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Pen y Bryn-Fforchog

It may seem a bit ‘cart-before-horse’ to give only one route for a hill and then suggest it is best used for descent, but no one is likely to climb Pen y Bryn-fforchog (Top of the Forked Hill) for its own sake with so much else around. After all it is merely the top of a grassy shelf that bounds, yet barely surmounts, the SW periphery of the Glasgwm plateau. However if you tackle Pen y Bryn-fforchog from Glasgwm, having spent the morning tramping AN21, and then use the Bwlch Oerddrws route to get down again, you are assured of an enjoyable day in peace and solitude, seeing old friends from new angles and discovering untrodden ground.

Bwlch Oerddrws route (AN24)

A fence makes a right-angled bend where it straddles the top at 818179. Follow it SW down a fresh grassy slope that is a joy on a sunny afternoon with Cribin staring you full in the face from across the valley. As you approach a hillock at 810174 you must decide whether to bear L or R. Pleasant ridges continue either way; it all depends on where you want to join the road.