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Editors' Choice 2009: Hiking Wales

Join our editors for their annual testing trip on the rocky, misty coast of Wales in this gallery. (Steve Howe)
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  • Porthgain Harbor, Pembrokeshire Coast Trail
  • Associate Editor Shannon Davis on the 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Trail.
  • Harlech Castle, built by Edward I in the 1400s.
  • Overlook onto the Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire Coast Path near Moylegrove.
  • Pen-Y-Gwyrd Hotel, in the mountains of Snowdonia, where early climbing pioneers stayed.
  • The Pass of Aberglasslyn, Snowdonia. Old stomping grounds of the poet Shelley.
  • Kristin Hostetter bashes down through wet heather and rain (The Glyders, Snowdonia).
  • Tent pics beneath Clogwyn Mawr, Vale of Llanberis, Snowdonia
  • Beech forest near Llyn Bychan and the medieval-era trails through the Rhinog Mountains.
  • Approaching Bryn Cader Faner, a bronze-age Celtic cairn monument in the Rhinog Mtns.
  • Yael Kisel hiking in Cwm Bychan, Rhinog Mountains.
  • Dennis Lewon looking toward Pen-y-Pass from camp on Glyder Fach. Mt. Snowdon.
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Porthgain Harbor, Pembrokeshire Coast Trail
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Porthgain Harbor, Pembrokeshire Coast Trail

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