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Dinas Cromlech where the Glyders frown down on the Llanberis Pass (GL 12)

If it is a clear day try contouring across to Esgair Felen, an exhilarating eyrie sprouting crags of a fine reddish hue. It rises a daunting 2000ft above the Llanberis Pass and is an ideal spot for viewing Cwm Glas and Snowdon’s N battlements. You can also reach Esgair Felen direct from Glyder Fawr by starting out as if for Llyn y Cwn but then bearing SW down the bare stony finger.

Heather Gully (GL11)

Despite its attractive name this is not an easy route.

This descent entails a lot of uneven, trackless walking similar to ssss1. It starts on a S course from the summit cairns, trending L at about 643575, beside a stream, into the gully that gives the route its name. After much hard labour you approach more open terrain surrounding Llyn Cwm Fynnon where the route merges into ssss1.

Cwm Las route (GL12)

Walk up the Llanberis Pass from the car park at 607583. When you come to a footpath sign at 614576 with a campsite L and a postbox R, proceed down the stony, walled path which is indicated. After crossing a stile at the second of two white cottages the path momentarily fades and you should trend L to pick it up again near the Afon Las. Thereafter it is never in doubt as it shadows the stream’s true L bank. The first 0.5 mile is attractive, climbing steeply above a shady glen and a succession of tumbling falls. Higher up you cross the bleak spongy saddle beneath the red-tinted screes of Esgair Felen to end by the shores of Llyn y Cwn. Regretfully the hardest work, the treadmill up the gritty screes to Glyder Fawr, is still to come (see ssss1).