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| Name: | Foel-fras |
| Hill number: | 3365 |
| Height: | 586m / 1923ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2068 Manod Mawr |
| RHB Section: | 30D: Barmouth to Betws-y-Coed and Bala |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Moelwyns |
| County/UA: | Gwynedd, Conwy |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Conwy, Glaslyn |
| Watershed: | Cardigan Bay |
| Class: | Dodd (500-599m), Dewey (Tu,5,Dew) |
| Grid ref: | SH 72803 48165 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground by thick fence post |
| Drop: | 32m |
| Col: | 554m SH722482  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 115 (1:25k) OL18E |
| Observations: | ground for radius of 5m is as high; ground 85m W at SH 72716 48145 is 0.5m lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 163 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Moel Penamnen - A very straightforward continuation of route following a clear path. No issues. A rocky rib about 50m from the fence is a good place to stop for lunch. Top is by fence. Continued to Y Ro Wen. One very short steep section to descend but nothing too tricky. With Dan. | stig_nest | 10/02/2024 |
| Parked near Gwyndy- newydd to north and then up through forest to steep east slope of hill. Then on to Manod Mawr to complete Cardigan Bay watershed Tumps. | Campbell Singer | 15/10/2023 |
| 12.65 miles 2937ft walk ,start at A470 Blaenau Ffestiniog layby to Moel Farwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel Fras and Manod Mawr. | stephenbuda | 05/07/2023 |
| Blaenau Ffestiniog - Moel Penamnen - Foel-fras - Manod Mawr North Top - Blaenau Ffestiniog. Parked near the top of Lord Street. | Mark Jackson | 25/11/2022 |
| Parked in the small area 73636 50692 on the Roman road leading south from Dolwyddelan and headed due south to the head of the valley first on forest roads and then on the footpath through a deforested area to reach a high point of around 500 meters then followed a trod up to Foel fras, (from what I saw it might be possible to also add Y Ro Wen to this route if chosen too) Five and a quarter mile in Two and half hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 18/09/2022 |
| From Crimea Pass layby straight up to Moel Farlwyd and along to Moel Penamnen and Foel Fras and back. Low cloud and steady rain for the whole trip. Others went to zip world as a drier option. | richard69 | 06/06/2022 |
| 3/8 (Moel Farlwyd/Moel Pennamnen/Foel-fras/Y Ro Wen/Manod Mawr North Top/Manod Mawr/Manod Bach/Ffrid yr Allt-Llwyd) | Fergalh | 20/03/2022 |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/6528514095 | Sleepwa1ker | 15/01/2022 |
| Nuttalls route | Gary Heath | 01/06/2021 |
| From Crimea Pass. Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel Fras and Manod Mawr North Top. With B and R. | jenx | 25/05/2021 |
| A splendid walk along a mainly grassy ridge from the car park at Crimea Pass on a very warm September day, visiting Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel-fras and Y Ro Wen. Then return along the ridge, cutting below the summits on the south side to the Crimea Pass. Followed by a quick up and down of Moel Dyrnogydd. 18.5km with 810m ascent in 6 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 15/09/2020 |
| From Crimea Pass. Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel-fras, returned below Moel Penamnen (under the crags) then across A470 to climb Moel Dyrnogydd. Nice day with excellent views | RobertP | 06/09/2020 |
| Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnem & Foel Fras from Crimea Pass with Rufus. 7am start, took a few minutes to find the stile, I won’t give any more details to save you some fun! Out and back basically following the NP boundary on the OS map, cutting across a fence and gully above Llynau Barlwyd and traversing under the summit of Moel Penamnem on the return. Better terrain than I expected and a fast round trip of just under 2 hours. | jacobrichmond | 31/08/2020 |
| Parked in Lord Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog. Footpath through quarry to Llynau Barlwydd (nice swim). Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel-fras, Manod Mawr North Top, Manod Bach. | PGCE | 15/08/2020 |
| From Blaenau Ffestiniog taking in Moel Penamnen,Foel-Fras, Manod Mawr North Top & Manod Mawr. Beautiful clear winter day with a hoar frost, blue skies and extensive views. Difficult to navigate, finished in darkness with head torches. | Lazylizzie | 30/11/2019 |
| from crimea Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel Fras then return south of Moel Penamnen, res and Moel farlwyd hail and wind | underhill | 11/11/2019 |
| From the car-park at SH708443. Manod Bach, Monad Mawr, Foel Fras, Moel Penamnen, Moel Farlwyd | Geoff Briggs | 18/08/2019 |
| Nuttall walk | Dan Baddeley | 20/04/2019 |
| CMC walk | greenways | 15/12/2018 |
| follow the path via the book and it is a simple bag | Aristotle Chip | 12/01/2018 |
