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Snowdon Summit Cafe Update

The 'freedom' of the hills!


Sorry for the delay in this post! During May half term myself and a few friends visited Snowdonia National Park. We tackled the famous Snowdon Horseshoe via the north ridge of Crib Goch during the first day. The place was busier than Oxford Street during the Christmas sales! Anyway, when I finally got near to the summit of Wales' highest mountain I was surprised to see a couple of full sized mechanical diggers. The old cafe has been fully demolished now. I have to say that I didn't hang around long on the summit as between the pneumatic drilling and hundreds of people I headed off to the quieter Y Lliwedd. We spent the next day around Cnicht and didn't see a soul!



The temporary offices and storage above the old summit station.


There are a could of web resources linked to the building of the new cafe:
  • a blog keeps you up-to-date with recent developments and has a photo gallery spanning the entire development
  • this site has details of the developments.
  • http://www.snowdon-summit.co.uk/ detailed site containing information including a summary of the feasibility study, design changes made in response to public concerns and also information about sustainability

I will be using this example as a honeypot tourist site and will get further resources over the summer and winter as I visit the summit. Shame there isn't a web cam! I was also disappointed that there wasn't more information at the summit about the developments.

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  1. Anonymous18 July 2007 at 20:05

    I was there last week. Sadly we can't walk up due to risk assessment, so we take the train, extreme!

    Myself and a colleague did end up in the front with a driver, very interesting, the local viewpoint and an insight into the running of the train.

    To be honest, I don't know which is more risky, going by the train or walking!

    We were taken three quarters of the way up, it wouldn't have been possible anyway to reach the summit due to the rebuilding, as we stepped out the heavens opened and it was like monsoon season.

    I'm glad the cafe is going, it was awful, the new design looks much more appealing... we'll see.

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