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Note Seniors Ridge and the Heather Gully should not be attempted in mist.

Seniors Ridge (GL7)

One of the problems with a book like this is that there are no secrets. Everything has to come out – even pearls like this, which you would rather keep to yourself.

Take ssss1 to Llyn Bochlwyd where on still, sunny mornings Y Garn is reflected in its blue waters. Follow a narrow track above its N shoreline. Ignore the well-trodden path that strides off L for Y Gribin, but when the little path divides again, a few minutes later, bear L in the shadow of the ridge. (Pressing straight on leads down to Llyn Idwal beside a wall at 646596; worth bearing in mind as an alternative routing – ssss1.)

The path splits yet again almost at once and it is important to take the higher fork that wends adventurously, yet safely, across the massive slopes of heather and scree that fall away from the spiky comb of Y Gribin. (The lower branch eventually fizzles out.) This is a walk in a million with Llyn Idwal, far below, cupped beneath the huge forbidding cirque of Y Garn and the Devil’s Kitchen – from nowhere else as compelling as this. To gild the lily, ahead lies hanging Cwm Cneifion (Cwm of the Fleece, sometimes known as Nameless Cwm), wild and forgotten, a haven of secrets.