GREAT SNOWSTORM FEBRUARY 1982
A number of people had to spend the night in Gwrach Ynys because of the drifts on the Morfa Harlech road, on Friday night, 8 January, 1982. At one time there were ten people in the house but Sergeant Gareth Roberts from Penrhyndeudraeth and Policeman Dafydd Jones from Maentwrog was able to venture home at seven o'clock, when a four-wheel drive vehicle came to escort them.
The last to arrive was Mr Tongue from Glan Gors, at half past nine at night, having come all the way from Manchester, over the Crimea pass but to get stuck near Bryntirion, yr Ynys. He started walking, but he was defeated by the stormy weather and he too had to spend the night on the floor of Gwrach Ynys.
From left to right: Mr Tongue, Bobi Pryce Jones, Hywel Evans, Harlech, Lynnette and Alan Gayden, Dyffryn, Eluned Williams, Glan Gors, Aled Owens, Bl Ffestiniog.