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Walkers wishing to short-circuit the miners’ track but not relishing Bristly Ridge could attempt the scree run that sweeps down to Bwlch Tryfan beneath its E battlements (ssss1). However this is a brute, loose and slithery all the way.

Y Gribin (GL3)

See ssss1.

Tryfan from near Llyn Caseg-fraith (GL 4)

Bwlch y Ddwy Glyder route (N) (GL4)

Remember that the word ‘bwlch’, which frequently does indicate a pass, more accurately means ‘gap’ or ‘defile’. Never truer than here!

I give this route for four reasons. It is ‘there’; it is direct (aggressively so); it is unfrequented, wild and rugged; it has magnificent close-up views of Glyder Fach and Castell y Gwynt. But – and it is a big ‘but’ – it is also exhaustingly steep and rough with only the most fleeting traces of a track. You have been warned! If you accept the challenge take the miners’ track to Bochlwyd, then follow the lake’s E shore leading into the brook that rises to the dip in the skyline directly ahead, past a tiny tarn. Good luck!