Wild Goats in Snowdonia

[Yipper]

Thinking of going to see / search for the wild (feral) goats in Snowdonia in March when the weather warms up a bit. Apparently, there are nearly 1000 of them.

Has anyone been and done something similar? How close can you get (without harming them or us)? Best places to go?

http://www.snowdoniamammals.co.uk/mammals/feralgoa...

[Wacky Racer]

I was in Snowdonia near the Llanberris pass, just up from Beddgelert just before Christmas and we passed a small car park with several Land Rovers parked up, and about forty Welsh speaking farmers training their binoculars on a distant hillside.

I enquired what they were looking for and they said "Goats".

[tonyb1968]

The easiest place to go is the Great Orm un Llandudno, absolutely hundreds of wild goats on it, otherwise it can be a bit of hit and miss near Snowdonia.

[Yipper]

Thanks, folks.

Is it fairly easy to get close or closeish to the Great Orm goats (without distressing them, of course)?

[Boosted LS1]

Wacky Racer said:

I was in Snowdonia near the Llanberris pass, just up from Beddgelert just before Christmas and we passed a small car park with several Land Rovers parked up, and about forty Welsh speaking farmers training their binoculars on a distant hillside.

I enquired what they were looking for and they said "Goats".

Nah, they were really looking for sheep. Were the farmers wearing wellies, if so, guilty

[popeyewhite]

Wacky Racer said:

I was in Snowdonia near the Llanberris pass, just up from Beddgelert .

Doesn't um, the Llanberis pass go from Llanberis? Perhaps you mean The Watkins Path - just up from Beddgelert?

[tonyb1968]

Yipper said:

Thanks, folks.

Is it fairly easy to get close or closeish to the Great Orm goats (without distressing them, of course)?

Yes, very easy, you can do a couple of things, walk around the Great Orm or cable car it to the top (probably your best option unless you are feeling fit amd healthy )

[Wacky Racer]

popeyewhite said:

Doesn't um, the Llanberis pass go from Llanberis? Perhaps you mean The Watkins Path - just up from Beddgelert?

It was a car park/lay by on the left of the A498 between Beddgelert and Capel Curig, about a mile before the left turn that takes you up to the summit of the Llanberris pass.

They didn't look like sheep sha**ers to me....no, definitely goats they were looking for.

[Yipper]

tonyb1968 said:

Yipper said:

Thanks, folks.

Is it fairly easy to get close or closeish to the Great Orm goats (without distressing them, of course)?

Yes, very easy, you can do a couple of things, walk around the Great Orm or cable car it to the top (probably your best option unless you are feeling fit amd healthy )

Sweet. A bit of cable car, goat-spotting, and an ice cream at the summit. Just the ticket to blow out the Winter cobwebs

[popeyewhite]

Wacky Racer said:

It was a car park/lay by on the left of the A498 between Beddgelert and Capel Curig, about a mile before the left turn that takes you up to the summit of the Llanberris pass.

Stupid me - I read 'path' for "pass"!

[Einion Yrth]

Yipper said:

tonyb1968 said:

Yipper said:

Thanks, folks.

Is it fairly easy to get close or closeish to the Great Orm goats (without distressing them, of course)?

Yes, very easy, you can do a couple of things, walk around the Great Orm or cable car it to the top (probably your best option unless you are feeling fit amd healthy )

Sweet. A bit of cable car, goat-spotting, and an ice cream at the summit. Just the ticket to blow out the Winter cobwebs

Or you could drive up, there's a sizable car park.

[oilandwater]

I spotted these on the drive down the Great Orme. Sorry the photo quality is poor.

[Yipper]

Useful photo. Shows it is worth the trek to North Wales.