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Climbing Snowdon on Friday
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over a year ago
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Great idea. I did it last week. First time I've seen it clear. Amazing views, but when I say climb, I mean scrambled up the Pyg Track. At least I didn't use the train! |
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over a year ago
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me 
You mean walking up it not climbing "
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering"
Still not climbing |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing "
depends on your previous experience and perspective.... a scramble /clamber equals climb to some and a walk to others  |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
depends on your previous experience and perspective.... a scramble /clamber equals climb to some and a walk to others "
Well it's definitely a walk and not to difficult at that
But if the op wants to claim he's "climbed " Snowdon then so be it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing "
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it. |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it. "
As you say walking |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it. "
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm "
That's using your hands. Defo still climbing it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm "
Get pushed |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm
Get pushed "
Not when I'm in the wheelchair |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm
Get pushed
Not when I'm in the wheelchair "
Then you're wheeling up not climbing. |
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm
Get pushed
Not when I'm in the wheelchair
Then you're wheeling up not climbing. "
Can't wait to get my new off-road tyres  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
Definition of climbing: to go up or ascend using hands and feet or feet only.
So walking up it is still climbing it.
What do you do if you get your arse up a mountain in a wheelchair? Hmmmmmmm
Get pushed
Not when I'm in the wheelchair
Then you're wheeling up not climbing.
Can't wait to get my new off-road tyres "
Have tyres will travel.  |
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them "
Fuck knows what I do, but it involves crutches, crunching of joints and swearing |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them "
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards."
Then why do people say I've just walked up 5 flights of stairs |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards.
Then why do people say I've just walked up 5 flights of stairs "
They may do so but you still haven't answered why literature has used "climbing" as a legitimate term for ascending stairs since long before we were born. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards.
Then why do people say I've just walked up 5 flights of stairs
They may do so but you still haven't answered why literature has used "climbing" as a legitimate term for ascending stairs since long before we were born."
Literature is now your argument.
When did you last hear a cloud saying it was lonely |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm sure Edmund would have taken slight offence at you comparing his climbing of Everest to taking yourself upstairs to bed
But ....."
I believe he knew the nuances of the English language well enough to not be quite so easily offended.
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"I'm sure Edmund would have taken slight offence at you comparing his climbing of Everest to taking yourself upstairs to bed
But .....
I believe he knew the nuances of the English language well enough to not be quite so easily offended.
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You believe you climb Snowdon too so..,. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards.
Then why do people say I've just walked up 5 flights of stairs
They may do so but you still haven't answered why literature has used "climbing" as a legitimate term for ascending stairs since long before we were born.
Literature is now your argument.
When did you last hear a cloud saying it was lonely "
Therein lies the beauty of the language, lest we kill with pedantry. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Climbing the stairs is a legitimate claim. I certainly don't use 'climbing' gear to do that.
I usually walk up them
Climbing them is a legitimate claim, is it not or has literature been incorrect this entire time? You are challenging the notion of climbing as opposed to walking upwards.
Then why do people say I've just walked up 5 flights of stairs
They may do so but you still haven't answered why literature has used "climbing" as a legitimate term for ascending stairs since long before we were born.
Literature is now your argument.
When did you last hear a cloud saying it was lonely
Therein lies the beauty of the language, lest we kill with pedantry."
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"Someone will have to rewrite The Sound of Music. No more "climb every mountain", sorry folks 
Who said people don't climb mountains "
If Hillary would be offended about climbing Snowdon (a mountain) then obviously we can't sing climb EVERY mountain.
Maybe "Climb The Majority of the Mountains (but not Welsh ones)"  |
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"I'm sure Edmund would have taken slight offence at you comparing his climbing of Everest to taking yourself upstairs to bed
But .....
I believe he knew the nuances of the English language well enough to not be quite so easily offended.
You believe you climb Snowdon too so..,."
I don't believe I have stated anything of the sort. I am merely debating your assertion that Mount Snowdon cannot be climbed whereas Mount Everest can be. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Someone will have to rewrite The Sound of Music. No more "climb every mountain", sorry folks
Who said people don't climb mountains
If Hillary would be offended about climbing Snowdon (a mountain) then obviously we can't sing climb EVERY mountain.
