Feature · 3 Jul 2019
6 of the best valley walks to get to know Snowdonia
North Wales is a landscape that has been hundreds of millions of years in the making. Through volcanoes, moving continents, Ice Ages and the industrialisation and use of the...
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Article · 25 Aug 2018
Why cycling the Lôn Las Cymru should be on your to-do list
Richard Barrett thinks the Lôn Las Cymru long-distance cycle route should be on your bucket list, and here’s why.
Article · 2 Sept 2017
The Snowdon Horseshoe - a classic route
One of the benefits of being in a country full of once-glaciated mountains is that they throw up an excellent variety of narrow ridges. Often it is possible to walk two of these mountain arêtes in a day, combining the ridges with the main mountain...
Feature · 5 Sept 2016
Top 10 Hillwalks in Shropshire
Guidebook author John Gillham shares his ten favourite hillwalking spots in Shropshire. Shropshire’s not a place associated with charts or hill lists but these hills deserve to be celebrated.
Article · 21 Jul 2016
A few Welsh words for hillwalkers
A few Welsh words for hillwalkers from author Terry Fletcher. It's always good manners to learn a few new words when you visit a different country and your reception is usually friendlier if you make the effort, even if you don't need to.
Article · 24 May 2016
How to walk the Welsh 3000s
Fancy a more interesting and more challenging alternative to the 3 peaks? Terry Fletcher, author of the Cicerone guidebook to mountain walking in Snowdonia, introduces the Welsh 3000s - a great challenge for a weekend in Wales.
Feature · 8 May 2016
Snowdonia Walking: The Nantlle Ridge
Looking for a ridge walk in Snowdonia away from the chatter and the chaos of summer crowds? A place only the ravens seem to know of? Terry Fletcher has the answer: the ever quiet, always queue-free Nantlle Ridge, as described in Cicerone's Mountain...