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!
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.