A couple of months ago we decided to climb Mount Snowdon. Our kids are 11 and almost 8, they both have been doing rock climbing and bouldering for several years. It was time to take them up a real mountain. MrB booked a cottage just outside a weird & wonderful ‘private’ town of Portmeirion and when the first weekend of the school holidays rolled up, we packed the car with food and hiking kit. And just in case more food. The weather forecast looked pretty good for the Saturday climb but MrB’s has had one or two near death experiences up in the mountains so now he packs All The Kit to be ready for anything. Our hiking day backpacks had lots of layers, hats, gloves, scarves and lots of food and water. None of us had hiking boots but trail sneakers worked just fine (might have been a different story if it had rained). We got a little map of all the Snowdon paths and chose the one that was the shortest, 10km round trip and with least elevation gain. It was the Watkin path. To make the story short, Dorrigo Dinky Maps was very wrong about the information about the […]
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