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#Snowdon

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Tariq

Remember those Americans who vilified Snowdon as a traitor ?

I hope they now finally understand

1. He was not a traitor. He was against the imperial behaviour of the USA, both overseas and at home.

2. They need more Snowdons, now more than ever.

snowdon - portrait stylised with diagonal coloured purple and orange regions
#uspol#fascism#usa
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Unthanc

No photos from our walk up #YrWyddfa (#Snowdon) yesterday because I was too frustrated on the climb and seething by the time we reached the summit.

The lower part was mostly great, we walked from Rhyd Ddu on the Snowdon Ranger extension through the quarry before heading up the Snowdon Ranger path proper and didn't see another soul.

Just after the quarry the litter started; food packets, water bottles, cider cans, dog poo bags a lunchbox and a safety blanket. The further we went up the more litter we found and picked up.

By the time we got back down i had filled half of a 65 litre backpack with rubbish, it is so frustrating.

More than frustrating and bordering on rage inducing were the people setting off "party poppers" from the summit to see how far the rubbish would blow or the idiot who spat to see where it would blow! Yeah, the wind was blowing TOWARDS people.

I despair of people sometimes but at least I know there must be other people gathering rubbish or Snowdon and other mountains would be nothing but mounds of rubbish.

Rant over.

#mountains#hiking#Litter
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Rita Singer

Because it's Holy Week and people are gearing up to descend in droves on #Snowdon, here's a reminder from history that it's not really worth the effort:

"Would I had stayed on level ground
And kept the goblet brimming
For on the top here I have found
nor weeds nor wine nor women
Had I but known, no toil were mine
I never would have so done
Give me my mistress & my wine
The Devil may take Snowdon
F. Thompson Jr.
God bless the girls.
R. R. Blackwell"
Snowdon Visitors’ Books,1863–66, #NationalLibraryWales, p.113

For more disgruntled hilarity by historic tourists, here's a full write-up. #OpenAccess #histodons #Wales #Tourism
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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