Mending Footpaths in Eryri

So the BMC is the British Mountaineering Council.

It's the representative body for hill walkers, mountaineers, and climbers in England and Wales.

We've got 82,000 members-

That's-

... and we protect access to the crags and paths for all of our members.

Um, my role is I'm sort of, um, leading the, uh, the volunteers, so I- I'm a volunteer myself, but I arrange and lead the volunteer events that happen in Eryri.

So as we were just climbing up that staircase, I mean, we've got, you know, it was a pretty vertical climb.

I heard one of the women walking behind said, "Gosh, I wonder which legend put these stones here," [laughs] because I'm guessing it would've been one of you.

I can't take credit for the ones at the beginning here, 'cause they've been there for quite a while.

But, um, as we progress throughout this walk, yeah, we have, my team have had the privilege of putting them in.

There's, uh, alongside some volunteers as well, which has been a brilliant help.

And do you want to just introduce yourself?

So my name's Dan Goodwins, and I'm an Eryri ranger for the National Trust, um, specializing in upland, um, repair and maintenance.

And there's a team of four of us covering a, a large area all across the National Trust land in Eryri.

Is, is that your dream job, Dan? Is that the thing you just, or never even maybe thought existed and-

Well, on a, yeah, on a day like today, yeah, it doesn't really get much better.

The building a path with some volunteers on, on a day like today, yeah, it's an excuse to get out in Eryri in the mountains, isn't it?

And just take us through the mountain peaks we can see, and indeed the lake below.

Yeah.

We're in the Ogwen Valley here, Cwm Ogwen.

And then we, uh, we can see in front of us, this is Pen yr Ole Wen.

And what's great about Eryri is all the, all the names as well.

They've all got really interesting names.

So Pen yr Ole Wen, uh, Head of the White Light, and then we've got Pen Llithrig y Wrach behind us as well, Head of the Slippery Witch.

And what's the peak that we're actually climbing?