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Sad to relate the trig point on this lofty summit faces a memorial to eight American airmen who died on the mountain in 1943 when their Flying Fortress crashed on the final stage of its flight from the USA.

Llyn Arenig Fawr route (AG1)

The classic route up Arenig Fawr.

The route starts over a stile at 846396. A slow rise up a stony road is dreary and quite uneventful until, after 0.5 mile, the desolate Llyn Arenig Fawr comes into view below the frowning bastion of its guardian peak. A sombre, melancholy scene. The road ends by an old sluice house and weir but a track carries on, rambling up the heather-clad slopes of the ridge that rises enticingly before you.

The scars of civilisation now yield to the wild of the fells with views of the crags that threaten the lake improving with every step. Higher up the ridge the path crosses a fence, then a second one. The summit is in view by now, and you can see that it is well set back with still some way to go.

The path now sweeps round to the R to maintain height before gradually curling back L towards the summit where it runs below, but parallel to, the main ridge. The path never reaches the ridge so you must abandon it and work diagonally up the grassy slopes to a ridge path that follows a wire fence to the top. Better still, aim direct for the ridge immediately after the second fence. That way you gain height sooner with an overview of the lonely Pen Tyrau uplands and their scattering of teardrop tarns.