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Fan Gihirych

Maen Llia route (FF11)

The Senni Valley is a memorable sight on cold winter mornings when the golden tints of autumn mingle with the dazzling white of early frosts.

The finest approach starts from 924189 where a ladder-stile gives access to the fells. With care it is just possible to park on the grass verge nearby. Over the stile follow the remains of an old stone wall (which soon degenerates to a line of posts) until you meet another wall crossing your path. Turn L and follow this along a superbly engineered track that crosses the steep upper slopes of Fan Nedd. Below R lies the Senni Valley, an oasis of long bracken-clad slopes and scattered woodlands far removed in spirit – if not in distance – from the bleak windswept uplands.

Fan Gihirych is hidden at first but soon begins to swell on the W skyline. At the same time a prominent cairn (shaped like a shark’s fin) comes into view half-R across a boggy depression where the track fades in the mire. Pass through an iron gate at the far end of the bog, and it is then but a short climb up to the cairn where you meet a noticeably pink bulldozed road. You are now at Bwlch y Duwynt with the Penwaindwr route (ssss1) coming in from the R.