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Cwm Cywarch route (AN5)

Driving up the twisty road to Cwm Cywarch the urge to get out of the car and onto the fells is almost irresistible. The sight of that familiar cirque with its massive buttressed crags piercing the sky is an inspiration, even to the most indolent. Park in the field where the unfenced road ends at 854185. March on, ignoring the footpath sign to Hengwm, past the farmstead of Blaencywarch, over a ford and up a springy band of green that cuts through bracken and boulders. (Many signs and arrows on rocks render detailed directions superfluous.) Before long you are hemmed in by lowering crags, serenaded by the music of the brook and marvelling at having climbed so quickly out of the lush pastures below.

The head of Cwm Cywarch

Unless you want some awkward scrambling be sure to spot (near the top) where the path crosses to the stream's true L bank. Once across, the path fades and the best plan is to head slightly E of N until you meet a fence with a well-trodden path alongside. This is a squelchy, oozy mess at first (long white planks have recently been laid over the worst sections) but it firms up later as it winds up the mountain's bouldery slopes to a large cairn marking the S top (860220). The trig point is then a short walk NE across a stony plateau. Shortly before meeting another fence coming off the hillside R, pass a junction of fences (851208), a much-needed clue to the whereabouts of Waen Camddwr, some 150yd S.