To complete the Welsh 3000's involves walking a route of about 26 miles long, with an overall vertical ascent of over 11,500ft (3,500m) and fourteen or fifteen summits (fifteen if Garnedd Uchaf is counted).

We have been running this event since 1999 and all our guides are fully qualified mountain leaders who live and work in Snowdonia, as such they have excellent local area knowledge both day and night, so you can be assured we know our hills like the back of our hand!

The Welsh 3000's is a terrific mountain event covering 3 separate mountain ranges:

Carneddau, Glyderau and the Snowdon Massif.

It can be done as a 2 day event or taken over 3 days.

2 Day Event - This splits the mountain ranges into 2 separate days. The first day being quite long and covering the Carneddau and the Glyderau over a distance of 33km taking around 16-17hrs.The 2nd day is the Snowdon Range and this is much shorter, around 10km and 6hrs walking. Needless to say a high level of fitness and stamina will be needed on the 1st day.

3 Day Event - Splitting the 3 mountain ranges over 3 days, this is a very good way to cover the 3000's and is suitable for most people that have good general hill fitness.

How fit do you need to be? For the 3 day event we would suggest that a satisfactory level of fitness would be the ability to be able to walk to Snowdon summit from Pen y Pass car park using the 'Miners Path' in 2.5hrs max carrying a rucksack weighing around 8-10kg.

Please note for the 2 or 3 day event to run we need a minimum of 3 clients ( this could be a small group or 3 individuals).

Welsh 3000's Winter 3 Day Event

If you wish to do the 3000's in winter conditions we would expect you to have the correct clothing and equipment as well as a lot of previous summer and winter walking and scrambling experience in mountainous areas. The ability to be comfortable traversing narrow ridges in crampons in full winter conditions would be essential .A high level of fitness and stamina will be required.

The cost of this is £280pp for 3 days with a maximum ratio of 1 instructor to 2 clients.

If you need help with accommodation, from bunk houses to hotels we can point you in the right direction.