Graig ddu quarry.....30.

Final pic's from this walk.

Time to drive back down the valley.

  

Farmhouse.

  

Bridge.

  

View across the valley. In the distance is the dam, the next walk.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....29.

Waste slate levels.

  

Looking over the hills.

  

This mine is still working, all open cast now.

During the second world war all the art treasures were brought up from London and stored within the mine for safe keeping.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....28.

Low cloud on Snowdon. 

 

Gate hinge.

  

Rock fall.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....27.

The tramway to the lake is flooded.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....26.

A rusty section of tramway rail.

  

One last shot of the dressing shed.
     

Another ruin.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....25.

Looking down the incline.

  

Would make a nice summer house, you wouldn't want to be up here in the winter.
It's only October and it's freezing!

  

Old roof beams.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....24.

Final view of the lake.

  

View across the valley  from the drum house.

  

In the distance the engine house chimney.

Graig ddu quarry.....23.

Hole in the ground, once the way to work for some.

   

View over the ruins.

  

Welsh mountain sheep. You have to be tough to survive up here.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....22.

Reservoir on top of the mountain. 

Water from here was used to power machinery in the dressing sheds below at Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The tramway runs at the side of the lake.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....21.

Going in for a coffee break.

  

No doubt this building could tell a few stories.

Local sheep, no humans about today.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....20.

Time to climb the incline.

  

Building at the side of the incline.

  

A view from the old drum house.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....19.

When I first came up here the steps were clear, nature is now reclaiming her land.

  

From the dressing shed.

  

Rear of the dressing shed.

  

Chimney. Must have been the barracks, only building with heat!

 

Graig ddu quarry.....18.

Tons of waste slate.

  

Always nice Christmas trees growing on the waste slate.

Old roof beams.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....17.

The second quarry. Too dodgy to go down on my own.

  

Time to go back through the tunnel.

  

The way back out.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....16.

Tunnel to the second quarry.

  

The tunnel will probably collapse one day, hopefully not today.

  

Tunnel exit.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....15.

The way to work, far corner!

  

Mine entrance close up.

  

Only workers here these days.