A NEW gate has been installed along the Llanberis path of Snowdonia National Park.

As part of this year's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Snowdonia being designated a national park, the Bethesda-based artist and metalworker Joe Roberts was commissioned to design and create a gate for the walkers using this route up Snowdon.

Joe said of the design: “The gate is a depiction of the iconic rock face Clogwyn Du’r Arddu (on the north flank of Snowdon, considered by many to be one of Britain’s best climbing cliffs), as viewed from Llyn Du’r Arddu.

“The composition is inspired by this verse from Ifor Ap Glyn’s celebratory poem: ‘The orange shock of mountain ash; or the quartz rocks like corpse candles in the mist; for this is a year-round symphony’.

“Llyn Du’r Arddu to me is a watchful monument that shepherds the seasons in their many guises.

“It represents the might of Eryri (Snowdonia)’s history and the subtlety in which it is told. I spent my formative years in its company, working as a seasonal warden for the national park.

“It is never the same from one day to the next and, to me, each mood cast by its Indian face is a movement in Eryri’s symphony.”

Snowdonia’s 70th anniversary celebrations also include a painting by Lisa Eurgain Taylor, an environmental art installation by Tim Pugh; a song composed by Owain Roberts and Eve Goodman, and a dance film by Angharad Harrop accompanied by harpist Helen Wyn Pari.