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Leave the summit cairns N, but bear slightly W after a few minutes to avoid the quarries. Soon, coming down the slope, you meet a quarry path, green with age, descending the mountain’s W flanks. The grim sight of Blaenau Ffestiniog is tempered with the quiet, mirrored calm of Llyn y Manod as it gradually unfolds below. Y Manod is a remarkable lake. Tucked in a hollow between Manod Mawr and Manod Bach, it is sheltered not only from viewers on the nearby hills but also from the ugliness that totally surrounds it – truly an oasis of peace and tranquillity.

Near the foot of the slope at 718446 is a prominent sheepfold where the path becomes sketchy for a time. However it soon returns, good as gold, hugging the cliffs of Clogwyn Candryll to drop down to the derelict homestead of Caecanol-mawr (720439). It bears R just after this and then, just short of a stone barn, bears L. From here you can freelance back to Cwm Teigl and ssss1, but if you do be sure to locate the little stone bridge over the Teigl at 723436.