#camping snowdonia

[alexmurison]

Wild camping under the haze amongst the heather filled mountain side. Llyn Hywel, Eryri National Park

[vintagecamping]

Suzuki GT750 at a campsite at the foot of Snowdon at Llanberis

Wales

1976

[bikepackinguk]

I've spent a lot of time last year riding past and around some very pretty mountains, but it's been far too long since I've headed up one, so it's off to North Wales!

The weather is about usual for Snowdonia for this time of year, meaning a good deal of wind and rain, but there's plenty of snow visible higher up. Hopefully the wind won't be too unkind in the morning!

It's also nice to be camping with my main tent (Vango Spectre 300) rather than my lil stealthy one-person tent for a change, so I can fit in a few luxuries like a decent camp bed. And it's been freshly re-waterproofed to provide a good shield from the elements. With luck a good night's sleep will allow me to get up to Pen-Y-Pass early tomorrow and crack at it.

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I had some annual leave to use up and was reaching Spider Jerusalem levels of If I Don't Get Away From People And Up A Mountain I Cannot Be Responsible For My Actions. So I impulsively booked a two-day mountaineering course at Moel Siabod. I've also got my eye on Glyder Fach and Llynnau Mymbyr as extracurricular activities.

Me: aw shit I'm arriving at Betws-y-Coed two minutes after the hourly bus to my campsite leaves.

Also me: BETWS-Y-COED RAILWAY STATION HAS A PIZZERIA WITH MULTIPLE VEGAN OPTIONS NEVER MIND I'LL JUST PUT UP MY TENT IN THE CAR PARK.

I think the places in this post are pronounced "Moil Shabbod" "Glidder Vach", "Cthlinnow* Mumbeer" and "Bettooss Ee Coid" but don't trust me on that.

*As in "ow, the lake monster bit me"

[blade-ranger-301]

Piston Peak

So, as mentioned previously in the character sheet, any of my works, art, fanfics, etc will all be based in the UK 🇬🇧

This is just a headcanon that I have. There's not much logic or evidence to back this up or support it as canon. It's just a fun little headcanon of mine. Blade, to me, would make such a good Brit. He's got that morning grumpiness, the intense stoicism, the bad habit of saying "alright" even though he might not be, and he would definitely swear like a brit too. But also, he's hardworking and down to earth.

So, with that, Piston Peak is going to be set in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I've not yet decided if the park will have it's own geographical location or if it's going to replace an already existing one.

Here is the official map for Pistion Peak:

Piston Peak will still have all the features from the movie; V6 Valley, Whitewall Falls, the small basin where the PPAA team is located, etc, but outside of V6 Valley and around the outskirts will be the rest of the park. It will contain features such as lakes, rivers, reservoirs, mountains, hills, forests, and moorlands.

There will also be some camping grounds/camping resorts. And small, cute villages.

Think of this aesthetic:

These geographical features, and the appearance of these features, have taken inspiration from three irl National Parks: The Lake District, Peak District, and Snowdonia National Park.

These three parks hold a special place in my heart. They're my favourite parks and are also the three parks that I've visited most.

The Lake District

The Lake District is located in the north-west of England. It's famously known for its 16 lakes, given it's name. It's also known for the highest mountain in England - Scarfell Pike. It's also the location where Graphite was first discovered before they mass produced Graphite pencils in Europe.

The terrain here is much greener than the Peak District, and is a wide mixture of farmers fields, mountains, hills, moorland, forests, rivers and lakes.

The Peak District

The Peak District is located in the northern-central part of England, sitting directly beside the city of Manchester on it's Eastern side.

This park is mostly full of hills and sloped mountains, covered in moorland grass. There's also more reservoirs here, the most famous being Derwent Dam, known for being a popular training ground for Lancaster bombers when they were testing out the bouncing bomb.

It also has one of the most beautiful drives through the park too. Snake Pass, on the west side of the park coming from Manchester is a well-known road, known for its winding and "snake-like" appearance as you wrap around mountains. You actually follow a river upstream in a valley and arrive at 2 dams. It's also known for its high number of road accidents too.

