I’ve been putting this off for months.
Back in 1969 or 70, some college friends & myself set off up the popular path from Llanberis, N. Wales, to climb Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa GW/NW-001. Half way up a heavy snowfall forced us to retreat.
From that day until 14th November last I hadn’t returned to re-ascend that route, though I have come down that way & have been up/down all the main routes on the mountain.
So I parked at the Llanberis Community Centre (£8 per day compared with £12 at the close by Council car park) & set off up the ‘big hill’.
Soon I got chatting to a fellow walker who turned out to be Malcolm G6WSF out for a non-SOTA day, he was up from the Kent area for a few days. He said he knew Pete Pennington G4EGQ who years ago ran the correspondence course for the Radio Amateurs Examination, in which I took part.
Unfortunately half way up one of Malcolm’s boots fell apart & he had to abandon the climb. I carried on, past the steepest part after Clogwyn Station & eventually reached the summit, busy as always, though I didn’t bother going up to the trig. point, been there, done that. (Unlike the lemming-like queue of people which sometimes happens, all waiting their turn to have their ‘sacred selfie’ -people have known to wait 45 minutes…madness! Rant over.)
I found my favourite flat stone & set up shop on 2m. 15 contacts followed, the furthest being Darlington in NE England & S2S with Derek G1ZJQ/P on Sighty Crag G/SB-005, supposedly the remotest SOTA peak in England. There is an amusing short poem about Sighty Crag on the database summit reports-not very flattering!(Edited-see Phil G4OBK’s report on Sighty Crag for the poem.)
Anyway, that was that & I plodded down back to the car as dusk fell.
So after some 55 years, this scratch itched & the box ticked! 73 John G0MHF
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Well done John. Great report and photos 
73 Allan
Cracking day for it John, well done.
Lovely report and cracking photographs John. I’m glad that the day went well this time.
73, Kevin
I’ve never seen anything from Snowden so your photos are doubly appreciated. Even when I walked up and down from Llanberis one August day back in the 1970s, visibility was 20 metres. 4 visits now, no views… I could get a complex about it. 
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