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S ridge (FF3)

This little-known route keeps the objective firmly in its sights all the way and follows the edge of the long, elegantly sculptured escarpment that gradually builds up from the SE. Park along the stretch of road around 988175, S of the Beacons reservoir, and from there make a beeline across the pathless fells for the ridge.

Craig Cerrig-Gleisiad

As a height Craig Cerrig-gleisiad is nothing, an insignificant grassy mound distinguished from its environs only by a few feet in altitude and a small cairn surmounted by a pole. Yet its ascent provides one of the most rewarding walks in the region in a colourful setting far removed from the bleak moorlands that characterise so much of Fforest Fawr.

E ridge (FF4)

Cross the stile by the picnic area at 971222. Pass through the coppice, keeping the stream L, and carry on for 200yd to a tumbledown wall where the full splendour of a hidden cwm is revealed. The splintered crags that stand guard L rear up as fearsomely as any in Wales. The slopes are dotted with trees and generously carpeted with bracken and heather. Yet despite the severity of the crags this is S Wales, not the N, and the cwm is a haven for quiet contemplation. Sure enough, as if in assent, the crags gradually moderate to ever more benign grassy slopes as the eye roves round to the N and the gentle ridge that rises to Fan Frynych.