Maybe "Climb The Majority of the Mountains (but not Welsh ones)" "
I never said Edmund would be offended by someone climbing Snowdon but possibly likening going to bed as climbing stairs |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm sure Edmund would have taken slight offence at you comparing his climbing of Everest to taking yourself upstairs to bed
But .....
I believe he knew the nuances of the English language well enough to not be quite so easily offended.
You believe you climb Snowdon too so..,.
I don't believe I have stated anything of the sort. I am merely debating your assertion that Mount Snowdon cannot be climbed whereas Mount Everest can be. "
I never said you can't climb Snowdon |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
Yuk"
Do you think Edmund Hillary would have eaten hash browns? |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
Yuk
Do you think Edmund Hillary would have eaten hash browns?"
Good god no |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
Yuk
Do you think Edmund Hillary would have eaten hash browns?"
It's a known fact that he ate two of them before climbing Snowdon |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
Yuk
Do you think Edmund Hillary would have eaten hash browns?
Good god no "
Maybe more of a kedgeree kinda guy? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
Yuk
Do you think Edmund Hillary would have eaten hash browns?
Good god no
Maybe more of a kedgeree kinda guy?"
Now that's posh |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous! "
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous! "
Camped by it for my stag do. |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous!
Camped by it for my stag do."
You had a camp stag do. How cool. |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous! "
I'm originally from near Betws |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous!
I'm originally from near Betws "
I knew it...... |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous!
Camped by it for my stag do.
You had a camp stag do. How cool. "
I thought so. My mates not so much after the second mountain |
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"There used to be a place in Betws-y-Coed that did huge hash browns. Perfect for before you climb/walk/drive/cycle/get the train up Snowdon.
I love Betws-y-Coed. The river is gorgeous!
Camped by it for my stag do.
You had a camp stag do. How cool.
I thought so. My mates not so much after the second mountain "
Who was mountain who |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Is it a good idea or a great idea?
And who's coming with me
You mean walking up it not climbing
If you take in Crib Goch.... you need to do a bit of clambering
Still not climbing
depends on your previous experience and perspective.... a scramble /clamber equals climb to some and a walk to others
Well it's definitely a walk and not to difficult at that
But if the op wants to claim he's "climbed " Snowdon then so be it. "
Someone took a shit in your morning cereals or what |
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"Crib Gock needs treating with respect. Someone fell from there and died last December. "
That happens with depressing regularity. The scrambling on Crib Goch is not technically difficult, it's the lowest grade of scrambling there is and we'll within the physical capability of most people. However there is a lot of exposure- places where a fall will have serious if not fatal consequences) and it is very committing - that is there is no escape from the route, you either finish it or down climb what you've done. It is also reasonably long - particularly as there is a decent stretch of lower grade stuff up Crib-y-Ddysgl just when you think you've finished giving a total of around a kilometre of the kind of terrain most people will feel uncomfortable on. More recently there is the added danger of crowding. There's a semi permanent queue that forms around the most exposed section just after the pinnacles (and pretty much any other tricky bits) which encourages people to take a harder line so as not to have to wait 20 mins while someone clearly out of their depth moves 10 meters.
Despite all this it remains one of the best grade 1 scrambles in the country and its popularity is understandable.
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Been up Miners and Pyg but don’t think the Llanberis path will be easy either. The first couple of miles will really test you.
Never done Crib Goch (check out YouTube for a video called ‘stuck on Crib Goch, Snowdon’) but during the summer it’s regarded as a tough and dangerous route but with care it’s possible. However during winter you’d definitely be taking a big risk.
The cafe at the top is well worth a visit (if it’s open) and a good place to shelter.
Enjoy |
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"Been up Miners and Pyg but don’t think the Llanberis path will be easy either. The first couple of miles will really test you.
Never done Crib Goch (check out YouTube for a video called ‘stuck on Crib Goch, Snowdon’) but during the summer it’s regarded as a tough and dangerous route but with care it’s possible. However during winter you’d definitely be taking a big risk.
The cafe at the top is well worth a visit (if it’s open) and a good place to shelter.
Enjoy "
I've heard the cafe is closed all year this year due to work being done on the train tracks so they're not running to the top meaning staff/supplies can't be taken up. |
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