Snowdon sideways
View the route on plotaroute.com 7 miles 1100 metres ascent The route I found in the book starts at Blaen-y-Nant, half way up Llanberis pass at a lay-by. The book calls it the Cwm Glas horseshoe. It approaches the knife-edge Crib Goch north ridge by avoiding the sheer cliffs of Dinas Mot via a weakness in its north-west flank. After the much quieter north ridge, it follows the classic horseshoe route along Crib Goch’s very popular east ridge, along to Garnedd Ugain and to Sno