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Coming down is a bit more difficult. Starting off on 230° puts you on the cairned track just described, but staying on it is quite another story. In over 20 descents I doubt if I have ever followed the same line twice! I descended the S ridge twice in three days in July 1988. On the first occasion I reached the col in no time at all, calm and collected; two days later, using the ‘same’ route, I was stepping gingerly over yawning crevices, ensnared by awkward boulders, trapped by tiny cliffs just too high for comfort and forced to slide down shiny rock. It is magnificent scrambling nonetheless, and great fun!

Bochlwyd/S ridge (GL36)

A quick way down when time is of the essence.

Follow a band of scree falling away W from the col separating the S and far S peaks. It aims for the N tip of Bochlwyd and soon merges into a wet, squelchy path beside a stream before eventually passing between two little outcrops to join the miners’ track about 100yd short of the lake’s N shoreline. Halfway down you may notice a track creeping away E of N. This gives an alternative lead into the W face route.