Snowdonia

Snowdonia National Park, better known as "Eryri" (Er-ru-ree), is located on the north-western side of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. It's also the biggest National Park in Wales, and the 3rd biggest in the UK. It's also home to Wales' biggest mountain, Mount Snowdon. Around half of the park homes about 9 mountain ranges.

I tend to visit this park the most often, and I also just spent a week-long holiday here within the National park, but towards the far West where the borders of the park meets the sea.

So for this headcanon to work, we're gonna need some fires 🔥🔥🔥 otherwise there'd be absolutely no point in this.

Now don't get me wrong, we're nothing like the US. US temperatures can be between at least 30 to 40°c in the summer, we often have summers around the low to mid 20's. We may even get as much as the late 20's to 30°C during a heatwave.

We don't get quite as hot as other countries but we have insanely high humidity which prevents things from cooling down, even in the shade or at night, due to the amount of warm moisture in the air - so it actually feels hotter than it is.

The UK has a wet, windy and cooler climate BUT we do have our fair share of wildfires.

The UK Forestry Commision released a report that covers a period between 2009/10 to 2021/22 of wildfires recorded in the UK.

Between this 12 year period, around 360,000 individual wildfires were recorded, and 79,000 acres of land had been impacted.

The majority of individual fires were classed as being "small", but there was 12,000 classed as "primary" big fires.

4,700 fires affected National Parks, and 11,000 impacted "Sites of Special Scientific Interest".

The most affected areas of land were agricultural land, woodland, and residential areas.

Throughout the report, there seemed to be a steady increase in fire incidents throughout the 12 years.

I even had my own first hand experience with a wildfire. In August 2023, there was a wildfire on a field which backs onto my back garden fence at the rear of the house. The grass fire initially started down by the brook right beside my house, very likely started by teenagers, either by a lit cigarette or a vape. Had the wind blown in a different direction, it would've reached us in a few minutes.

Luckily for me, the fire was blown East and it travelled away from my house and along the side of the field. The farmer at the time was growing straw that had since been harvested, so all the tiny straw spikes in the ground were dry and helped to fuel this fire and it spread quickly.

There were flames that did reach at least 8ft in places, but it was the heat and speed of the fire that was the most concerning. It took multiple fire engines and two tractors with flattening equipment behind them to eventually smother the fire, just as it reached the back garden fence of someone's house.

Just witnessing this made me realise how quick these grass fires can spread and just how scary it was if the wind had simply blown the other way.

And with that, comes my conclusion. With the facts and figures I've discussed in this post, I do have a little bit of logic to go with this headcanon of mine. It won't quite sit right with the film but it's not complete nonsense at least XD

Hope you enjoyed reading it :)

[enbysiriusblack]

20 questions for fic writers

thank you for the tag @imagineacoolusername <3

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

18

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

109,886

3. what fandoms do you write for?

marauders (+ dc but i haven't posted any)

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

i just wanted a muffin

wrecking ball

a summer in wales

we are the dead

fistclenching, heartaching

5. do you respond to comments? why or why not?

i try to but if i can't think of anything to say then i just don't

6. what is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

that I've actually already written the ending for, would definitely be midnight rain. but the planned ending i have for the devil wears an angel's face is probably angstier

7. what is a fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

definitely i just wanted a muffin, its literally pure fluff throughout 😭

8. do you get hate on fics?

only once or twice, i just ignore/delete it though

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

nope

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

no, i don't really like crossovers. i do like aus, like characters in one fandom put into the situation of a different media (that's not really a crossover tho, is it?)

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

yeah. once with a mutual who is now deactivated, about the marauders going on a camping trip to snowdonia. and then with @lesbianmckinnonn we have the sinners and the saints (marauders during war years)

14. what's your all time favourite ship?

dorlene <33

15. what's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

i'm really aiming to finish all my wips, but i know i probably won't. im gonna say one I've never even posted, the cafe/bookshop au (i got bored of it and haven't written any of it in over a year sooo)

16. what are your writing strengths?

i actually have no clue. apparently i'm good at dialogue cause i can make it sound like vastly different people speaking? so that? and the storyline ideas themselves

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

probably the fact it takes me forever to write just a couple of words. i am super slow. also i always forget to describe things/people

