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Deiniolen route (GL32)

Best used for a circuit of Llyn Marchlyn Mawr from Deiniolen (GL H3).

Walk down the reservoir road from 595631 as in ssss1. Pause to admire Llyn Marchlyn Mawr and then, depending on your stamina, it is simply a matter of choosing where to cross some marshy ground before scrambling up to the NE ridge, dodging outcrops en route.

NE ridge (GL33)

A descent that is desolate and unutterably sad and, unless you love quarrying as well as hills, pointless.

In bygone times, long before the age of slate quarries, this must have been an enjoyable walk, facing the sea and the setting sun. The ridge starts NW before veering E of N in a gentle decline that enters the quarry works near the Glyders’ last buttresses around 623644. Quarry roads then lead to the A5 by the layby at Ogwen Bank (627654).

Tryfan

Anyone not moved by Tryfan is unlikely to be inspired by any mountain. Of all the Welsh peaks it is the most brashly spectacular. Nothing prepares you for the colossal triangle of rock that leaps so dramatically into view on the road from Capel Curig to Ogwen. Narrow crested, unremittingly steep, isolated, generously garlanded in heather and bilberries, it is a scrambler’s paradise to its very roots. Most striking of all is the E face, a massive edifice of precipitous rock, buttressed with frowning gullies that soar to a triple top. The W face is only marginally less steep; it rises from the placid Llyn Bochlwyd, over grassy steeps and scattered islands of rock, before merging into the topmost rocky crown.