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Snowdon Traverse
By Dave Mycroft on 05/12/2005 16:06:33
Two of the best routes on the highest mountain in England and Wales combined to give a stonking traverse of the Snowdon massif. A cracking walk.
) Overview: Combine two of the most popular routes to cross the roof of Wales in this traverse of Snowdon from east to west. Maps: Ordnance Survey: Explorer OL17 Online: Streetmap
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No Snow For Snowdon?
By Jon on 17/01/2007 11:39:55
Snowdon could be snowless within 15 years according to scientists studying snowfall patterns on the highest mountain in England and Wales. Best get your crampons out now then...
Wales. No snow on Snowdon? Best get used to it then.... The BBC quotes Bangor University scientists as saying that themountain's snow cover has fallen by about a third in the last tenyears and if current trends continue, the winter norm
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Snowdon Summit Scaffolding Down
By Jon on 23/09/2008 12:28:50
New Snowdon Summit Centre unleashed - what do you think of it?
We couldn't help noticing Alan Bellis's gallery picture of the new Snowdon summit buildingas it nears completion. All scaffolding has been removed and theremaining work on the building front involves 'landscaping the groundsaround it' and 'adding
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Boy Dies In Snowdon Fall
By Jon on 26/10/2007 16:10:00
An 11-year-old has been killed after falling 100 feet from a ridge on Snowdon.
The BBC is reporting that an 11-year-old boy has now died after falling around 100 feet on Snowdon.He was apparently with a group including his father close to Criby Ddysgl, part of the Snowdon Horseshoe route. The BBC story saysthat members
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Snowdon Summit Skeleton Revealed...
By Jon on 22/02/2007 11:56:14
Blogtastic coverage of the new Snowdon Summit building plus the construction process so far.
The steel framework of the new Snowdon Summit building has beenunveiled in a Deeside warehouse where it's been erected as a practicerun before being transported to the top of the highest mountain inEngland and Wales.SnowdoniaActive says
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Another Death On Snowdon
By Jon on 12/02/2009 10:20:05
Body found on Snowdon, rescue above Idwal and Lakes walkers not using axes and crampons report.
More sad news from North Wales where rescuers searching for a missing70-year-old man have found a bodyon Snowdon, the fourthfatality on the mountain in the last ten days and ifWeatherline's fell top reports are correct, walkers areunder
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Snowdon Summit Slum To Go...
By Jon on 21/01/2004 16:04:01
Plans have been approved to replace the delightful cafe come bunker on Snowdon with a new, more sympathetic model reports the BBC
Good news for everyone who regards the bunker-like cafe on the topof Snowdon as a major mountain eyesore; plans to replace it with amore tasteful incarnation have been given the go ahead at last.We covered the proposed plans for a new building some
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Bear Spotted On Snowdon Summit...
By Jon on 18/05/2005 10:42:07
Ursine explorer roams the wide open spaces of Snowdon's summit in fundraising publicity stunt...
Youngest Brit Everest summiteer and world renowned anti-perspirantstar Bear Grylls tackled a slightly lower peak when he hopped a trainto Snowdon summit last week.Grylls was there to launch an international credit card donationfacility
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Kids Clean Snowdon
By Jon on 15/04/2005 11:38:32
If Snowdon's looking particularly tidy this weekend, it's down to the efforts of 25 local school children who spent a day giving the country's highest mountain a good spring clean :-)
Snowdon should be slightly tidier than usual this weekend thanksto 25 Welsh school children who gave the mountain a good spring cleanas part of a Tidy Wales Week.The children, from Dolbadarn Primary School in Gwynedd, hitched alift up the mountain
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Third Snowdon Rescue This Week
By Jon on 23/03/2006 12:54:14
A man was helicoptered off Snowdon after reportedly breaking his ankle in a fall, the third serious accident since last Saturday. Perhaps fortunately, the weekend is forecast to be much milder.
The continuing wintery weather has kept mountain rescue teamsbusy, particularly in North Wales where three injured mountaineershave been rescued from Snowdon in the last five days or so.The latest accidents are in addition to last Friday
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