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Over the stile, keep to the right of the building to locate its rough access track, and then follow this out, soon crossing the Afon Arddu, with waters bright and sparkling. The track leads past derelict farm buildings, and on to Hebron Station, where you intercept a narrow lane that serves Hafodty Newydd.

All that remains is to follow the lane back to Llanberis, passing first under the course of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and then crossing the end of the Llanberis Path to the summit. Before reaching Llanberis, you also pass Pen y Ceunant Isaf, a licensed café, ideally placed to entice thirsty walkers to rest a while, and open all year.

Continue down the lane to the edge of Llanberis, and finally arrive close by the Mountain Railway station, and the start of the walk.

On the summit of Moel Cynghorion, looking towards Snowdon

GLYDERAU

On the cantilever, Glyder Fach (Walk 6)

The summit of Glyder Fach (Walk 6)

Black’s Picturesque Guide to North Wales, published in 1857, comments that ‘in savage grandeur the Glyder is not surpassed by any scene in Wales’. A radical observation, but still quite valid. There is something about the Glyders, Glyderau in Welsh, that sets them apart from other mountain groups; there is certainly more visible rock here, strewn randomly in awesome heaps, and lying at jaunty angles, as if someone has tidied up all the loose shavings from mountains created elsewhere, and made them into one great pile until they could figure out what to do with them. This is true mountain ground, rugged and rocky arguably like no other in Britain outside the Isle of Skye, a place where the elemental force of nature is all but tangible.