Take-off
For the more sensitive parking place and access to the main N and NW takeoffs turn off Llanberis high street at the Joe Brown "Corner Shop". First right. First left. Keep going, through a gate, (please close after going through) 'till the road turns into a track. You're there (SH 567 595). This is a small, tarmaced parking bay that you might think holds ten cars if packed in double. It doesn't. It holds about three, four if parked well! Any more and the farmer can't turn his trailer round and, justifiably, gets pissed off. He's a great guy so don't upset him. If this place has more than three cars in it there's a lay-by 300yds back down the hill. If parked at right angles to the road we can squeeze about three cars in this spot. Finally, as a last option, go back up the road to the sharp right hand bend where it turns into a track. Between the bend and the gate above you'll see a sloping field on the right. Drive onto the edge of the field and park. Do not drive further into this field than is absolutely necessary! Try not to scuff up the grass with tyres. The field should only be used when the other options are full. When parking anywhere here please don't block the road or track and don't block any openings into fields especially the openings into and opposite the derelict by the parking bay. Do try to share lifts up to the parking area. Phew! We're out of the car. Just below the small tarmac parking bay is a track leading towards the bottom of Eilio's main spur. Take this, through the gate, then along for about 200m. Now bear right off the track and up the hill towards a fence-ladder. Over this ladder is the start of the spur and the main take-off area (SH 567 590).