Back Yard Biking.

After a year of talking about biking Snowdon with Simon and Kelv I actually found a day when enough people wanted to do it and the weather was on our side. Amazingly it was also bank holiday Monday. We all meet up in met up at Boulder for 4 o’clock to roll down the hill to the Llanberis high street and the Dol Peris to meet up with the rest. After a couple of hours of mostly pushing to Snowdon Summit the crowd had subdued enough to ride and start the descent. If anyone else is thinking of doing this ride any time soon let me know as I am definitely up for another go.

Kelv and Simon pushing bikes up the stepped section.

Kelv looking back down towards Llyn Padarn and home.
Simon with the Llanberis Pass and the Slate Quarries in the background.
Brian, his two lads and Kelv at the back on the way down from Snowdon Summit.

On the way down with the Mountain Railway visable.

Simon setting the pace.

Mark on the lower sections of the Llanberis Path.

Brian followed by his lads with Cloggy in the background.

Snowdon makes it into the news ....... again.

Normally stories like the ones below make it round the village of Llanberis quite quickly, seemingly there is something making the news from the mountain every week. It often seems to be charity walking groups making the headlines for the wrong reasons causing as much trouble as the good they planned to do. This is often because they lack any significant mountain experience or leadership and more often than not, in my experience of working with these groups, being very poorly equipped.

This weekend I was not at home in the village to hear any stories first hand but read them in the Sunday Telegraph on the ferry from the Isle of Man on the way home from my brother’s wedding, Pictures and details of the wedding to follow shortly.

Charity climb team member left behind.

The harm caused by mass organised mountain accents.

Lazy Night.

Not exactly my exploits but the below pictures are taken by me, they show Mark kayaking the Cwm Llan waterfalls. I was being lazy this night and did not fancy carrying my boat for half an hour up the Watkin Path.