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The ways unite at the top on a bouldery tongue midway between the two Glyders which is dominated by Castell y Gwynt and the regimented, shattered crags of Glyder Fach. A large cairn at 651582 is the landmark to look out for in mist.

Pen y Pass route (the red route) (GL10)

Glyder Fawr is one of the last peaks you would expect to be able to climb almost all the way on grass, but life is full of surprises!

A fine route, threading attractively through a maze of hollows and humps liberally laced with marsh and islands of rock. It is also a scenic route. Crib Goch and Cwm Glas are the main attractions, but you also get an unusual prospect of Llyn Cwmffynnon and the shapely cliffs that girdle its S shoreline.

The path starts by the Pen y Pass Youth Hostel. A footpath sign directs you across a small garden to a stile over a wall daubed with a red waymark sign. It is wet and soggy at first across a boggy depression and the red blobs on the rocks are not easy to spot. However matters improve after a short sharp climb where the line of attack swings from being parallel to the road to N, and where you begin to tackle Glyder Fawr’s S shoulder. By this time the waymarking is as dependable as any I can recall. It needs to be, because cairns are few and far between and losing the way, though not serious, would certainly be inconvenient. Avoid the route in mist or snow when waymarks would be obscured.