and Dinas Mawddwy: Merionethshire: Gwynedd: Snowdonia: 545m Highest paved pass in North Wales. Gospel Pass
The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR; Welsh: Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a narrow gauge rack-and-pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that travels for 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales. [4] A return journey, including the stop at the summit, takes 2½ hours. [5]
Crib Goch is classed as a Welsh 3000er and is also often climbed as the first part of the Snowdon Horseshoe, which goes on over Garnedd Ugain, Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, before returning to Pen-y-Pass. Crib Goch is one of the wettest spots in the United Kingdom, with an average of 4,473 millimetres (176.1 in) rainfall a year over the past 30 years. [7]
The Snowdon Horseshoe is the name given to the semi-circular ring of ridges and peaks on Snowdon's (Yr Wyddfa) eastern side, i.e. facing down Dyffryn Mymbyr towards Capel Curig. The peaks in the Horseshoe are those of Y Lliwedd, Snowdon, Garnedd Ugain and Crib Goch. The Snowdon Horseshoe viewed from Dyffryn Mymbyr in early spring.
The Snowdonia Way is an 97 mi (156 km) long-distance footpath in Snowdonia, Wales from Machynlleth in the south to Conwy in the north. [1] ...