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Miners’ Track/S ridge (GL37)

Follow ssss1 to Bwlch Tryfan. Do not cross the stiles; instead follow a well-used stony track heading N. This climbs a rocky knoll and then stays W of the wall before rising to the S col to finish as in ssss1. Find time, if you can, to visit the far S peak to see the little tarn that lies cupped in its summit rocks.

West face (GL38)

The first hour is a brute; slow starters should look elsewhere!

On a grey, drizzly Ogwen morning the sight of the pink scree trail struggling painfully up the mountainside so very far above is as daunting as any I know. From the parking area at 660603 cross the stile, climb the steps and then make a beeline S for the stony path that curves round to the W of the knuckle known as Brag Rocks. (Do not stray L to the stone shoot that fills the gap between these rocks and Tryfan proper.) The best ways I know to survive the tumble of loose, wet bouldery debris that lies in wait are to enlist a congenial companion, or to concentrate on some knotty philosophical problem (or both!). The gradient relents when you at last cross a broad grassy saddle. But beware – this idyllic interlude is shortlived. The agony returns with unabated fury when the trail merges into the prominent scree shoot that culminates in the cleft between the N and main tops.