Central Gully

This bridge was built by miners to provide a short cut to the copper mines on slopes of Lliwedd.

Afon Cwm Llan is a spate river.

Hawthorns stand out against the low contrast background of Cwm Llan in low cloud on a dreich November day. The Watkin path heads up there past the Afon Cwm Llan waterfalls, and straight into the clouds that are starting to bring the level up. The weather might mean a less crowded ascent to Snowdon, but the views would hardly be the most rewarding, so this was a lower-level walk aiming to stay below cloudbase and return to Llyn Dinas via a permissive path to Craflwyn.

Bwlch Cwm Llan gives a good view into Cwm Llan. The Watkin Path to Yr Wyddfa passes through the quarries left of centre - it can just be seen.

A distance of some 10 miles from the camera position, the geography of Cwm Glaslyn and Treath Mawr allows a clear view of the mountain.

The summit of the Snowdon Mountain Railway

Detail of the Ordnance Survey flush bracket benchmark on the topograph on the summit of Snowdon. The Ordnance Survey trigonometrical column was demolished and replaced by a topograph (photograph SH6054 : Topograph on Snowdon Summit); the flush bracket being incorporated into this. When in situ in the original Ordnance Survey column the flush bracket, benchmark number 10684, marked a height of 1086.002m above sea level (Ordnance Datum Newlyn), last levelled in 1961.

The Ordnance Survey trigonometrical column on the summit of Snowdon was demolished and replaced by a topograph; some Ordnance Survey hardware from the trigonometrical column and a meteorological station being incorporated into this. When in situ in the original Ordnance Survey column the flush bracket, benchmark number 10684, marked a height of 1086.002m above sea level (Ordnance Datum Newlyn), last levelled in 1961 (photograph SH6054 : Flush Bracket Benchmark, Snowdon Summit). On a misty day, the three men standing idly chatting on the summit regrettably did not think that people waiting to take photographs was a good enough reason for them to consider moving politely to one side.

A spectacular vista of Glaslyn and Llyn-Llydaw lakes and the Pyg track and miners' track paths and in the distance, the A4086 road.

Looking approximately northeast from Snowdon summit. There was only about a 10-minute wait in the queue.

The Pyg track clings to the side of Crib y Ddysgl and the miners' track passes around Glaslyn. The paths meet just out of view to the left for the final climb. Both paths start from Gorhwysfa on the A4086.

A few visitors out of several thousand on the mountain on a spectacular cloudless July day. The rocks at the summit are part of the bedded pyroclastic formation: igneous bedrock formed between 458.4 and 449 million years ago during the Ordovician period.

Four hikers -- and a seagull -- survey the course of the Snowdon Ranger path in the middle-distance with the peak of Moel Eilio (726 m) farther back. In the far distance is the Menai Strait and Anglesey.