Area: Berwyn
Some sections of this outing were so obscure that even I had never been there before. The long spell of perfect high pressure continues and I set off from Cynwyd up the familiar route of the North Berwyn Way under deep blue skies. This leads up steep lanes to a now overgrown path through woods (it doesn't seem to be getting enough traffic) and then the wide open spaces of the Berwyn moorland proper. It is a long haul to the top of Moel Fferna - I've done it in 45 minutes in the past but was glad just to break the hour today. So far, so familiar, with the usual expansive views across to Cadair Berwyn (very clear today). However, I then embarked on a long traverse of the undulating land over to the Wayfarer's Pass. This does have a very narrow - 6 inch wide - path through the heather, but it all takes some time as the path is very tenuous and the terrain awkward. Wonderfully empty and remote though, even by the standards of the range. And my feet were dry - this is an extreme novelty in the Berwyn! I passed over the minor top of Cerrig Coediog and then a longer climb up Cefn Perfedd (also known as Pen y Lladron, interestingly) which has two marker stones on top. The path improves and widens over this top although that is temporary. It got a little boggy and hard to follow up to the final top, which I have been up before (many years ago), generally known as Pen Bwlch Llandrillo. From here it is a short trot down to the Wayfarer's Pass. I was much more tired than I had expected to be, and this continued for the long but entirely runnable descent down lovely tracks to Cynwyd, reversing the Tegid Way that we did for our long festive outing in 2019.
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