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Cwm Gafr route (GL22)

I include this route purely out of duty. It is easy and it gets you to the top safely, even in mist, but it is also deadly dull.

Start from Nant Peris at 608583 behind a cluster of houses set in an alcove. A lane leads to a group of white buildings before trending R up the hillside past a white cottage. Thereon the track plods above, but parallel to, the Afon Gafr for 2 miles of the bleakest, most featureless grassland you will find in many a long day. Even the gradient barely alters. After an eternity you meet a fence near the edge overlooking Nant Ffrancon that leads directly to the cairn.

Esgair y Ceunant route (GL23)

More worthwhile than ssss1, because it is higher with better views.

Start with Cwm Gafr but pull up to the narrow finger of Esgair y Ceunant as soon as practical. Then, at about 620604, bear L onto a little-used path that slants across to Bwlch y Brecan. From here follow the ridge path to the foot of Foel Goch’s shattered NW face where a steep zigzag up shaly screes leads to the top. Esgair y Ceunant can also be joined from Cwm Dudodyn (ssss1) as described under Elidir Fawr (see below).