Training

The walk will be a great deal easier if you can familiarise yourself with the route. Ideally you could do this through three training walks – the Snowdon, Glyder and Carnedd sections of the walk . However, walks that are not circular are often not practical. I have therefore included five circular walks that cover the full length of the Welsh 3000s.
In this section you will need to refer back to the other route sections of this website.

Snowdon section

Walk the Snowdon section of the Welsh 3000s.
Once you get to the A4086 road, you can turn right and walk back along the road to the start point. This is a fairly busy road with no pavement, but above Blaen-y-nant you can walk in fields on the left hand side for most of its length. Alternatively, you can use the bus service from the "Park and Ride" at Nant Peris.

Glyder section

Walk One

Park in Nant Peris.
Follow the Glyder section of the Welsh 3000s route until you get to the lake Llyn y Cwn before Glyder Fawr.
Turn right before the lake. A path will lead you back to the A4086 road above Nant Peris.
Turn right down the road. It is not far to the start point.

Walk Two

Park in the car park near the Youth Hostel at Llyn Ogwen (SH 649 604)
Take the path that leads up the right hand side of Y Garn (a broken black line on the Ordnance Survey map).

photo from www.walkingbritain.co.uk

Follow the Welsh 3000s route back down to the A5.
You now have two choices:
1. Turn left along the A5, where a short walk takes you back to the start point.
2. Climb Pen yr Ole Wen via the Welsh 3000s route and come back down directly to the start point via a steep path (marked on photo below).

photo from www.walkingbritain.co.uk

Carnedd section

If you can arrange transport at the end-point, the best option is to complete this section in one walk. If this is not possible, here are two circular walks:

Walk One

Park near Glan Dena at Llyn Ogwen.
Follow the Carnedd section of the Welsh 3000s route until you reach the summit of Carnedd Llewelyn, having already climbed Yr Elen.
Climb Pen yr Helgi Du.
Descend Y Braich.

photo from www.walkingbritain.co.uk

Continue over a wall then a leat, then follow the path on the map which meets the A5 road as far to the right as possible.
Cross the A5. A path follows the line of the road back to the start point.

Walk Two (for an Abergwyngregyn finish)

Park at the first car park you come to after passing through Abergwyngregyn village (This car park is before the bridge at SH 662 720). Alternatively, cross the bridge and take the first road on your right, which is another car park.
Start out along the track to the Aber Falls waterfall.
Turn left off this track at SH 665 717 onto a path through a wooded area. This leads to an ascent diagonally across scree to the top of the waterfall.
Follow the Afon Goch stream through the centre of the valley.
The path fades out further up the valley, but if you use your compass you can navigate directly to the summit of Garnedd Uchaf (Carnedd Gwenllian).
Climb Foel Grach and Carnedd Llewelyn.
Follow the Welsh 3000s route back down to the top car park above Abergwyngregyn.
Walk down the road a couple of miles to your start point. (If you know the area well you can avoid the road walk by descending through the woods on the left instead.)