North Wales - Day 8

We left the site in the morning and drove to the old mining village of Croesor. Our plan was to walk up Cnicht, at 689m. The path goes steeply up to a ridge then more gently for a while.

Cnicht is known as the Welsh Matterhorn as from the south it looks a bit like it.

Towards the top the path gets much steeper again. The views were good, though it was very cloudy for most of the day.

We could could see back down towards the estuary at Porthmadog.

We could also see Snowdon to the north.

A rescue helicopter was below us and did a lot of hovering about, we never found out whether it was just training or actually looking for someone.

From the top we decided to go down to the head of the valley where the deserted Rhosydd slate quarry is, with heaps of slate waste and abandoned houses and industrial buildings.

We carried on round the head of the valley and up the mountain on the other side, Moelwyn Mawr at 770m. From near the top we could see down to Blaenau Ffestniog.

After a long walk down we drove to the same wild camping spot we'd used the previous week, Dolwydellan Castle car park. For dinner we had fish fingers, beans and fried potatoes which was great!