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Proceed E from Drysgol for a few minutes until, at about 878212, an easing in the slopes permits a roughish descent over mosses and stone-encrusted grass. You can then either cross the stream to link up with ssss1, the Llaethnant route (thus regaining the road at 905212) or follow farm tracks to Pont y Pennant (904203).

W approach (AN11)

It is impossible, unless you have a friendly chauffeur, to combine this route with any other that would form a worthwhile round.

The Arans present a dull face to the W. They are prettily wooded, but the ridge looks rounded and whale-backed with no hint of excitement. This more or less sums up the long tramp which is given here for completeness (and because it is one of the permitted paths) rather than on merit.

The route starts from Esgair-gawr Farm (816224) where a car park has recently been constructed and where a mounted Mosquito engine commemorates two airmen who crashed in the Arans in 1944. Pass through the farm and then bear R on a Land Rover track which leads across fields and a forest plantation (where the path is wet and scrappy) before finally emerging on the open fells. The Arans are by now clearly impressed on the skyline ahead, but the best views are of Dduallt and Rhobell Fawr behind you. As on all the permitted paths there is a proliferation of arrows on rocks and markers on fences to prevent straying – so it is only a matter of time before you meet the fence and path mentioned in ssss1 at 856216.