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i'm absolute shit at learning languages, like the only language i can actually speak/understand even slightly is bsl. a lot of my characters do speak other languages though, so i like to sometimes have them speak in them i either ask mutuals that i know speak it, or have to put the sentence into like 20 different translation websites to make sure its right

19. first fandom you wrote for?

technically once upon a time when i was 9/10 (it was like half a notebook about regina becoming the evil queen again and lily joining her to get revenge against emma). but i never posted it, so the first posted one would be for harry potter

20. favourite fic you've written?

very hard to choose. i really like my cannibal!dorlene fic but i haven't actually published any of it. so choosing one i've actually written quite a bit for, I'm gonna say either fistclenching, heartaching or the devil wears an angel's face

tagging: @blitheringmcgonagall @lesbianmckinnonn @drownedlove @iheartmoons @ace-catboy-ryuuzaki

[stairnaheireann]

The All-Ireland Football match behind barbed wire, Frongoch Internment Camp, June 1916

It is over a century after a unique All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Louth was played among the men interned in the wake of the 1916 Rising in Frongoch in north Wales. Over 1,800 Irishmen were rounded up and detained without trial under the Defence of the Realm Act at the prisoner of war camp near the Welsh village of Bala, in the rolling hills of Snowdonia from June 1916 onwards. In…

[tsotc]

Is there anything you’d recommend in north Wales? I never really leave Scotland so I’ve no idea about it.

visit Llandudno, it's the tourism hub of north wales for a reason. there's the mines that offer tours, the alice in wonderland hunt, the trams and the cable cars, two different beaches, a pier with an arcade, an artificial ski slope, a lot of good shops, the great orme and little orme. if you've got your own transport i highly recommend visiting snowdonia national park and camping at the base of Snowdon in the summer.

conwy is also a lovely place, it's a seaside town built around its castle and has the uk's smallest house. i dont go there nearly half as much as I've been to Llandudno, mostly because its a pain to go on the buses. colwyn bay is a bit less pristine than the other two but the beach and prom are really nice and the shopping centre is decent with a market (dont expect much) every tuesday and Saturday. the beach in bae colwyn is sandy because a decade back they dredged it up from the ocean floor.

just whatever you do, do not go to rhyl. complete shithole. one of the uks lowest life expectancies. id cut off my own leg before foinf there willingly. I'm from the conwy county area (god forbid i doxx myself) so im biased towards it with tbe exception of rhyl. llanddulas doesn't have much to do in it (its an old people neighborhood, i lived there for 5 years and stayed inside the whole time), abergele has it's own beach + arcade area but you're better off going to Llandudno for a lot of things.

[pumpumdemsugah]

I'm watching this woman trek and camp in Snowdonia and I only just realised the reason people used those trekking walking sticks is to check for holes.

It rained and she was showing random grass covered holes 4 ft deep

I just thought people used them to lean on while they were tired and keep them steady. Maybe that's also a reason.

[alexmurison]

My little home from home illuminated in the misty mountains

[bikepackinguk]

A snowy day spent crossing Crib Goch! My plans for completing the horseshoe were a little scuppered by the pretty awful weather coming in, so decided to go with the contingency plan and trek back down to Llanberis after hitting the summit.

Some pretty hairy going at times with the ridges requiring careful navigation in the snow, but eventually made it round to get a well earned pint and hot pub meal.

Very few photos taken due to the soggy conditions up in the clouds, but we'll see what the Gopro managed to capture once back home. For now, it's an early lie down in the tent to rest up the legs before tomorrow's journey back.

TTFN!

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Wild camping in Snowdonia

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Wild camping in Snowdonia

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Your Guide to Achieving glimpse of UK

Embarking on a journey to the United Kingdom is an exciting prospect, filled with the promise of rich history, stunning landscapes, and vibrant culture. To ensure a seamless experience, meticulous preparation is key. Begin by ensuring your passport is valid for the duration of your stay, and familiarize yourself with the UK's visa requirements. The UK government's official website provides comprehensive information on the types of visas available and the application process. Take note of the necessary supporting documents, including proof of accommodation, travel itinerary, and financial capability.

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