Introduction
Finding the best routes, viewpoints and photographs can be tricky, but not if you join us on our Eryri (Snowdonia) guided mountain walks. Maybe you want to find good viewpoints or places of interest along your walking route. Maybe you want to plan a day’s itinerary based on visiting the most popular spots. Or perhaps you’d like watch sunrise or sunset from a particular summit. Either way, a guide can help keep you safe and comfortable; make your experience more successful and enjoyable, including keeping the right pace; and can make the day a valuable learning experience, including passing on a whole host of useful tips.
Booking and Prices
If you’d like to know more about our Snowdonia guided walks, then see our main page for more details and prices; or have a look at the Calendar for forthcoming “Open” events and see what our clients say about us.
When you are ready, then get in touch to make an enquiry or a booking.
We also guide mountain walks in the Lake District and the Scottish highlands.
Tryfan Guided Walks
Tryfan is famous for a number of reasons, and is a much sought-after summit to complete.
First of all, there is its distinctive shape, instantly recognisable once you know it. Then there is the fact that it is one of the very few peaks in the UK on which you will need to use your hands as well as feet to reach the top. There is no easy ‘path’, which is why many will choose to do Tryfan as a guided mountain walk.
Next, many people will know of the two huge stones, named Adam and Eve, that sit at the summit. The tradition of jumping between them is not to be missed by those with good nerves (in good weather).
Finally (and not strictly ‘walking’), Tryfan is home to many of the country’s best scrambles (such as the North Ridge of Tryfan) and rock-climbs. It really is a mountaineer’s playground. For more on these, have a look at our climbing and scrambling pages.
Guided Walks on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)
There are many walking routes up Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) with a wide range of difficulty and popularity. While we are very happy to guide walks on the very popular routes, and do so often, we also recognise that many people prefer a little more solitude. So we like to discuss your preferences and perhaps end up taking you on one of the quieter routes. The less crowded routes are no less worthwhile, and will allow you to see what is a very fine mountain from more unusual perspectives.
For the more adventurous, there are a variety of scrambling routes on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). These include some that definitely fall into the category of guided scrambles, not mountain walks (ropes and equipment are required). But others are well within the reach of an experienced walker with a head for heights. The classic route is without doubt the Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) Horseshoe. This first takes in the scrambling ridge of Crib Goch, before reaching the summit of Yr Wyddfa. It then continues around in a horseshoe shape to cross the double peaks of Y Lliwedd before descending back to Yr Wyddfa’s lakes.
Other Guided Mountain Walks in Eryri (Snowdonia)
You could be forgiven for thinking that Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) and Tryfan are the only two mountains in Snowdonia, so popular are they. However, the Eryri National Park covers a huge area. In the Glyderau range, Tryfan is only one of the peaks. There are also the fine walking summits of Glyder Fach, Glyder Fawr and Y Garnedd. Across the Ogwen valley is the Carneddau range, which actually includes Wales’ second highest summit, Carnedd Llewellyn. Then there is the Moelwyn range. This much quieter range has a very wild and remote feeling and includes the ‘Welsh Matterhorn’, the peak of Cnicht.
We regularly guide walks and run navigation and scrambling courses in all these other areas. So, if you’d like to see more of what Eryri (Snowdonia) has to offer apart from the enormous queues at the summit of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), then get in touch to ask what we can arrange.
