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Aran Fawddwy: the final approach from the south

Stay with the fence that straddles the spur beyond Drws Bach until you are invited to cross it at a ladder-stile. The terrain changes abruptly from grass to rock hereabouts and the well-worn path that scales the mountain's final defences, leading first to the knuckly S top and then to the breezy trig point, is amply cairned.The tarns at 860215 scarcely merit a diversion, short though it would be.

Cwm Dyniewyd route (AN7)

For a day with a difference try starting from Llanymawddwy.

You can choose from two routes, both of which are all but forgotten. Darren Ddu is perhaps best saved as a steady downhill trek for tired legs in the evening, but Cwm Dyniewyd gives good sport either way. Both join the Hengwm route at Drysgol.

The lane by the chapel at 902190 is easily missed as you drive through the village, but it is there all right, climbing steeply beneath an awning of pines, then cutting through bracken before entering Cwm Dyniewyd above a glen (mauve with rhododendron flowers in spring). The cwm is still as nature intended; the black slippery rocks at its head festooned with the silver thread of Pistyll Gwyn. At some point you must gain the ridge. Probably the easiest course is to make for the tiny col just W of Pen Foel-y-ffridd, one of the hills that stand guard over Llanymawddwy. A stiff slog but worth every pant.