07/03/04
Allt Fawr &
North West of Blaenau Ffestiniog
07/03/04 Walk 5.2 from John and
Anne Nuttalls book - The Mountains of Wales. The weather was sunny but cold
and the walk started from the car park on the A470 at the top of the Crimea
pass 2 miles north of Blaenau Ffestiniog. There were five peaks- Allt-fawr (
2290ft) - Moel druman (2218ft) Ysgafell Wen (2205ft) - Ysgafell Wen North
Top (2195ft) - Ysgafell Wen far North Top) 2133ft). The walk was great and I
had my lunch on the last peak surveying the valley below me, I
was faced with a descent into the valley and a climb up the other side or
retracing my steps along the undulating ridge, I chose the first option as
described in the Guidebook, I am glad I did, it was a superb, wild and lonely
valley, not a soul in sight , there was wonderful feeling of a truly wild and
unfrequented valley
Looking up towards the
summit of Allt-fawr
A closer look at the
ridge up to Allt- fawr
Looking along the ridge
towards Moel Druman
Looking from Moel Druman
towards Ysgafell Wen
Looking back across the
valley towards the ridge I had just traversed
