TheMcWoods

With Lee working shiftwork, our weekends together are pretty precious. We only managed to go camping once this year, but when we did go last month, we certainly lucked out weather-wise.

We usually head out early on a Friday, but as I was teaching the Friday afternoon, we decided that Lee would head out early solo and then our friends and I would travel out early Saturday morning.

We camped at the same fantastic little campsite at the foot of Snowdon that we did last year. It is a basic campsite, but we love that 1) it doesn't allow campervans and 2) it allows fires, which is rather rare. It is first come first served so Lee managed to nab us a lovely spot on the Friday afternoon.





Our friends had never tackled Snowdon, but our fearless leader thought that we could all handle the Watkin path (which starts just below the campsite). The weather was warm but manageable and we plodded up to the top.





The top of the path is fairly hairy with loads of scree - and something that one wouldn't really want to do in bad weather - but we managed to get up (and down) safely.















The top of Snowdon was an absolute zoo, so we only stayed up there long enough to eat our packed lunch. Someone had driven their car up to the top, and it quickly became a bit of a tourist attraction.



Of course one of the best parts about camping with Lee is his tasty fry-ups in the morning. It's worth sleeping on a one-inch matress for one of these bad boys!