Snowdonia National Park

Wales

20-22 July 2004


Driving towards Snowdon from our campsite with rainbows, clouds and sunlight		Looking West towards the sea from Snowdon

Crib Goch on the Snowdon horseshoe has a 400m knife-edge ridge		We negotiated Crib Goch in the cloud with a strong wind...

Ominous		Maria passing a chimney with Crib Goch behind

Snowdon (further on) remained in cloud		Maria and Jono

Jono in front of East peak and the 'Watkin's valley'		We did the Snowdon 'Figure of eight' which included descending (far side) and climbing this valley

Returning to the Snowdon valley the sun illuminated the lake		East and West peaks at

This was the very special place where Maria honored me by accepting my hand in marriage. Also a beautiful spot...		Lake, sun and green in Wales

The clouds never lifted from the summit of Snowdon		East and West peaks (the special place was near the col on the right :o)

Anglesey has the town with the longest name in the world...this is the train station		From Great Ormes Head looking back towards Snowdonia

Llandudno had a huge beach front lined with Victorian style hotels		Great Ormes Head

Rhos on Sea		The ring

For the two weeks we were both in England in July 2004 we decided to do a trip to climb Snowdon in North West Wales. Although the climb up Snowdon in cloud was hair-raising at times we were later illuminated with beautiful sunshine through the clouds. The 21st July was particularly special as Maria and I got engaged half way down at a beautiful spot. We camped in Anglesey then toured the North Wales coast before visiting Oxford on our journey back. Plenty of celebrations followed...