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Regions - Trip reports, destination advice, recommended routes, etc. => Wales => Topic started by: - Dave - on 22:05:39, 06/11/17
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Some of the finest mountains in Snowdonia and, in my opinion, not as bad as everyone seems to make out
http://allthegearbutnoidea.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-rhinogs.html
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Brilliant photos and trip report Dave, thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Alan
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That looks an epic day out - fantastic photos - and not a single other person out there by the looks of it!
Paul
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Utmost respect Dave. I've never managed all the Rhinog summits you visited in a single walk. I've always treated R.Fawr as a stand alone walk from either Cwm Bychan or Graig Ddu Isaf and it's a good march back to either location from Diffwys!
Again in doing so I manage to avoid the drudge of a walk from Maes y Garnedd to the start of the western path up R. Fawr. Without detracting in any way from a superb effort, I prefer the northern approach to R. Fawr from Llyn Du. Better scenery. Couldn't do it early this year as the mountain was cordoned off after the fatal helicopter crash and I gave it a decent interval before I went on it.
And that climb from Llyn Hywel slabs to the top of Y Llethr will probably be the death of me one day!
There's not a single photo on your blog which I don't immediately recognise and apart from seeing the hills through someone elses eyes they bring back years of memories from a mis-spent youth through to what I describe as later middle age.
Thank you very much for posting.
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Having walked in the Rhinogydd, albeit not extensively I really enjoyed that read O0
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Excellent, Dave - thank you :)
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Really nice write up and an excellent area, I've walk the Rhinogs three times always camped at Talsarnau and left the car there. Then walked up through Bryn Bwbach and onto Moel Ysgyfarnogod and followed the main ridge down to wild camp by Llyn Hywel. The next day walking to Barmouth for a pint in the pub with the painting of H.W.H. Tilman on the wall. The first time I did it we hitched back for the car, not recommended. The second we were a large group and so had positioned cars at each end. The last time we hid bike in the wood behind the layby where the path starts/ends (grid 623157) that was the best trip.
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That looks an epic day out - fantastic photos - and not a single other person out there by the looks of it!
True! It was mid-week so quieter anyway but I only encountered one person in Bwlch Drws-Ardudwy. After that, no one.
Penygadair - thanks for your advice on heading up to Llyn Cwmhosan, certainly seemed easier than the direct climb up Rhinog Fach from the pass. I'm really keen to revisit the northern parts and do Rhinog Fawr from Cwm Bychan - it looks like a better and more interesting route to me.
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Great pictures and another great day for it I have never been to the Rhinogs but it looks well worth a visit especially as it seems quieter than the Carneddau
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I'm really keen to revisit the northern parts and do Rhinog Fawr from Cwm Bychan - it looks like a better and more interesting route to me.
I'm not going to hijack your excellent thread but I will post a TR of the alternative routes to Rhinog Fawr summit. It may just give you an appetite for a second visit.
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I read this report in your blog the other night in bed :o :D I can sort of get my bearings as to where the Rhinogs are now but perhaps my nav isn't ready for remote pathless bog-dodging :-[
Great write up and pics O0
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Well it looks good to me O0
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Not sure how I've missed seeing this post but just caught up with the blog and really enjoyed it. O0
The Rhinogs have been on my radar for a year or so and the pictures/write up were a great inspiration to do it sooner than later.
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Great photos
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Lovely photos. One day i will venture there
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Its rare for me not to complete a walk, but that's exactly what happened on Saturday afternoon.
One of my local favourites, is to make directly for Bwlch Y Rhiwgyr, and then follow the ridge and famous Great Wall of Wales as far as Diffwys.
This was my plan, but the windchill and severity of the cold against my face, resulted in a detour, which meant i turned back having only managed roughly five or so miles.
Living on the coast, its not that often that severe windchill is a issue, but i recon the temperature was only about 3C out of the wind, and in the teeth of the wind, it was very painful, and i bet i would have suffered severe wind burn as well.
A real shame, as the views were impressive.
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The Rhinogs! What wonderful rough and tough little mountains. Seeing photos such as these makes me so glad that I have found this forum.
I can recommend starting from beautiful Cwm Bychan and approaching Rhinog Fawr via the Roman Stems.
I can also recommend heading north from the Roman Steps into some wonderfully rough 'Celtic Badlands' as they have been described, a land of heather, rock pavement, crag and bog to lose yourself in for an afternoon. I would love to wild camp here (but I live a bit far away right now).
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Nice write up. Like the Nantle ridge, this is another that I've been meaning to do for a long time. There's a couple of scramble routes listed on them too in the new Scrambles in Snowdonia book which I'd like to try and incorporate.
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Many walkers reading up about the Rhinogs, are under the impression that they are all brutal in nature, but this is far from the truth. :-[
So much is written and discussed about the area north of Yr lethr, with the outlying summits of Rhinog Fach, Fawr, and Moel Ysgyfarnogod, that the majority of potential visitors are kept away, thinking the entire range of mountains are savage in nature.
The summits of Yr Llethr, and Diffwys are amongst the easiest to traverse, and offer simply majestic views towards the rest of the Snowdonia range and on towards Cader Idris and Mid Wales.
The southern Rhinogs are very similar in certain respects to the Brecon Beacons, gentle grass terrain, and weather permitting, suitable for young and old.
If your after absolutely brutal terrain, enough to test even the best hardened walker, the Rhinogs can offer that in abundance, but if you want a new adventure in Southern Snowdonia, and most likely have the mountains to your self, the Southern Rhinogs towards Barmouth, come highly recommended.