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| 10/07/05 | |
| This walk was from the Nuttalls Guidebook The Mountains of England and Wales Volume 1 -Wales and climbed7 summits- due to lack of time I had to miss the two summits at the end of the ridge. The ones climbed were Pen y Allt Uchaf- Gwaun Lydan - AranFawddwy - Gwaun y Llwyni - Waun Camddwr - the two left for another day were Erw y Ddafad-ddu - Aran Benllyn, the walk took me around 6 hours and the weather was glorious, in fact it was probably too hot but after months of poor weather it was very welcome | |
| Looking up the valley from the car park, my first impression was, this looks interesting |  |
| The view from the slopes of Pen y Allt Uchaf looking across to the lovely side valley containing some very interesting waterfalls |  |
| Looking back down the track to the car park |  |
| Another view back down the valley |  |
| The patches on the steep hillside are areas that have been cut for hay in the past |  |
| One of the areas that have been cut for hay, with the old tractor parked at the bottom, it had twin wheels on one side for stability although I am not sure how he managed to turn the tractor across the slope at the top. It was very steep- sooner him than me. But very interesting to see the difficult conditions that our hill farmers have to contend with |  |
The memorial to Mike Aspain on the summit of Drysgol. Tragically this young man serving in the RAF Mountain Rescue Team was struck by lightning while on duty on 5th June 1960. A long time ago but it was very moving to stand there with this magnificent view and read this. |
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| Looking along the ridge to the two peaks that I had to leave to another day |  |
| Looking down on Creiglyn Dyfi from the summit of Aran Fawddwy |  |
| Looking South from the summit of Aran Fawddwy |  |
