Walk lead by Peter Hitchcock, 10 miles, total climb 2360ft.
You’ll be delighted that the last walk of the season at Trefiw offers you woodland
paths, Forestry tracks, relics of the slate-mining days, and Fell paths that offer
fantastic views of the Carneddau range – even in the rain! But, it will be a fairly hard
graft route with lots of “uppies and downies” being Wales!! Although we climb to only
1000ft amsl, the total climb range during the walk is 2360ft with a similar amount of
downs, but all within your excellent capabilities.
From the car park, with its free toilets, we head south along the main road for about
200 yds before skirting off into an extensive woodland area – all Welsh National Park
- and up to the Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall. Unfortunately, the path to the fall itself is
locked due to the risk of falling trees (local ‘elf & safety!) but you can see some of it
from our standpoint.
We continue on westwards to a lookout point before climbing up through disused
mine buildings and on to the 2 high level lakes we shall see today: ‘Llyn Geirionydd’
and ‘Crafnant’. Between the two there will be tremendous views of the Snowdonian
mountains. We turn back towards Trefiw staying in the national park all the way,
passing some interesting points en route.
A varied trek at 10 miles but quite muddy and slippery in places due to the wet so
over-trousers or gaiters would be beneficial if you have them. We also cross about a
dozen strong stiles. See you there!
