Bx Angelsey camp in spring? Proposed W/E 30th April

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:59 pm

Well, I might take the train up (and back down). Unless it's possible to drive? I'll probably have a little smooch around whilst there's the opportunity and might do a bit of house-hunting. I wanna a pig and some chickens an' a big ol' cow and then I can live off the fat of the land. Shucks!

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:15 pm

scarecrow wrote:Well, I might take the train up (and back down). Unless it's possible to drive? I'll probably have a little smooch around whilst there's the opportunity and might do a bit of house-hunting. I wanna a pig and some chickens an' a big ol' cow and then I can live off the fat of the land. Shucks!

Hot dang! I sure can smell banjos!!!!

Squeeeeal piggeah!

(If this stunt comes off as we seem to be planning (civvy style

) and you DO get a train up - I can pick you up from the Station at Holyhead)

Post by **Defender110** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:37 pm

Linegeist wrote:
Hot dang! I sure can smell banjos!!!!

Squeeeeal piggeah!

I got a canoe!

Linegeist wrote:
(If this stunt comes off as we seem to be planning (civvy style ) and you DO get a train up - I can pick you up from the Station at Holyhead)

Think he's referring to the Snowdon Mountain Railway after arrival.

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:59 pm

Where did this sudden fetish for clambering up mountains come from?

I'm kind've working on the assumption that any weekend, however planned, will revolve around BBQ food, beer, and nattering about BX's ad nauseam .......

Sounds good to me - I figure on walking up Snowdon on the way - I'm thinking the Thursday before, poss heading for the coast in the evening and getting a B&B for the night then heading to Anglesey to make camp on the Friday.

I am BXless but more than up for Snowdon, a word of advice parking at Pen y pass which is the logical start point for the PYG / Miners track is £10 per day so it may not be an ideal meeting point for several cars.

The layby at the bottom of the hill next to the Pen y Gwryd hotel is £4 a day.

Great - and thanks for the heads-up on the parking costs.

My pencilled-in plan is to call in to see my folks in South Wales earlier in the week - my cousin Michael will be joining me for Snowdon but will be driving back afterwards (so there'll be 2 cars to park anyway). Then after the weekend wander home when the mood takes me - possibly taking in Cader Idris on the way

Post by **Defender110** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:06 pm

'The locals claim that the mountain is haunted, and that anyone who spends the night on top of Cader Idris will wake up either a madman, a poet or drive a BX. Different legends surround the large 'hill', and one of the earliest claims that the giant Idris lived there. Three large stones rest at the foot of the mountain, and legend says that Idris got angry once and kicked them, sending them down the mountain.'

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:08 am

Interesting info - thanks Kevan.

The locals claim that the mountain is haunted,

Ah - someone to chat with then

Dollywobbler · Post by **Dollywobbler** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:28 am

Sounds like fun, but can't do the Easter weekend.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:36 pm

Defender110 wrote:
Linegeist wrote:
Hot dang! I sure can smell banjos!!!!

Squeeeeal piggeah!
I got a canoe!

Linegeist wrote:
(If this stunt comes off as we seem to be planning (civvy style ) and you DO get a train up - I can pick you up from the Station at Holyhead)
Think he's referring to the Snowdon Mountain Railway after arrival.

I was

I'll be coming by Tesco Recovery most likely

EDIT: but thanks for the kind offer, Bob

Vanny · Post by **Vanny** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:28 pm

Nobody fancies the Horseshoe trail then? Doesn't take too long, and it's mostly off the tourist track!

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:56 pm

Vanny wrote:Nobody fancies the Horseshoe trail then? Doesn't take too long, and it's mostly off the tourist track!

This one Vanny?

Vanny · Post by **Vanny** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:03 pm

No no, thats the Horseshoe Pass, and i did indeed mean the Horseshoe Trail,

http://www.trekkingbritain.com/snowdonthehorseshoe.htm

it involves scenes like this;

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:28 pm

The last time I did stuff like that, I was wearing a baggy green suit and was getting paid lots of dosh to do it.

Anyone that volunteers to do that kind of thing for no good reason needs a healthy dose of close-in phrenology IMHO!

Can we have a "Drinking beer lying down" competition?

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:34 pm

That pic is misleading. That's cigarette smoke and the hill's a pile of rubble outside the pub. This is after 11 pints of Scruttocks.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:46 pm

Will there be parking and a caff?

Vanny · Post by **Vanny** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:54 pm

Philip Chidlow wrote:That pic is misleading.

It is rather, there is a 50 to 60ft shear drop on the right of the ridge, which is why they are all on the left i imagine.