Llyn y Fan Fawr

Wednesday: First part of today's walk was due north to Llyn y Fan Fawr shown in the photograph. There are two routes to the lake / llyn. An upper route along Fan Hir ridge and a lower route along the Beacons way. I had walked the upper route a few weeks ago with Cardiff Ramblers so took the lower route for variety. This was a 1150' / 350m ascent over 4 miles which took me 3:30 including lunch stop. Route was over a reasonable surface, mostly worn down to soil or stones, but often grassed.

From Llyn y Fan Fawr there are well laid large stone steps up onto Bwlch Gledd saddle. On the saddle south west wind increased dramatically because I was out of the lee of the ridge. Then a laid path of variously large flagstones or gravel up onto today's objective, check point 14 Fan Brycheiniog.Read more