I am going to run the Snowdon horseshoe at the end of this month, I've walked it three times so know my way around reasonably well, and I've done Crib Goch a few times more.
It's just I note that on the Strava Snowdon horseshoe segment, and on Finlay Wild's blog post route map, the corner between the Snowdon summit and the Watkin path is cut for a more direct route down, what I assume is, a steep scree slope.
I have only ever followed the path from the summit down to the Watkin path, which is scree anyway.
I wondered if it's possible to explain any landmarks / pointers to cut that corner? FYI I'm not going for the record like Finlay ! but if it could save me a few minutes (and not be dangerous) I would quite like to try it.
Edit: I've just plotted it both ways on a map and I think it only saves you about 200m of straight line distance so probably not much in it / not worth it for a punter like me!
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