Climbing Snowdon / Yr Wyddfa |
 Looking across Llyn Glaslyn at copper mine tailings. The climb up the headwall between Snowdon and Garnedd Ugain begins below the orange mine tailings and heads diagonally left across the slope. Roughly a dozen climbers can just be seen zig-zagging their way up through the broken, rocky band near the middle of the picture. One website I consulted said that “from Glaslyn, although you have walked almost three quarters of the route in terms of distance [from start to summit], you are only half way up the mountain, time wise.” Those guidelines were reasonably accurate: it took Heather and me an hour-and-a-half to get to the foot of the headwall, and it then took just under an hour-and-a-quarter to reach the summit of Snowdon. |