Another circuit of the hills and lakes around Blaenau Ffestiniog, including several previously unvisited 500m tops from the Dewey list and some new lakes to add new ground to explore in this lovely area, one of our favourites.
This route turned out to be a good choice for the conditions: the first spell of dry weather for ages but with variable amounts of cloud and mist at high levels and often hazy distant views. The walk concentrates particularly on the plentiful lakes and includes some wild, tough but beautiful landscape and local industrial heritage from the old quarries. The ground was often very wet from the excessive accumulated rain but it couldn’t dampen the spirit with jewels like these, you just get used to the squelching noise after a while!.
This was a very welcome break from the frustrating technicalities of the past week or two, there is plenty to catch up on now including the announcement of the new mountain for Wales: I missed the press conference in Maentwrog on Friday.
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I like the wild remote look of it. Lots of lakes and the like. Linking them makes a good route. Great photos as all ways.
Thanks Martin, it was a great round and we only saw two people on the hill in the whole three days. It shows how different ideas of good walks can be when compared with poor Northern Walker who drove to Langdale and had to retreat, having failed to find anywhere to park!.