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| Name: | Moelwyn Bach |
| Hill number: | 2003 |
| Height: | 712m / 2336ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1994 Moelwyn Mawr |
| RHB Section: | 30B: Snowdonia |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Moelwyns |
| County/UA: | Gwynedd |
| Catchment: | Glaslyn |
| Class: | Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SH 66057 43777 |
| Summit feature: | rock |
| Drop: | 127m |
| Col: | 585.3m SH 6607 4410  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 124 (1:25k) OL18W |
| Observations: | rock rib 40m SW at SH 66031 43745 is of similar height; small pile of stones 60m NE at SH 66089 43824 is >1m 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 542 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Stwlan via mine track. A nice route - better than the weather thats for sure. Arrived at summit at the same time as a snowy front. Minimal views today. 3rd visit- didnt log august 2014 visit it seems. With Dan. Returned to Tanygrisau via a rather boggy descent to the dam overspill. | stig_nest | 24/02/2024 |
| neilmcoward | 13/01/2024 | |
| benwloudon | 21/11/2023 | |
| ThomasSmith_07 | 30/09/2023 | |
| Day two of Dragons Back Race | emily | 05/09/2023 |
| After Moelwyn Mawr, along the interesting ridge... | tim747 | 26/08/2023 |
| Last hill of the day on Nuttall route 5.3 . Solo. Free car park at Croesor. | Dangerous Dave | 21/07/2023 |
| Parked at upper Tanygrisiau car park and took the lower SW footpath (faint at times) up towards the dam and around the upper cwm to Bwlch Stwlan. Clear ridge path out and back to Moelwyn Bach and along to Craigysgafn, Moelwyn Mawr and Moel yr hydd. Return to 566m bwlch and SE descent to tarmac road from power station. Hot but hazy half day walk, very dry underfoot. Solo | richard69 | 12/06/2023 |
| Cnicht, Cnicht North Top, Foel Ddu, Moel-yr-Hydd, Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top, Moelwyn Mawr, Craigysgafn, Moelwyn Bach | keithouk | 11/06/2023 |
| Dawn Oldham | 11/06/2023 | |
| Cnicht, Cnicht north top, moel-yr-hydd, moelwyn mawr, craigysgafn, moelwyn bach. | Yr Eryr Aur | 20/05/2023 |
| jofaire | 19/05/2023 | |
| 1/13 (Moelwyn Bach/Craigysgafn/Moelwyn Mawr/Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top/Moel-yr-Hydd/Foel Ddu/Craig Llyn Llagi/Ysgafell Wen/Moel Drumman/Allt Fawr/Iwerddon/Y Ro Lwyd/Moel Drynogydd) | Fergalh | 08/04/2023 |
| JDMCGARRIGLE | 08/04/2023 | |
| Up the valley from the car park at Tanygrisau and around to Moel Hydd then follow the track around the top of the lake to Moelwyn Bach to bag the last couple of Moelwyns | andrewroberts | 05/04/2023 |
| from Tanygrisiau. Foel Ddu, Moel-Yr Hydd, Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top, Moelwyn Mawr, Craigysgafn, Moelwyn Bach and Craig Stwlan. | alunrees40 | 19/03/2023 |
| Moelwyn Bach > Moelwyn Bach SE Top from GR: SH 68325 45201 | Hippster | 11/02/2023 |
| Moelwyn Bach > Moelwyn Bach SE Top from GR: SH 68325 45201 | ronaldo333 | 11/02/2023 |
| Revisit for Craig Stwlan and M Bach SE Top (subNuttall) on a wet snowy day, from Tanygrisiau | RHW | 17/12/2022 |
| Parked at croesor. With Dave, Phil and Nick. Dry with couple of showers. Descended to coll then followed incline below Moelwyn Fawr. | alwaysinshorts | 01/10/2022 |
| From Croesor wuith Nick, Phil and Charles. Ascended through the remnants of the wood on the road to Tan y Bwlch to the ridge. Showery with increasing wind from the south. Our plan was to descend to Bwhch Stwlan then go over Moelwyn Mawr baqck to Croesor but cloud cover, increasing wind speed and lack of fitness detrred us and we went W across mining inclines to the descent path and then down. Very pleasant at the Brondanw Arms. | climbingkershaw | 01/10/2022 |
| NickiW | 25/09/2022 | |
| Last one for the day for me, again tough on the legs going up but really great views especially the Stwlan dam below. | Buckleymon | 14/09/2022 |
| daddybond | 09/07/2022 | |
| Circuit from car park above Tanygrisiau. Final hill of the day. | Grinner | 04/07/2022 |
| https://strava.app.link/DB0WwKtaJqb | rhif7 | 09/06/2022 |
| rickeeling | 02/06/2022 | |
| Base layer only all the way today, it doesn't get better than this. Clear and sunny. | WanderingSnowdonian | 05/05/2022 |
| From Tanygrisiau | welshe | 16/04/2022 |
| GuyF | 04/04/2022 | |
| robmurray | 26/03/2022 | |
| From Tanygrisiau, past Stwlan dam then onto Moelwyn Mawr and down to Cwmorthin, with Gareth | derrymark | 19/03/2022 |
| Nirobi99 | 05/03/2022 | |
| Moel-yr-hydd, Molwyn Mawr and Molwyn Bach circular walk from Tanygrisiau. If you follow the footpath on the OS map, its hard to find the path. I went upward scrambling, then finally got to the top and found an actual path. Then it was clear to the summit. From Moel-yr-Hydd, theres a clear path to Molwyn Mawr, a trig point at the top. I went along the ridge as its interesting. From Molwyn Mawr, theres nothing small about Molwyn Bach. You head down to the right and you have to cross two mounds to get the start of the path which is clear to the summit, its quite steep. I went over to some interesting stones and pools of water and then descended by the Tanygrisiau reservoir, which has a tarmac path all the way back to the car park. | Skarletk | 26/02/2022 |
| Yrarthblewog | 13/02/2022 | |
| last of the days circular Nuttall route. Exited due west through forestry and road to Croesor (16.00) | richardrosser | 06/12/2021 |
| borderline | 07/09/2021 | |
| Cnicht, Cnicht North Top, Moel yr Hydd, Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top, Moelwyn Mawr, Craigysgafn, Moelwyn Bach | Chris Williams | 01/09/2021 |
| ramblyandy | 04/08/2021 | |
| From Croesor -Cnicht, Cnicht N Top, Moel-yr-Hydd, wild Camp, Moelwyn Mawr N Ridge Top, Moelwyn Mawr, Moelwyn Bach. | lindslow | 25/07/2021 |
| Final of 7 tops today, navigation difficult in zero visibility, grateful the path back to the road was obvious almost all of the way. | colinfielding | 23/06/2021 |
| gomezhdm | 12/06/2021 | |
| Paddy Buckley Round recce Capel Curig to Rhyd-Ddu. | twg27 | 04/06/2021 |
| Cnicht and the southern Moelwyns from Tanygrisau. | Gary Heath | 30/05/2021 |
| TREBORK | 29/05/2021 | |
| Mark65Evans | 18/05/2021 | |
| Ffi24 | 02/04/2021 | |
| DFRYER | 29/09/2020 | |
| Chasejet | 14/09/2020 | |
| Tanygrisau, Llyn Stwlan, bwlch, steep path round east side to summit, back to bwlch and over Moelwyn Mawr, down through Rosydd quarries | Flatfield | 13/09/2020 |