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 The other option (ssss1) is to join the forest track at its source, picking it up from the lane that leads to Pentrewern Farm at 825164.

Cwm Cywarch route (AN22)

Stay with ssss1 until you meet the fence crossing the fells above Creigiau Camddwr. Follow this L up a slope of rocky debris direct to the cairn.

Gesail Farm route (AN23)

The coarse bulldozed track that zigzags so brazenly between the crags backing Gesail Farm (852184) is no substitute for the wisp of a trail that once followed much the same course – at least not in aesthetic terms, however helpful it may be in simplifying route-finding. To be fair it still retains a sense of occasion. How could it be otherwise in the august surroundings of Craig Cywarch? On top you join ssss1 at 842179.

Pen y Bryn-Fforchog

It may seem a bit ‘cart-before-horse’ to give only one route for a hill and then suggest it is best used for descent, but no one is likely to climb Pen y Bryn-fforchog (Top of the Forked Hill) for its own sake with so much else around. After all it is merely the top of a grassy shelf that bounds, yet barely surmounts, the SW periphery of the Glasgwm plateau. However if you tackle Pen y Bryn-fforchog from Glasgwm, having spent the morning tramping ssss1, and then use the Bwlch Oerddrws route to get down again, you are assured of an enjoyable day in peace and solitude, seeing old friends from new angles and discovering untrodden ground.