Moelwynion

[Broggy1]

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A beautiful weekend for a two day trip to Wales - starting with a good chunk of the Moelwynion Hills on Saturday.

Lovely blue skies, not much breeze and only a slight bit of snow on the fells on Moelwyn Mawr.

You would do well to go wrong on the route to Cnicht from Croesor

The 'Matterhorn of Wales' ahead

Approaching the steep, but excellent final climb

Looking to the North Top from the Main Top

And back to the Main Top from the North Top

Heading for Ysgafell Wen North Top

Ysgafell Wen North Top looking to a shapely Moel Siabod

We then diverted to Ysgafell Wen Far North Top to look over to Snowdon

Moel Druman and Allt Fawr from Ysgafell Wen Main Top - this is a fascinating ridge walk with attractive mountain tarns all over but I imagine it would be horrible in mist with so many little peaks around

Allt Fawr from Moel Druman

The main Moelwyn peaks from Allt Fawr

The route ahead saw us head to the left of Llyn Conglog and follow the cliff edge round to the quarry workings.

This proved easy at first but suddenly there was a decent descent followed by an awkward traverse around the cliffs before another sharp, rocky descent. In hindsight we'd probably have been better retracing our steps over the two previous hills.

Down at the quarry now looking to a snowy Moelwyn Mawr

Moel-yr-hydd summit

Moelwyn Mawr from the top of the North Ridge

Trig point on Moelwyn Mawr

Moelwyn Bach over Craigysgafn

Looking down on Llyn Stwlan

The final climb to Moelwyn Bach

The descent route back to Croesor from Moelwyn Bach

[Riverman]

Big route and great photos! Can't wait to do these. Cnicht is such a cool looking mountain.

[Broggy1]

It certainly is. We stayed in Porthmadog and Cnicht is so visible from the town at every turn.

It also looks so much bigger than it is. Superb hill.

[ChrisW]

Thats a damn good round Broggy, nice to see you were able to do it in decent weather. Love the 'Matterhorn of Wales'..looks just like it