The cooker was broken, so we couldn’t have a fry-up, but they did manage an egg bap and scrambled eggs with cockles and laver bread (very nice).
We drove down the road to a petrol station and filled the car up and bought some sandwiches and crisps for lunch, then on to the Dol Idris car park. The car park was pretty full, but we found a spot and set off. Steep steps up a wooded gorge to start with (we saw a Redstart), then onto open rocky and heathery moorland.
We took the Minffordd path on the way up, supposedly the shortest but steepest route.
We stopped for a bit by the lake, Llyn Cau, a glacial cwm.
Towards the top it was scrambling up over rocks, and the final part to the trig point was all boulders. A Red Kite floated up on the thermals below us.
Lots of people on the top, maybe 50.
We ate our sandwiches and then walked along the ridge to the east to Mynydd Moel. It was much quieter here, but a bit further on we met a couple of women and walked with them for a bit, one came from Leominster the other from Oxfordshire. They went down the slope while we carried on around the side.
At the end of the ridge we turned right and followed a fence down the slope, and then came a very steep rocky section which we did mostly on bums.
Then we dropped down to near the road and walked parallel with it for a bit on a footpath and then down a bridle path alongside the river. Lots of sheep in the path. There were Cuckoos calling around about.
Walking back into the car park the two women we met earlier were just driving out, they said their route had been steep too. We walked a bit further back up the trail to the cafe and had a drink and some cake. Then we walked around the small lake next to the car park.
