An unpleasant way to go

[Ticktock]

Does the train have this equipment on board? I'm planning a trip that includes Snowden for the October half term.

I really wouldn't bother with the train up. The main reasons being that it doesn't go to the top, and that you don't get an "open return" - you are told which train to get back down. Not done it myself, but inlaws did and from memory you get about 1/2 hour at the station before your return. If you don't get on that train back then you're walking.

If you want to walk you have a number of routes up - if you're going in half term I presume you're taking kids? Depending on age you would probably just want to take the long, gentle walk up from Llanberis - it basically follows the train route. People do it with dogs, pushchairs, etc. I've not taken that route myself, but I think it's about 5 miles. If the weather isn't extreme and the kids are a bit older then you could start from Pen Y Pass and do either the Pyg Track or Miners Track (or one up, the other down) - be warned though, the last stretch of it is basically a massive staircase - my wife and I were having to rest every few flights!

[Troll]

I made it up Snowdon in the rain aged 10 with just a pack of egg & cress butties wrapped in grease proof paper

[d000hg]

How about we just let evolution do it's work?

I don't think you understand evolution.

[Spacecadet]

I made it up Snowdon in the rain aged 10 with just a pack of egg & cress butties wrapped in grease proof paper

and a flare

[doodab]

Is you had bothered to read the OP you would have seen :-

Take crew, survival kit, flares, whistles, food, water.

Is that really so difficult?

I did read the OP. You mentioned having to take crew, survival kit, flares, whistles, food, water and followed that with some whining about red tape, so surprise surprise I thought that was the "more red tape" you were whining about.

[minestrone]

What? no venom pump and signalling mirror?

[BrilloPad]

I did read the OP. You mentioned having to take crew, survival kit, flares, whistles, food, water and followed that with some whining about red tape, so surprise surprise I thought that was the "more red tape" you were whining about.

Just go and sit in the cretin corner with sas.

[doodab]

and flares

Or were they Farahs?

[BrilloPad]

I really wouldn't bother with the train up. The main reasons being that it doesn't go to the top, and that you don't get an "open return" - you are told which train to get back down. Not done it myself, but inlaws did and from memory you get about 1/2 hour at the station before your return. If you don't get on that train back then you're walking.

If you want to walk you have a number of routes up - if you're going in half term I presume you're taking kids? Depending on age you would probably just want to take the long, gentle walk up from Llanberis - it basically follows the train route. People do it with dogs, pushchairs, etc. I've not taken that route myself, but I think it's about 5 miles. If the weather isn't extreme and the kids are a bit older then you could start from Pen Y Pass and do either the Pyg Track or Miners Track (or one up, the other down) - be warned though, the last stretch of it is basically a massive staircase - my wife and I were having to rest every few flights!

The train goes to the top in good weather. Which is about 20 metres from the summit. Though the last climb is ridiculously narrow and dangerous IMO. They should wrap everyone in cotton wool first.....

[doodab]

Just go and sit in the cretin corner with sas.

Or alternatively I could go to Switzerland and walk down a proper mountain instead of a little hill in Wales.

I got some great photos of the paragliders in the valley below me last time.