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After using this excellent website for a while, it's time for me to register and make a contribution! So, here's my walk around the Moel Siabod horseshoe...
(Sorry, but there's some 'old' photos in the report.)
This is a cracking walk with a very entertaining easy scramble up the Daear Ddu ridge.
Start off by parking at Bryn Glo car park (free!) on the outskirts of Capel Curig. Right, then across the bridge then after 100m fork right up a lane with a welcoming 'Private' sign. After 200m or so, you pass some holiday cottages and the lane turns into a track with clear views of Moel Siabod ahead...
moel siabod by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
Ignore the obvious ridge on your right (it's the descent route). Continue on the track as you pass a pleasant llyn then a small quarry working. Soon you'll see llyn y foel and the impressive looking Daear Ddu ridge (that is hidden from view in the previous photo). Continue to the foot of the ridge...
bottom of daear ddu by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
Pick your way up the ridge, you can make things a bit harder by sticking the right (and vice versa)...
half way up daear ddu by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
All too soon the fun is over...
top of daear ddu by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
The summit is a lovely place to sit and take in the views. (Mind you, it was damn cold with a biting easterly!)
moel siabod summit view by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
snowdon horseshoe by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
siabod summit view by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
The descent route (the ridge central in the panorama above)...
the way ahead by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
I came up on the right side and down the left in this pic..
siabod summit view by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
After walking 200m or so down this ridge you can pick up paths (100m on your left) either down to Plas y Brenin (and through woodland back to the car) or a grassy one that runs parallel down on the left of the ridge.
We carried on along the ridge and then down to the track we came up on...
the way down by
Trees&weed, on Flickr
This walk is a great half day out. It is useful for building confidence on more 'scrambly' terrain and do-able for a fit dog (my Nellie loves this walk).
And for means of introduction...
siabod selfie by
Trees&weed, on Flickr