Day 1 here http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=46372
Day 2 here http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=46452
This map track is clearly wrong! Rest assured we started from Pen-Y-Pass. £5 for 4 hours parking charge, £10 for 8 hours! I'm expecting gold plated paths for that sort of money! Was cheeky and just went for 4 hours worth. Raging! To be fair the Pyg track is a decent path but it did have some puddles. I'm sure someone could have got down here early with a towel and fixed it! Missed the turn off for Crib Goch and had to back track slightly. It's the bit before you cross a stile. There's an actual cairn naming the Crib Goch route but is handily hidden from the Pyg track! Ascent up Crib Goch was straightforward, pick your own route and scramble straight up. Hardly any wind today, so no real difficulty, despite the exposure. Lots of good holds and plenty places to put your feet. The ridge was something else! 5 points of contact in some places! I've never used my bum so much in a walk before

It was with great relief and a sense of achievement that I touched down on wider ground, with all sights set on Crib y Ddysgl. Plenty scrambling to be had. This Hewitt keeps on giving, just when you think you are arriving near the summit, there's another scramble awaiting you! Trig point marks the summit, pretty much where you realise that Snowdon is full off other people and someone built a train track up the mountain! What's worse there's a cafe! However, the thought off a tasty cappuccino stirred us on to blast up the track, fire through the obligatory summit pics and then take a wee rest in the cafe! Reasonable prices for fridge magnets!
I had read that the Watkins path was a bit "loose". Sure enough, I had use my fifth point of contact on the way down. Not very dignified. SMRussell had no issues. This was the worst point of the walk for me. Earlier I was content with a decent handfull of solid rock but this, I hate it! Managed to make it down in one piece the fired into the last Hewitt of the day - Y Lliwedd. You can find yourself scrambling amongst the rocks quite easily. However a decent path soon appears to the right. Again, you can choose your route up, plenty of choices! From the West peak onwards, the path improves and a quick descent back to the car park is guaranteed! Had thought about carrying on to Gallt y Wenallt but seemed like a lot of broken ground would need to be crossed. Also, thoughts were turning towards some excellent well deserved ale. And I was hoping my car wouldn't get clamped - it wasn't!
Lots of pics - it was a great day!

After the fork to go up Crib Goch, looking toward Y Lliwedd.

Looking up toward Crib Goch

Signpost - handily in the wrong place hidden from view by those on the Pyg track!

Calm before the scramble!

Nice chap showing us the way early on. He soon disappeared along the arete. Put us to shame!

Glyders

Up!

Views opening up!

Awesome place!

Arete, no hands needed in some places!

North to Llanberis

More arete

Looking back, hands would be good here!

Glad to be alive!

Bum cheek keeping me safe!

Look one hand!

Approaching the pinnacles

Middle pinnacle

Up to the right

Next on the list Crib y Ddysgl

Selfie, with downclimbing in progress!

Ridge! You could play tennis up here!

Up!

Back toward Crib Goch

Deceptively long path

Just doesn't end

Neither do the views!

Y Lliwedd

Other folk on the ridge

Up!

Almost there!

Last wee bit

Crib y Ddysgl summit trig

He was after ma pork pie!

Mechanical wonder delivering "other" people to the summit!

View back showing Pyg track emerging.

Summit cairn, we must have been stinking by this point!


people

other people

The start of the descent down the Watkins path before it becomes "loose"

more watkins path

Y Lliwedd, last summit of the dat

Hanging out!

The worst of the loose stuff is behind me!

That grey stuff is all the loose bits. I'm sure my bum prints will remain for some time!

Nice path

Very quiet here

Cracking views

First 3 hills

Plenty of exposure if you want it!

The upper part of Watkins path

Back to the pinnacles, there's actually someone right in the middle - looks like they are defying gravity

West top

Crib Goch

View

View back to Snowdon

Pen-Y-Pass in sight