| From the car park at Crimea Pass. Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel-Fras and Y Ro Wen. Beautiful winter day, very cold but clear and sunny. | Alunrees33 | 24/11/2017 |
| 586m | The Grouse | 14/06/2017 |
| From Foel Fras took the path south of Moel Penamnen to this summit above the forest. Solo. Headed to Y Ro Wen. | bolton | 09/06/2017 |
| Nuttalls walk 5.4 with Frank. | Crib Goch | 09/04/2017 |
| Me Alf and James. | jrj | 05/01/2017 |
| From Cwm Penamnen. With Dad and Alfie | JamesD1972 | 05/01/2017 |
| 1.6 mile hike from Manod Mawr North Top. Took direct route across heather/grass moorland rather than following fence. A bit boggy with a coupe of good sizes hags and groughs to be negotiated round. Plumped for summit near think post on slight bend in fence though wandered around area to east in case 3 or 4 small grassy hillocks were higher. Also raised area to west looked higher from fence but looking back probably not. Went over that ground to Moel Penamnen anyway. | mntainman | 11/10/2016 |
| Continuation from Moel Penamnen. A bagger's path goes from Moel Penamnen, making this an easy ascent. Traversed below Foel-fras, Moel Penamnen and Moel Farlwyd back to the car park at the Crimea Pass. | Sprog | 09/10/2016 |
| Dolwyddelan Station car park (738522) - Forest roadway & then excellent track to Y Ro Wen - Followed fence line to edge of forest & then faint boggy path above edge of forest to fence post/small rock summit - N. for about 300m & then steep descent into Cwm Penamnen. (S) | gerrybowes | 24/08/2016 |
| From the car park at the Crimea Pass. Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel Fras, Y Rowen and Clogwyn Dolwyddelan. | AlunRees31 | 06/07/2016 |
| Nuttall Walk WN 5.4 East of and from Blaneau Ffestiniog. Moel Penamnen, Foel-fras, Manod Mawr North Top, Manod Mawr and Manod Bach. 13.7km with 850m ascent in 5 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 11/05/2016 |
| Nuttall walk 5.4: Moel Penamnen - Foel-fras - Manod Mawr North Top - Manod Mawr subsidiary top - Manod Mawr | ronaldo333 | 20/02/2016 |
| Solo. Wet and very windy. From Moel Penamnen. With worse weather due in shortly I followed the boundary fence to the track south of Llyn Bowydd and then went down. Storm Gutrude had arrived. Half a day of bog-trotting done. (it is very hard for the wind to blow you off course when you are hanging onto the fence to get round the bogs. The things we do for fun!) | Aimless Rambler | 28/01/2016 |
| added to Nuttall wlk 5.4, dry bright day, summit on fence. | Lou | 07/09/2014 |
| Parked on the main road just above Llechwedd were the path starts. Lost path after a while as GPS acting up which made for a bog slog. | destaylor | 15/04/2014 |
| From Blaenau Ffestiniog, a round of Manod Bach, Manod Mawr, NT, Foel-fras, Moel Penamnen, Moel Farlwyd and Moel Dyrnogydd. | rhalstead | 21/03/2014 |
| Walk from Dolwyddelan to Blaenau. Very boggy walk from Y Ro Wen then the cloud had the audacity to come down. Lost the path a bit but trudged around the highest ground before heading over to Moel Penamnen. | Jake994 | 02/01/2014 |
| Clockwise circular round from Blaenau Ffestiniog. Garreg Ddu - Moel Farlwyd - Moel Penamnen - Foel Fras - Manod Mawr North Top - Manod Mawr - Manod Bach. The extremely large building in Maen-offeren Quarries is well worth a peek inside. It's like an industrial museum. The descent off Manod Mawr to the northern tip of Llyn y Manod is fairly ghastly! | David Gradwell | 11/08/2013 |
| As part of a circular walk of Moel Farlwyd, Moel Penamnen, Foel Fras. Manod Mawr North Top, Manod Mawr and Manod Bach. | JohnStoneham | 04/06/2013 |
| From dolwyddelan, y ro wen, foel Fras, moel penmaen | spooksthehorse | 04/05/2013 |
| Penmachno - Dolwyddelan. Occasional vistas opened up between showers. | Smudge | 23/11/2012 |
| Between Moel Pananmen and Manod Mawr. | clivevilla | 26/08/2012 |
| 3rd hill of 6. From Moel Penamnen heading for the Manods. | Herbert Anchovy | 29/05/2012 |
| train station in Dolwyddellan. once on Y Ro Wen we headed S Skirting around the forrest before turning W and Heading up Foel-Fras, the continued to Moel Penamnen. Descended NNE to clearing then headed E. | Rekrab | 15/02/2012 |
| Blaenau Ffestiniog skyline from Manod Bach to Craig Nyth-y-Gigfran. | davidpettit84 | 13/11/2011 |
| Second day of CUHWC Caseg Fraith Trip. With DP. Entire Blaneau skyline from Manod Bach to Craig Nyth-y-Gigfran. Fantastic and interesting walk in excellent weather! | AGWilliamson | 13/11/2011 |
| Wild camp day 2 - Yr Arddu, Moel Meirch | fellowsa | 08/05/2011 |
| In mist until coming off Moel Penamnen getting round in 4 hrs 35 min. Navigation was very strange and Google Earth revealed the extent to which the quarry has grown since the maps were surveyed. Good day - shame about the weather. Anti-clockwise circuit. | SS | 10/10/2010 |
| Parked at GR 732 493. Walked to end of track then up through gap in trees then steeply up open grassland to summit. Continued to Ro-wen. With SH/RO. | wombourne | 13/07/2010 |
| Start ~ 736507, Car park. Followed old path up from Ty'n-y-Cwm, very overgrown with conifers. With Wombourne & Ron. | steve hudson | 13/07/2010 |