I recieved an email today whilst I was out trying to find a suitable hard sport route in the quarries to climb. Generally I seem to be to short to climb, them, although I have found one that I might be able to jump through the long reaches. Anyway, Doug Blair the senior engineer from Snowdon Mountain Railway had been out flying, and managed to take a couple of dramatic shots of Sno0wdon. These images are from Sunday, and there is still just as much bullet hard, icy snow up there.
One image show just hown much snow still remains at the summit, the other shows the serious nature of following the railway tracks down, The real danger area is where the railway track dips into the shadow just right of centre of the images. The cliff below is what people slip down, as the slope gets ever steeper, so once you start sliding the chances of stopping are virtually nill.
I suspect that ice will still be about on this section come the weekend, and after a spate of near-misses it would be a shame for anyone to come a cropper following the railway track down Snowdon. In fact unless nyou are equipped with ice axes and crampon, and know how to use them then the summit of Snowdon is probably a place you want to avoid for the time being.
