Editors' Choice 2009: Hiking Wales

Porthgain Harbor, Pembrokeshire Coast Trail

Associate Editor Shannon Davis on the 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Trail.

Pen-Y-Gwyrd Hotel, in the mountains of Snowdonia, where early climbing pioneers stayed.

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.