Moel Eilio

Start : Venue: Race starts outside Snowdon Care Home (G.R. 575 600).

Registration: Registration is in the Padarn Hotel on Llanberis High Street from 11:00 am. There are toilets here but no showers, kit can be left here, it is approx half a mile from the start. The route to the Start will be signed.

Parking: There is plenty of parking in and around Llanberis.

Facilities: As above, toilets at registration (not at the start).

Kit: Kit requirements will depend upon the weather. Please be prepared to carry full body cover, map, compass and whistle. If conditions are hot, you are advised to carry fluids as there are no water stations.

Course: Controls are as follows:-
575 600 (start)
563 598 (gate)
556 577 (summit Moel Eilio)
564 566 (summit Foel Gron)
571 568 (Summit Foel Goch)
573 559 (valley head)
586 564 (summit Moel Cynghorion)
578 572 (footpath)
Finish Llanberis Youth Hostel 574 597

The race starts outside Snowdon Care Home at 1:00pm and climbs steeply up a tarmac road for approximately 1 kilometre. The route then continues up a bridal path and through a gate before reaching the open hill side. Canes will mark the route across the heather to the main track up to the summit of Moel Eilio. As the path steepens, there is a fence. Keep this to your right until you reach the stile just before the summit.

The run along the ridge takes in the summits of Foel Gron and Foel Goch and is grassy underfoot. The descent to the valley head is difficult in bad weather. You would be advised to head straight for the fence (as far right as you can go) and follow that down if visibility is poor.

The climb up Moel Cynghorion from the head of the valley is deceptive, longer than you might think! If visibility is bad, follow the fence (now on your left).

The descent from the summit of Moel Cynghorion is well worth a recce if you get the chance. It really is a matter of route choice but there is now a new fence that may affect your line. Keep this fence to your right , there will be high vis marking the place where you need to rejoin the path down Maescwm.

Finally the slog down Maes Cwm which finishes down a steep tarmac road to Llanberis Youth Hostel.