 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All,
Just an update for this coming Saturday.
Please ensure that you have suitable waterproof clothing and sturdy waterproof walking boots for a day on paths/tracks and possibly cross country.
I will bring compasses and maps for all of you, If you do have your own then please bring them with you on the day.
You will need a packed lunch and hot/cold drink as we will eat on the hill. A small torch or head torch may be an idea as we will probably be heading back at dusk time.
If you can also bring a pen and paper to make notes with you may find that useful.
In short, wrap up warm and dry.
Outlook for Saturday / Rhagolygon ar gyfer Dydd Sadwrn
Starting overcast and mild with drizzly rain, mist and extensive hill fog. The rain will become persistent and heavier by afternoon. However much drier brighter weather will spread from the North late in the afternoon. Strong Southwest winds gusting to 40mph will veer Westerly and ease slightly.
If you have any questions please feel free to call me.
Other than that I look forward to meeting you all on Saturday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mark handford, Hmm. Sounds like a cold front coming through in the afternoon? Maybe it will all happen faster and we'll start off in the brighter drier westerlies..... sounds like a soggy day, otherwise. When I lived in Wales we always had lovely bright dry weather. Everything went to pot after I left.. Extensive hill fog sounds like just the thing for practising navigation though.  See you on Saturday.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, yes, I have a spare pair of gaiters I can bring along if you need 'em.
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phil625sxc, yes, please. Sounds like they'll be essential.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just a heads up. Taken from the met Office site. Looks like we are going to have fun 
Outlook for Saturday / Rhagolygon ar gyfer Dydd Sadwrn
Mostly overcast and mild with outbreaks of drizzly rain and extensive hill fog. Eastern most areas will be drier with hill fog more patchy at times. Gale force southwest winds will gust to 60mph.
Outlook for Sunday / Rhagolygon ar gyfer Dydd Sul
Mostly overcast and mild with bursts of drizzly rain and extensive hill fog. The rain liable to turn more persistent through the day. Fresh west winds gusting to 35mph.
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Well, I've made it home. Wussed out of doing anything but shopping today....but had a great day yesterday. Thanks Mark 
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We had a great day out and I learnt a lot and nice to meet a few more snowheads. Thanks to Mark for organising a fantastic day.
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| Linds wrote: |
| Mark said he thought we had covered about 8kgs............... |
This a walking or eating weekend?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I had a really good weekend. Coming down off the mountain in the dark was a totally new experience to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks very much Mark
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Linds, well done to you and the rest of the team . . . I could be tempted with this next year if it's one again. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just got home. I'd like to add my thanks to Mark. He was an excellent guide and instructor and all I need now is the right sort of compass to go and practice on my own (Mark had lent compasses and maps to those of us without them).
The weather was nothing like as bad as forecast; we scarcely got rained on at all. phil625sxc, many thanks for those gaiters.
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So is that good for a first timer?
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Linds, yes, I'd say it was quite a baptism of fire, with all that bog and stuff. Hope you enjoyed your birthday dinner. By the time we got back down to Betws y Coed and had a shower we couldn't quite face coming all the way back up the valley - we collapsed into the nearest hostelry with Mogs and co.
The following day I felt I needed to go and do some practice and exercises right away, to consolidate what we'd done. Maybe Mark could arrange a 2 day trip sometime next year (at his usual professional rates, rather than a Snowheads freebie....)?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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pam w, no problem, nice to meet you.
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Mark is top. very interested in more advanced course .
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Linds
..... I reckon that we covered 8.25 Km ....
. congratulations ... that's just a tad more than Mt. Everest .... 
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Hi all,
What a great day out with pretty good weather (never trust met forecast for snowdonia )
Im glad you all gained something from the day and I hope that some of the information is now implanted somewhere in your snowheads. Im sure if your ever faced with a bit of a navigation problem, and you have map and compass with you, that you you will remember back to our day out and run through things logically,plus try to remember the 3 D's.
Thanks for all the great feedback that is posted on here and to the personal e-mails I have received. I will reply to you all individually.
It was great to meet you all and I would hope to meet up with you on the snow at some point in the future.
Cheers for now.
Mark
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Can we have a sH gully skiing day in Snowdonia this winter?
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| Scarpa wrote: |
| Can we have a sH gully skiing day in Snowdonia this winter? |
Banana Gully, Hour Glass Gully, Cwm Lloer, The mushroom gardens, all skiable when theres good snow cover with a crap pair of skis that dont mind rocks!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I'm a bit late with my thanks to Mark and all the SH's for a great day out. It is just amazing what Mark can deduce a square inch (sorry, 40mm sq.)of OS map.
Great photos, Phil, thanks. These will be a fine memory esp. for Linds on her first bogwalk.
Yes, a repeat over two days would be really good and don't any of you hold back from booking yourselves via Mark's excellent website,www.snowdonia-adventures.co.uk
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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mark handford, I was actually thinking of Banana as I wrote that
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and I was so glad I had borrowed some waterproof trousers (which the person now dosent want back although I have told her I have washed them 
I'd have loved to have gone on this, although I couldn't have made that date.
