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

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

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

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Kristin Hostetter bashes down through wet heather and rain (The Glyders, Snowdonia).

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Tent pics beneath Clogwyn Mawr, Vale of Llanberis, Snowdonia

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Beech forest near Llyn Bychan and the medieval-era trails through the Rhinog Mountains.

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Approaching Bryn Cader Faner, a bronze-age Celtic cairn monument in the Rhinog Mtns.

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Yael Kisel hiking in Cwm Bychan, Rhinog Mountains.

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Dennis Lewon looking toward Pen-y-Pass from camp on Glyder Fach. Mt. Snowdon.

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