Sadly not. Hartside Pass was completely blocked. We went somewhere else & got covered in slimy red mud instead.

Sadly not. Hartside Pass was completely blocked. We went somewhere else & got covered in slimy red mud instead.

Yup, we got turned around by the snowplough driver and scowled by a police Freelander.

Spent the rest of the day getting covered in aforementioned red gunk, and likely will spend the rest of the week cleaning it off :lol:

I wonder where our webmaster has got to? :bored:

I was just thinking that today actually, I was hoping that they made it, having gone such a long way. I guess they were going to Nent from the west so hopefully it was better for them than us!

Sadly not. Hartside Pass was completely blocked. We went somewhere else & got covered in slimy red mud instead.

B30 Pit 😉

Lots of fun on the road into Nent today after the snowplough had helpfully given up and gone home halfway up the hill leaving a nice 6ft high bank of snow across the road....
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Just done a snow check outside ........... oh dear the lanes full 😉 of snow & more to come they say.

Peter.

Lots of fun on the road into Nent today after the snowplough had helpfully given up and gone home halfway up the hill leaving a nice 6ft high bank of snow across the road....
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Visitors to the Snowdonia National Park are being urged to use "common sense" when parking their vehicles.

The warning came after motorists parked on the side of the road at Pen y Pass near Llanberis because the car park was inaccessible due to snow and ice.

Photographs show buses struggling to pass the parked cars.

A spokesman for the park said it was not policy to clear car parks when more snow was forecast and said drivers should park lower down the mountain.

"Because Pen y Pass is so high, when the weather forecast is like it is now, then there is no point in using resources to clear a car park with 81 spaces," said Peter Trumper, the head of property services in the park.

"There is a good chance that we would get a digger up there to clear it, but then when people got back down they could find snow half-way up their car doors," he added.

Mr Tumper said the advice would be to drivers to use car parks lower down the mountain and walk from there.

"Usually the snow does not stay for long, but that is different this year," he said.

"The public should take responsibility for themselves and not drive up to Pen y Pass (if conditions are bad) - and they should check our website for MountainSafe advice before starting out," he added.

Mr Trumper said park staff had been advised to turn back on Tuesday because the snow and ice made it extremely dangerous to reach Pen y Pass.