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Foel Boeth

Seekers after excitement should look elsewhere. Foel Boeth is the undistinguished top of a dull featureless ridge that rambles on for nearly 2 miles without any significant variation in height or, indeed, much at all to set it apart from the drabness of the surrounding moors. The most likely reason for tackling it is simple ‘peak bagging’. Strictly speaking it is, like Arenig Fawr, a twin-topped peak with Gallt y Daren at 778345 marginally higher than Foel Boeth itself (but this is merely hair-splitting when there is so little of character on either ‘top’).

S and E approaches (AG9)

Foel Boeth can be plodded up almost anywhere from the mountain road to the S or from the stony road that penetrates the upper Lliw Valley from Pont Blaen-lliw at 802336. With damp tussocky grass the staple fare, there is much to be said for keeping the tramp as short as possible!

Arenig Fach

Arenig Fach looks singularly uninspiring from Arenig Fawr or the road; not worth climbing. What a contrast when it is viewed from the Migneint or Carnedd y Filiast! Then it assumes a dominating air and looks every inch a mountain, even though there is still no sign of the craggy E face that watches over the almost unknown Llyn Arenig Fach. This is a shy hill and one whose treasures must be coaxed.