Walk Foel Goch from Cefn-ddwysarn
Quiet lonely hills
This 6 mile, Grade 4 (Moderate), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Cefn-ddwysarn in Snowdonia & will take you about 3½ hrs to complete.
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| Walk No.: | gw108 | |
| Length: | 6 miles (9.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 1364 ft (416m) | |
| Time: | 3½ hours | |
| Grade: |  | |
Route outline for this walk:
Cefn-ddwysarn - Pentre-tai-yn-y-cwm - Nant Cwm Da - Foel Goch (Arenigs) - Garnedd Fawr - Nant Cefn-coch - Cefn-ddwysarn
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 1 Welsh Mountain |
 0 Wainwrights |
 1 Welsh Nuttall |
 1 Welsh Dewey |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Welsh Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Foel Goch (Arenigs) at 611m (2005ft). Foel Goch (Arenigs) is classified as a Welsh Mountain (Hewitt) (132nd highest in Wales, 310th highest in England & Wales)
Foel Goch (Arenigs) is also known as a Welsh Nuttall (184th highest in Wales, 433rd highest in England & Wales) and a Welsh Marilyn (52nd highest in Wales, 748th highest in the UK).
Foel Goch (Arenigs) means 'Red Bare Hill' in Welsh and is pronounced 'foil-gokh'.
The summit of Foel Goch (Arenigs) is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Garnedd Fawr at 569m (1867ft). Garnedd Fawr is also known as a Welsh Dewey (51st highest in Wales, 92nd in England & Wales)
You can find this walk and other nearby walks on these unique Interactive Walk Planning Maps:
(worth a look if you're new to go4awalk.com & have never seen one of these before.)
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (orange/yellow covers):
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (pink/magenta covers):
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