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Snowdonia Backpacking
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About this site:
"Snowdonia Backpacking" has been created to put online my accounts of the multiple-day walks with wild camping that I have done in the National Park every autumn except one since 1981. In The Walks are my reports that tell not only of my appreciation of the Welsh mountains, but also of my trials and tribulations during my self-taught apprenticeship in the wilds.
This is not intended to be a web site that contains lists of routes and directions. These can be found on a number of other sites, some of which I have included on the Links page.
It is not full of pictures either, something else that is more than adequately catered for on other sites, for which see Links again. It wasn't until 2000 that I started taking a 35mm compact camera on my walks, and I only replaced it with with a digital one in 2007. I am currently reconstructing my Photos page - when it is ready I will place a link to it here.
Never having been acquainted with anyone else who goes backpacking, everything I do was learned initially from books and magazines, followed by experience. I live more than 200 miles away from North Wales, so I am not one of the lucky people who can slip out at weekends for a bit of practice in the hills. Nor am I any sort of a super-fit type; I have good stamina but I have always been slightly weaker compared to my contemporaries, and I don't mind admitting I am scared of heights!
Perhaps the contents of Snowdonia Backpacking will inform you, pass on some of my hard-gained know-how and maybe entertain you, but above all I sincerely hope it will fill you with enthusiasm and inspiration, in much the same way as the books I read around 1980 did for me
.
About this site:
"Snowdonia Backpacking" has been created to put online my accounts of the multiple-day walks with wild camping that I have done in the National Park every autumn except one since 1981. In The Walks are my reports that tell not only of my appreciation of the Welsh mountains, but also of my trials and tribulations during my self-taught apprenticeship in the wilds.
This is not intended to be a web site that contains lists of routes and directions. These can be found on a number of other sites, some of which I have included on the Links page.
It is not full of pictures either, something else that is more than adequately catered for on other sites, for which see Links again. It wasn't until 2000 that I started taking a 35mm compact camera on my walks, and I only replaced it with with a digital one in 2007. I am currently reconstructing my Photos page - when it is ready I will place a link to it here.
Never having been acquainted with anyone else who goes backpacking, everything I do was learned initially from books and magazines, followed by experience. I live more than 200 miles away from North Wales, so I am not one of the lucky people who can slip out at weekends for a bit of practice in the hills. Nor am I any sort of a super-fit type; I have good stamina but I have always been slightly weaker compared to my contemporaries, and I don't mind admitting I am scared of heights!
Perhaps the contents of Snowdonia Backpacking will inform you, pass on some of my hard-gained know-how and maybe entertain you, but above all I sincerely hope it will fill you with enthusiasm and inspiration, in much the same way as the books I read around 1980 did for me
.
Some background information:
Born in Rhyl because of World War 2 evacuation, I am not of Welsh blood, and I only lived there till my fifth birthday, when my family moved to the outer London suburbs of Middlesex, where I have remained. The area is good for work, transport and facilities which I would miss if I lived anywhere else in the UK.
Married since the late 1960s, I have two grown up sons, and I worked as a field service engineer from 1975 to 2003, when I had to retire prematurely. My interests are natural history (most particularly ferns), gardening, the countryside, walking, travel, out-of-print books and photography.
I am a very independent person, and although sociable I am also quite happy with my own company, so I would not entertain the thought of going on a long hike or backpacking with another person. My wife? She is a sun worshipper; her personal holidays, as well as the ones we share together, are exclusively to hot countries, so understandably she always declines to accompany me to North Wales!
Some more background is included in my 1981 Prologue & 1st Trip which is on The Walks page.
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