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The track, meanwhile, leads via the deserted homestead of Cwm-fynnon (883243) and the E bank of the Afon Croes to the road at 895270. Alternatively you can follow a path that proceeds due N from Cwm-fynnon to the farm of Nant-y-barcut at 884263, there to join the road referred to in ssss1 (unmarked on the map) that leads up the W side of Cwm Croes.

Bwlch y Groes route (AN20)

Any walk that takes off from nearly 1800ft as this does should be popular – but not in this case. It starts from a stile by a cattle grid at 913233, the highest point on the mountain road from Llanymawddwy to Llanuwchllyn, and provides the simplest way by far to Llechwedd Du. Unfortunately it lacks interest and, after a short spell along a Land Rover track, degenerates into a trackless tussocky slog through peaty bog.

Glasgwm

Glasgwm is a tilted plateau of rough billowy moorland and small rocky knuckles, extensively wooded to the S and guarded to the E by the mighty battlements of Craig Cywarch. Its tall, elegantly rounded cairn is situated just off the N rim and has a distinctive beehive appearance (like the cairns on Glyder Fawr) when viewed from afar. A few steps N of the cairn is the shallow, rocky hollow that cradles the diminutive Llyn Bach. An equal distance S is the larger, more exposed Llyn y Fign, a lake that really needs blue skies to bring it alive.