Desent from Cnicht

I knew descending Cnicht to the west was going to be challenging and so it proved. I unwisely took the route down to the right/south west which was turned out to be a tricky rock face as seen in the photographs. I met my first follow walker/climber on this section. The dramatic difference between the two routes down was not evident from above. I later read in the Tony Drake’s guidebook to the Cambrian Way that the route to the left/south east was recommended.

Once off Cnicht the route down continued to be straightforward alternating between grassy desent interspersed with the occasional rocky section of a few feet. I passed about 10 parties on this section, quite a number were school children doing Duke of Edinburgh (they appeared to be sixth formers) and some scousers (they are common in north Wales!).Read more