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Stay with the road until you come to another iron gate. Either follow the road for another 0.5 mile before scrambling up the slopes R or, better, advance through the heather by the edge of the cwm, keeping Fan Gihirych in view the whole way.

Penwaindwr route (FF12)

All that prevents this becoming a more popular walk is the difficulty of fitting it into a round trip.

Little guidance is needed. Simply follow the wall that climbs the hillside next to the dwelling of Penwaindwr at 907229 and let it lead you, via the minor top of Fan Bwlch Chwyth, to Bwlch y Duwynt from where you finish as in ssss1. The views are all you would expect from an isolated finger: Fan Fawr and Fan Llia on one side, the Black Mountain on the other and the Usk Valley behind.

Bwlch Bryn-rhudd route (FF13)

Quick if you have good leg muscles, but unrewarding.

This is the shortest but dullest route to Fan Gihirych. It is also the most difficult to fit into a satisfying day. It starts from a stile in the layby on the A4067 at 870195 from where it is a straight slog up the hillside.