Category: North Wales

Fabulous LMC BBQ meet 5-7th September 2025

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A fine weekend at the LMC bunkhouse – where, despite wind and heavy showers on the Sunday, we drove up to Cwm Ystradllyn. After a leisurely coffee at the lovely farmhouse café (one of Rogers favourite places!) we walked down the old ‘streets’ through the ruined mine workers cottages and then along the old tramway to the main quarry which is very impressive. We then had to stop at the café again on our return for a cream tea before driving down to the old slate mill that processed the slate from 2 quarries. The whole enterprise unfortunately never made a profit so was closed down but left an incredible legacy which now has UNESCO status.
We drove down the amazing little road to Prenteg complete with grass and cows in the middle and some great hairpin bends…

You can read more in the full Meet report…

Short upland circuit from Cae Ysgubor

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On Thursday our Wales Hut warden led a local group on a fine short-ish upland circuit from the doorstep of Cae Ysgubor. It’s only a short stroll from our hut over to nearby Craflwyn Hall, from which there is a fine waymarked path which runs over to the foot of Dinas Emrys and then zig-zags gently up the adjacent valley, with some fine views of Moel Siabod and Nant Gwynant.

We never met a soul, (other than a group of three feral mountain goats!) The path eventually descends to meet the Watkin Path (a well-trodden Snowdon route), down to the car park at Pont Bethania. From there it’s just a short walk back to the hut along the shore of Llyn Dinas. Well worth doing next time you’re down at Cae Ysgubor.

Our Wales Bunkhouse gets new technology

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Many of our members love to escape the hubub of modern Lancashire living to enjoy the adventure and quiet serenity of Snowdonia at Cae Ysgubor, our Beddgelert bunkhouse. Even so, in our ever-changing technological world, LMC is now able to provide access on site to both a reliable broadband service and a couple of electric vehicle charging points.

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(Hut visitors wishing to use the EV charge point will need to have their LMC Hut Keyfob enabled for this purpose, as this is used to give access to the charger. More info from the Cae Ysgubor hut warden).