Navigation Excercise Snowdon Horseshoe

Scenario :
You are on a walking holiday in North Wales and are staying at
the Youth Hostel at Pen-y-Pass.
Today you have decided to walk the Snowdon Horseshoe.

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O/S Outdoor Leisure no. 17 Snowdonia North

O/S Land ranger no. 115 ~ Snowdon
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Leaving the Youth Hostel at give the grid reference
................................... (A)

You are at a height of
.................................... (B)

You walk along a footpath known as the Pyg Track. You follow this path until it joins the track at give the grid reference ...................................... (C)

Follow this track up to Crib Goch and then along Crib y Ddysgl. The track now merges with a footpath.

Continue along this path until you reach the summit of Snowdon at give the grid reference
................................... (D)

The height of Snowdon is
.................................... (E)

What is the overall height difference between here and your starting point
....................................(F)

From the summit you have a good view of all around you, name the feature at 621 546
...................................(G)

From the summit follow the path until it forks left, walking along the left fork. The footpath soon merges with a track at give the grid reference
...................................(H)

Follow this track up to Y Lliwedd. Name the two peaks, and the give the distance between them
...................................(I)

Continue along this path, keeping Llyn Llydaw to your left. Just after you pass a building on your left at give the grid reference ...................................(J)

The overall distance you have walked today is
...................................(L)

The track once again joins the footpath. Follow this path around Llyn Teyrn back to the Youth Hostel at Pen-y-Pass.

	Snowdonia is a huge area with lots of mountains, the Snowdon massif consist of the highest peaks in the range and includes several good walks. the most famous of these is the Snowdon horseshoe walk encompassing three of the fourteen separate 3000 foot peaks
	Snowdon summit station just below the mountain summit at 3560 feet Above - The railway station taken on Christmas day 1986, hence a longer lunch break than usual to admire the view and sample a little Champagne
	in the moon light from the point where the Llanberis path, Miners path and the Pyg track meet. taken one winter day Jan 1998
	another picture of where the Llanberis path, the Miners path, & the Pyg track meet taken earlier the same day in Jan 1998 the famous pointed summit shape of Snowdon can clearly be seen
	the view of Crib y Ddysgl 3493 feet from Snowdon the zig zags at the top of the miners path can be clearly seen