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I walked up it with CUSAGC in the snow one winter, but I can no longer remember which path we used.

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I think 7 years ago you told me it was up the Pig and down the Miners, BICBW

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I think that was our plan if the bus from Rhyd Dhu wasn't plausible.

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You've just wrecked my mental image of you and

emperor riding pigs up Snowdon.

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I want your icon!

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:-) Feel free to adopt it, I grabbed and resized it from a blog post at Echidne of the Snakes, and it goes so well with your username!

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I went up for the first (and so far only) time on a beautiful sunny day in May 2007. Crib Goch was the first ridge walk I ever did and I was so proud of myself for doing it.

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I've been a short way up Snowdon, but never to the top, or even half-way. I couldn't say any more detail than that.

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I may have been up Snowdon by train as a child - I'd have to ask my mum though and it would be a long time ago, I certainly don't remember it.

Technically our route down was only *partly* by Snowdon Ranger - we took a left before that reaches the road for an alternative route to Rhyd Dhu which takes in the quarry tips. It was a bit boggy in places but rather good fun. And then we stopped for a pint in the pub before getting the bus back to the Pen-y-Pass carpark (and then another bus back to Betws-y-Coed).

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First time I walked up and down (at age 15), second time (with infirm parent) I used the train.

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I see from the comments that `Pig' is not, in fact, ridden.

(S)

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It's often spelled "Pyg" too.

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I went up Snowdon several times as a child but forget the actual number; always by the easiest walking track (Which I think Llanberis) in both directions (boooooring). I may have been carried up it in the baby-carrying rucksack but I'm not sure.

I'd quite like to try the other routes at some point in my life. Also I'd like to try the Snowdon Race; but I think it is probably rather beyond me.

You omit "on a bicycle" and "jumping off".

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And 'by stretcher', 'by sedan chair', 'snowboarding', 'up Cloggy' and many many other options...

[I don't think you're allowed to take a bicycle up, are you?]

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Oh, not sure. I thought they sometimes had mountain biking races up it, maybe I'm wrong.

Do people base jump off Snowdon? it seems like the sort of thing people might do.

Cloggy?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clogwyn_Du%27r_Arddu

Yay, climbing :-)

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Yay climbing!

(are all the others walking paths then?)

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Technically, Crib Goch is a grade 1 scramble, and there are some awesome climbs up Y Lliwedd as well as the path, so a pedant might tick that for the climbs.

Obviously 'Train!', 'Helecopter' and 'Ski-ing' are not walking paths

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You omit "on a bicycle" and "jumping off".

There should be a law requiring every sufficiently big mountain to have a banister running all the way from its summit, so you can slide down it once you've got up there.

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You've forgotten 'car' as a way up as per recent news story, too!

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As if I wasn't wasting enough time wistfully thinking about mountaineering, rather than taking the tram to the archives each day, you have to go and reminded me of how nice North Wales is. The only time I'm likely to get anywhere near Snowdon this year is going to a conference in Bangor.

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:-(

[Was your route up Y Lliwedd one of the climbs? Enquiring minds want to know!]

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Sadly I've never climbed at Lliwedd - just wandered along the top. I've never climbed on Cloggy either - all the routes are either too hard or too wet for me, though I have scrambled down Eastern Terrace (a very greasy mod). Most of the climbing I've done in Wales, summer and winter, was near Tryfan - particularly at Idwal. I seem to have gone up Snowdon by a variety of unorthodox routes you don't list (like coming from Cwm Glass), but I've never used a rope there in anger.

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I really can't remember - I've been up it several times by several different routes, but I'm not sure how many or which.

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I went up and back via the Rhydd Ddu track in 1990 (I think) and the second time we used the Snowdon Horseshoe to get down, but you don't appear to list it. I guess it has another name.

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The snowdon horseshoe is traditionally up crib goch and then down y lliwedd (although I'm sure if you walked up y lliwedd and down crib goch that would still count as walking the horseshoe :-) )

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Are you sure, isn't that putting the shoe before the horse?

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Suffice to say I've been up it under my own steam, although deprived of the view from the peak. I don't know and don't care which path it was. I prefer a. riding and b. lakes, so wouldn't waste another day on it :D

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I like that Train! has an ! after it. That is all.

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Oh, I think I've stood at the foot of Snowdon but not much further. I was more interested in the contents of the opposite mountain.

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[x] I can't remember...

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I *think* I went up Pig and down Miners. The plan had been to walk up and get the train down, since I had never climbed/walked a mountain ever before. We got to the top, found out the train was off that day due to bad weather, and I think I actually had a little cry!

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I can't remember how many times I've been up, I think four, but I could be out in either direction.

I think I've used Pig and Miners judging by the map.

Also, I've been up when it was snow-covered at the summit (and in dense fog) - does that get bonus points?

Edited Date: 2012-03-21 08:44 pm (UTC)

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I can't really remember but I've guessed something like the real answer!

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D'oh, I've just realised which icon I *should* have used when commenting on this post. (That was last April)

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As well as going all the way up and down, I've done loops of Pyg/Miners and Llanberis/railway track which each go 3/4 of the way up and return another way. This occurs when I go in winter when there is much ice/snow and little daylight.

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Once to the top when I was relatively young. Once partway up when I was very young. Both on foot, but I'd have to ask

keith_underdown which routes! Probably Llanberis

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