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S ridge (AG26)

Park well down the valley as there is scant space higher up.

The entrée to this route is the mountain road that leaves the A494 at 798217. It winds through foothills to what used to be the old stone cottage of Ty-newydd-y-mynydd (recently demolished).

Just short of the cottage site is a firebreak where old forestry plantations give way to new. Continue along the road for another 0.25 mile until, at the top of a small rise, by a stone gatepost and a fire station, there is a further firebreak where the new plantation ends and the old is resumed. Turn R here and walk through the firebreak until you meet a fence bounding the forest at its far end (804259). Turn L along the fence and walk down and up two depressions until, at a little knoll following the second, the forest boundary leaves you L and the S ridge comes into view half-L (806259). Stay with the fence to another gate but then strike out direct for the ridge.

It is trackless, marshy and tussocky at first, but the going soon improves as height is gained in a series of rocky steps. Higher up a fence comes in R, with a faint track which leads to the cairn. Avoid the temptation to stay with this too long in descent as it would eventually land you in difficult boggy country well to the SE. On the other hand (ssss1) you might well decide to cross the forest using the more S of the two firebreaks mentioned earlier. You would then be ideally placed, at 799257, for an ascent of Rhobell Fawr on AG27.