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More scrambling, high up on the W face, leads to a hollow separating the N top L from the main top R. There are easy scrambles up to each with the latter crossing over the W face gully route.

Stepping over the gully and staying with the path would bring you to a shallow cleft between the S top and main top, high above the E buttress, with an obvious finish for either.

Y Garn and Llyn Ogwen from Tryfan’s N ridge

Heather Terrace/S ridge (GL35)

An easier route to the top.

It is strange that such a manly giant as Tryfan should surrender itself so tamely to a thrust across its fearsome E face. Strange but fortunate, for how else but along the friendly Heather Terrace would the first-time walker not yet confident enough to take on the N ridge (or the family party with young children) get to enjoy this most exciting of Welsh mountains?

Park near the entrance to Gwern Gof Uchaf Farm. Follow a well-worn track that skirts the farm R before crossing a stile and making for open country in front of some smooth, tilted slabs known as Little Tryfan (a nursery for young climbers). The next objective, across a splash of bog, is the ribbon of white scree that scars Tryfan’s otherwise inviolate ramparts. It is laboriously steep and loose but a newer path avoids the worst (until it too suffers the same fate) by arcing round to the L.