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Nameless Peak

‘Nameless’ had a more romantic ring in the good old days of the 1-inch maps when it was known as pt 2636. However, despite the dark craggy face it shows to Nant yr Ogof, and views which are well up to Glyders’ standards, there is little of interest and this small peak is seldom visited except as a staging post on the long trek from Glyder Fach to Gallt yr Ogof. The best thing about it is the ascent over Braich y Ddeugwm, a breezy, open walk which never fails to engender a ‘good-to-be-alive’ feeling.

Braich y Ddeugwn route (GL13)

No other walk displays Tryfan’s prodigious architecture to better advantage, especially when capped with a powdering of snow or frost.

A stile beside Gwern Gof Isaf Farm gives access to a grassy crest that is too gentle and rounded to be called a ridge. This rises in easy steps and ledges mingled with knuckles of rock until, higher up, a more defined path leads to the marshy shoreline of Llyn y Caseg-fraith. The nameless peak is then but 10min E up bare, featureless slopes.

Those are the facts. What they do not convey is the overpowering presence of Tryfan across the cwm. Towering aloft in splendid isolation, the massive gullies of its E face illuminated by the morning sun, it is the very epitome of mountainly grandeur. Yet, strange to relate, in over 30 years I have never once spied a fellow walker on this lovely route.

Miners’ Track N or S (GL14/15)

You can also reach Llyn y Caseg-fraith by following the miners’ track as described in either GL1 or GL6, thus giving two more routes to the nameless peak – GL14 from Ogwen, GL15 from Pen y Gwryd.