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The Welsh call Snowdonia, the Eagles Nesting Place, and how appropriate for a region that is scenically one of the glories of Britain.  The wild mountains of the Snowdonia National Park are notched in places like a battlemented tower, with high passes and craggy peaks.  Sheer precipices plummet into valleys which sparkle with wood-fringed lakes and cascading waterfalls.

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The 3000ft attendant peaks of Snowdon, Glyder and Carnedds are where the first Everest expeditions trained and today provide a daily challenge and excitement to  any mountain walker or scrambler.  More entwined in legend, is the Arthurian legend, of when King Arthur sailed away to Avalon on a boat that ascended from the copper blue lakes of Lyn Llydaw; set in the shadow of Snowdon.

Pentre Castle    Pentre_Castell.jpg (16415 bytes)                                    up_steps.jpg (32659 bytes)    Lyn Padarn walk