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The Pyg Track in winter

Glaslyn, its water tinted by copper ore, was once known as Llyn y Ffynnon Las, the Lake of the Green Fountain, and is, so legend would have us believe, inhabited by a monster, an afangc, which used to live in a pool near Betws y Coed, where it frequently wreaked havoc among the locals. Tired of its ways, they finally moved it to Glaslyn, pulled by a team of oxen, one of which under severe strain lost an eye at Gwaun Lygad yr Ych, the Field of the Ox’s Eye, on the slopes of Moel Siabod, by which way it was brought. The presence of the beast in Glaslyn’s waters is said to be an explanation of why no bird will fly across the lake.

With the shores of the lake close by, and a substantial if rocky track now underfoot, you pass the outflow from Glaslyn, and continue the descent of the Miners’ Track to mine buildings above the shoreline of Llyn Llydaw. The mines here were never very productive, and although supplied with new machinery in 1915, they closed down a year later.