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Old 09-04-2009, 03:46 PM
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Re: Mt Snowdon.

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Originally Posted by kiltoncomp View Post
seeing snowdon on a bad day makes you think about the slate miners who used the miners track across Snowdon to get home to the outlying villages they lived in,
according to info from the slate museum at the bottom of snowdon, they used it as a short cut and saved themselves several hours on the journey home,
imagine going home in howling winds and rain across Snowdon after a days work in the slate mines working with candle light!!,
its a difficult enough place to be in when the weather is fine and climbers have all the right gear these days, tough guys indeed.
rather them than me,

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