Pass of Aber-Glaslyn

Having descended from Cnicht the next section began with a mile of road walking, sadly with much ascent (I was getting tired by now after 5 hours of walking). The road eventually lead into village of Nantmor which had a station for the Welsh Highland narrow gauge railway. The sun had been hot for a couple of hours so I stopped on a station bench to turn zip off trousers into shorts, top up my front water bottle and hoped to see a railway timetable. I am thinking I might spend a rest day on the railway towards end of my holiday.

A few hundreds yards further I arrived at Aberglaslyn for a walk through some woods ending at Pont Aberglaslyn (Aberglaslyn bridge). A rather splendid road bridge over the Afon Glaslyn.

From here the Cambrian Way followed the Afon Glaslyn (river Glaslyn) upstream on the formerly named ‘Fishermans path’ now a section of the Snowdonia Slate Trail. I was completely awed by this fabulous trail and unprepared for my slow progress on it. It began with steps over a few rocks changing to embankments shored up by trees, bridges, huge rocks with steps bolted into them and hand holds. All the while the height varying between a few feet to 40’/ 12m above the river. If you are ever in this part of the world I strongly recommend this trail which was certainly a highlight of the day for me.Read more