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‘Looming stone towers like Maya temples’: a hike through Snowdonia’s slate country

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‘Looming stone towers like Maya temples’: a hike through Snowdonia’s slate country
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A new trail in the national park traces the legacy of Welsh industry, while offering some of the UK’s finest riverside and mountain walksThe vital moment comes a couple of hours into the walk. I drop down from a tussocky hill towards the village of Y Fron. There’s an abandoned slate-quarrying machine and a grassy track that suddenly emerges on the rim of a deep lake-filled crater. The water is the colour of an old bruise. Around the rim is a fence of lichen-crusty slates like gravestones. It’s a

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