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<\/p>\nThe weather looked promising for this activation of two new summits for me.\u00a0 This is a route that is overshadowed by it\u2019s more illustrious neighbours to the South but it is well worth doing, offering a mix of just about everything Snowdonia has to offer terrain wise and 22 SOTA points as well.<\/p>\n
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Parking is easy at the Gwern Gof Isaf campsite at\u00a0SH 685 601.\u00a0 Pop in and pay the farmer his \u00a32 and for your money you will receive a days parking and some great local advice on conditions and the route.<\/p>\n
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Cross the road to the obvious track heading NE.\u00a0 Follow this to the bend where you will see the remains of a building on the right.\u00a0 Turn here. Initially there is not much sign of the path but you should soon pick it up, it becomes more obvious as you approach the reservoir.\u00a0 The final push up to Bwalch Ery Farchog is a bit steep in places but nothing too difficult.\u00a0 Once on the ridge, follow it to the left, NW along a fairly clear path.\u00a0 ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5548-1024x575-1-300x168.jpg\")
There is a short section at\u00a0SH 692 635 that will require scrambling skills.\u00a0 It\u2019s not too difficult, approach it to the right then traverse along a small ledge to the left and up.\u00a0 Just after this section there is a fork in the path, take the right fork, although\u00a0 it looks steeper it\u2019s an easier path.\u00a0\u00a0From the crags of Craig yr Ysfa it\u2019s an easy stroll across Penywaun-wen and up onto the summit of\u00a0Carnedd Llewelyn.<\/p>\n
We set up the station in the shelter of the summit cairn.\u00a0 By this time the wind was up around 30 \u2013 40 mph and the temperature was well below freezing.\u00a0 I soon had seven contacts in the log.<\/p>\n
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Once we had packed up we headed back down to the ridge and on towards\u00a0Pen Llithrig y Wrach.\u00a0 The down scramble at the crags was no more difficult than coming up but care does need to be taken.<\/p>\n
From the bwlch continue SE to gain the height of Pen yr Helgi Du.\u00a0 This is a quite imposing ascent that looks far more dramatic than it is.\u00a0 Keep your nerve and stick to the path up and you will soon reach the top where it opens out onto the flatter summit plateau.\u00a0 Stick with the path and drop back down into Bwalch y Tri Marchog and then climb the final ascent up onto\u00a0Pen Llithrig y Wrach.<\/p>\n Once we arrived at the summit we quickly set up the station and soon had four contacts in the log including a summit to summit contact with\u00a0GW7HEM\/P on Mynd Langorse which I was very pleased to get as SW-015 is well known as a difficult summit to activate on VHF.<\/p>\n By this time the weather was coming in and the wind was still ferocious so we didn\u2019t hang around on the summit but headed back down to calmer conditions.\u00a0 There is the option to just take a bearing down the side of the hill but the fence marked on the map was fairly substantial where we crossed it at the bwalch so I was not sure we wouldn\u2019t end up following it back North to the stile in the bwalch, rather we opted to follow the path back down and take a bearing from there.\u00a0 There is no obvious path ondown\u00a0from here\u00a0 but the dyke running West to East is very obvious and impossible to miss.\u00a0 There is a good path along the South side of the dyke leading back to the access road and down to the A5.<\/p>\n Date \u2013 16th February 2019<\/p>\n Postcode \u2013 LL24 0EU<\/p>\n Parking \u2013 SH 685 601.<\/p>\n Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n Antenna \u2013 MFJ Longranger<\/p>\n Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n Contacts \u2013 7 + 4<\/p>\n SOTA points \u2013 10 (+3) + 6 (+3) = 22<\/p>\n Group \u2013 Myself & Richard<\/p>\n The weather looked promising for this activation of two new summits for me.\u00a0 This is a route that is overshadowed by it\u2019s more illustrious neighbours to the South but it is well worth doing, offering a mix of just about everything Snowdonia has to offer terrain wise and 22 SOTA points as well. Parking is … Continue reading Carnedd Llewelyn & Pen Llithrig y Wrach 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-north-wales","category-summits-on-the-air","category-welsh-summits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions\/931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5552-1-300x169-1.jpg\")
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GW\/NW-013 Log<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nJourney Details<\/h3>\n
Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n
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