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Note At all costs avoid the temptation to make a beeline direct from bridge to top (as I once did). The angle of attack is cruel and you are soon landed in an unholy jungle of screes and boulders.

Deiniolen route (GL27)

Park at the roadhead at 595631, go through the gate and march down the uninspiring reservoir road flanked by threadbare grass and building debris. Trend R as you near Llyn Marchlyn Bach and pull up the spur to Elidir Fach on cairned stony grass. Next head SE up easy screes to mount Elidir Fawr’s main ridge. A path of sorts leads to the cairn, skirting just below the crest and thus avoiding what would otherwise be a laborious trek over large, bouldery humps each of which would persuade you it was the top. An alternative start (ssss1) can be made from the end of a narrow quarry road at 595612 near Dinorwic. From here you can gain the spur by working round the side of the quarry workings.

Mynydd Perfedd

Mynydd Perfedd (Central Mountain) is unimpressive. Only a windshelter at the S tip of the spacious grassy saddle that stretches to Carnedd y Filiast 0.5 mile away N gives any inkling of a top. However there is plenty of good sport nearby, such as the stroll round the edge to Elidir Fawr above the blue shimmer of Llyn Marchlyn Mawr and the imposing Pillar that dominates its S shoreline. For a day with a difference you could always try exploring the lonely approaches through Cwm Perfedd and Cwm Bual. Wild gems, both of them, yet unaccountably neglected.