In reply to jim jones:
> I've always done it anti clockwise, ever since I was a boy I've assumed this to be the correct way. Including a finish over the "last nail" to be the complete Horseshoe. In reverse (clockwise) from Crib Y Ddysgyl and down the N ridge is a way I've used to finish the day after a winter route or two in Cwm Glas or on Snowdon.
> Don't really understand this question, do you mean from the finger stone and back over Crib Y Ddysgyl and Crib Goch? If so either ridge of Crib Goch can be descended. Just depends where you want to end up.
Whenever I've read about ascending Snowdon via the PYG trail and then CG i've always read that it is a very committing scramble with no escape once on the ridge. Which is what got me thinking i'd been doing it the wrong way. However we did descend the usual scramble and got back to the PYG trail ok. So i guess the question is am i doing it the wrong way or is it just safer the other way?