north-wales

Holyhead Mountain on Anglesey offers a brief but satisfying coastal walk with ancient ruins and excellent views from its modest 220-metre summit.

Mynydd Bodafon offers a brief 10-minute walk to Anglesey’s highest point, with surprisingly good radio conditions and views to Snowdonia.

A route from Llanberis ascending Snowdon twice, making 62 SOTA contacts on the summit including S2S contacts and a chat with the scheme’s co-founder G3CWI.

An ascent of the Snowdon massif via the Llanberis Path with an extension to Y Lliwedd, featuring Grade 1 scrambling and a 265km summit-to-summit QSO.

Moel Hebog offers a varied circular walk from Beddgelert, with easy scrambling, excellent summit views, and good radio conditions for SOTA contacts.

Glyder Fawr’s lunar-like summit plateau is reached via the thrilling Bristly Ridge scramble, offering exceptional views and radio conditions.

Tryfan offers challenging scrambling routes to its distinctive rocky summit, where the famous Adam and Eve stones test the nerve of mountaineers.

Carnedd Llewelyn via the Crib Lem Spur scramble offers exceptional views and radio conditions from Wales' second-highest peak at 1,064 metres.

Creigiau Gleision offers spectacular views over twin lakes from its rocky summit, reached via challenging pathless terrain from Pen Llithrig y Wrach.

Pen Llithrig y Wrach provides excellent views over Llyn Cowlyd from its 799m summit, reached via challenging boggy terrain from Gwern Gof Uchaf campsite.