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Miners’ Track (S) (GL6)

Dull? Maybe, if you are looking for non-stop drama, but not if you give the magic of Nantgwynant and Crib Goch time to work.

The miners’ track that slants across the Glyders’ S slopes from a stile at 661559, close by the Pen y Gwyrd Hotel, is a far cry from its N counterpart. No mountainly grandeur here, just a simple track swathing through the heather of a rock-studded hillside. This used to be excessively boggy lower down, but strategically placed stepping stones and a ‘walk-the-plank’ type bridge now make light work of it.

Once you mount the boggy tableland, shortly after the falls at 667576, you are treated to the principals coming on stage one by one, every step a revelation. Bristly Ridge, Tryfan, the nameless peak and Carneddau all appear, followed finally by the gentle Llyn y Caseg-fraith (Lake of the Dappled/Piebald Mare) and its diminutive satellites. Besides this lake you can pick up a black muddy path that soon turns to stone and leads unerringly (it is cairned to excess higher up) to the bouldery waste of Glyder Fach.