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By comparison with these the E approaches are terra incognita. (Only from the W do the Arans fail to tempt.) Start from Llanymawddwy and it matters little whether you trek Llaethnant, Cwm Dyniewyd or Darren Ddu; the likelihood is that the only sound you will hear will be the bleating of sheep! Yet Llaethnant and Dyniewyd can hold their own in any company and are well worth exploring. Give them a chance and they will reveal aspects of the Arans that few suspect.

For instance, you can divert N out of the Llaethnant Valley into Bwlch Sirddyn. From there you can walk over to Cwm Croes, or have an easy pull up to Esgeiriau Gwynion. Esgeiriau and its environs looks a dully spongy quagmire from the road at Bwlch y Groes, not at all the sort of place to waste time on. However first impressions are not always right, and if you keep to the W rim your reward will be views of the Hirnants (not to speak of the Arans themselves) that will live in your memory. And dry feet too!

South of Glasgwm the landscape is different again, with velvety rounded ridges linking the lonely, rolling uplands that resemble the Dovey hills across the pass more than they do the giants that bear down so harshly on Creiglyn Dyfi and Cywarch less than 2 miles away.