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What visitors there are usually arrive across the crisp sheep-cropped saddle from Mynydd Perfedd. An easy, breezy walk with a splendid view of the smooth slabby cliff face that Carnedd y Filiast presents to Cwm Graianog. Near the same spot a stile over a wall ushers in the summit cap; a windshelter surrounded by a ramble of mossy boulders that are disconcertingly slippery when wet.

Of the three routes below, Cwm Graianog amply repays half a day of anyone’s time; the others only if they fall into place as part of a longer round.

Cwm Graianog route (GL31)

Leave the old road near the elbow at 630637 and work your way across the marshy ground S of Cwm Ceunant, with crags L, to get onto the ridge almost directly above Tai-newyddion. Scraps of track gradually merge into a gritty path that takes a while to make up its mind, but eventually steers a heathery course between the grassy hollow of Cwm Ceunant R and boulder slopes containing Cwm Graianog L. Towards the top the latter coalesce into a wall of extraordinarily smooth, tilted, rocky slabs. These are clearly visible from the old road near Maes-caradoc. Easy angled, they are nevertheless out of bounds to walkers and even climbers are set a few problems as holds and belays are few and far between. Above the slabs a scree and bilberry slope goes straight to the top.