Somehow, the snow forecast became a little academic in the last few weeks.

There was even enough a few weeks ago to dig this little snow hole at around 400m under Yr Aran. Took us a good 2 hours to get to this stage, but another hour or so would have seen us make the inside big enough to stand up in as we found the limited room at the outset made it hard work. Unfortunately, the big regret for this winter is that we hadn't the overnight gear to make us of it. GUTTED.

Rhinog Fach

1 - However long you reckon your walk will last, double it.
2 - If there's a path going in your direction, follow it.
3 - If there's a path going in a direction other than the one you're after; follow it.
4 - Map and compass are next to useless as there are no paths marked on the maps, and following a bearing across heather and boulder covered slopes isn't recommended.
5 - The crack in the rock you fall through is never as deep as the one you drop your aforementioned map/compass down.
6 - keep telling yourself that a combination of bog/rock/heather is fun.
7 - That one good thing is that they're so quiet, nobody's likely to come across you hanging from a boulder by a handful of heather as you lost the goat path you were following because it stopped at a sheer, ninety-degree, 50m cliff...