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| Name: | Pen y Garn |
| Hill number: | 2205 |
| Height: | 611m / 2005ft |
| RHB Section: | 31C: South-West Wales |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Central Wales - Pumlumon |
| County/UA: | Cardiganshire [Ceredigion] |
| Catchment: | Rheidol, Catchment Boundaries, Ystwyth |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SN 79857 77148 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground by gate |
| Drop: | 194m |
| Col: | 417m SN796839  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 135 147 (1:25k) 213 |
| Observations: | embedded rock by trig point 65m S at SN 79847 77084 is 0.1m lower |
| Survey: | Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 406 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| haylesb | 01/04/2024 | |
| Parked at The Archway carpark, followed forestry path up, lots of options. Nice circular walk back to carpark. | Hippy77 | 13/02/2024 |
| neilmcoward | 10/02/2024 | |
| Yrarthblewog | 06/11/2023 | |
| Martyn1 | 07/09/2023 | |
| Glenysj21 | 07/09/2023 | |
| Parked at the Arch and ascended+descended as per Nuttall walk 11.2. With R. | Dan Baddeley | 29/04/2023 |
| A good 3 hour drive down into beautiful countryside, this was my first mountain with our new puppy Narla. Nice and easy and very straightforward to ascend, real shame to see the wind turbines on the tops spoiling the views. | Buckleymon | 19/04/2023 |
| ThomasSmith_07 | 15/04/2023 | |
| Alan Reading | 01/03/2023 | |
| Sarah's February Nuttall with Milo. | Rob Rees | 22/02/2023 |
| /7533227902 | ravioli7938 | 27/11/2022 |
| Last Nuttall in South Wales. Room for one car to pull in on the N side of the road just W of the sharp bend at SN791753, but almost got the car stuck on the slippery, muddy steep grass verge. Treat with caution! From there, as others have described, mostly on tracks. Note the summit is not the trig point but 65m further north. | Mark Jackson | 24/11/2022 |
| JDMCGARRIGLE | 20/11/2022 | |
| From the free Arch car park - Nuttall 11.2 - up forest track with views east. Once out of forest followed faint path beyond farm gate to the right of bwf to the summit. Rain started at the top and then most of the way back. 200yr old beech trees just off route in autumn colours looked amazing. | richard69 | 21/10/2022 |
| HH | 26/09/2022 | |
| With Alex (run) | haydnw | 24/09/2022 |
| Ben Rinnes | 19/09/2022 | |
| From Woodlands Campsite at Devils Bridge, path leads straight from campsite with mostly forest tracks to summit. | dgresty | 02/07/2022 |
| Lovely forest with plenty of birds singing. Cairn at top like a spiral. With Gmac the guide | elizyanne | 29/06/2022 |
| GmacT | 29/06/2022 | |
| oldbagger27 | 16/06/2022 | |
| Lovely day, bit windy. Mostly forestry tracks. | andrewroberts | 11/06/2022 |
| ARC | 16/04/2022 | |
| Nirobi99 | 10/04/2022 | |
| GuyF | 04/04/2022 | |
| Jason Lane | 23/03/2022 | |
| ceriroberts | 21/02/2022 | |
| rickeeling | 03/01/2022 | |
| sionbrit | 16/10/2021 | |
| As others. Parked at the Arch. Nutalls walk 11.2. Track to end of forest,through a gate then about 300m to summit. Then track along ridge and down to meet Wye Valley way, then down track and ROW past Geihlast farm. 6.5 miles easy track walking, < 2hrs 25 walking time | JulieB | 04/10/2021 |
| An evening walk after a walk in Elan valley. Having failed to get here the previous day due to a road closure east of Cwmystwyth took the long way round. Started at bend in road due south, had to go a little way down the western branch of the road to the second house using their parking space as house appeared to be unoccupied. First section of path long abandoned, overgrown and boggy. A sign drew me into the fields to the east and an ascent involving at least eight barbed wire fences resulting in torn trousers. At the end there is a track not shown on the map going right to the summit. Followed the good track down to within 3/4 kilometre of the start and used the boggy and overgrown path - but no barbed wire! A pleasant short walk except for the start, I suspect the route from The Arch mentioned by others works out better though is a good deal longer. If you use my route take care with the parking and persevere with the initial boggy path, two ruined buildings give an indication of t | dickscroop | 25/09/2021 |
| Room for one car at sharp bend to south. Farmer disagreed. Once tracks reached easy going to top and down towards Truman. | lordtonult | 20/09/2021 |
| Up from the arch | sebastiencale | 28/08/2021 |
| from The Arch, via forest. Back to Cwmystwyth. | IanHHill | 23/05/2021 |
| Smog | 07/05/2021 | |
| Charli Wisbey | 18/04/2021 | |
| Elwyn_Summers | 18/04/2021 | |
| From the Arch car park | AndrewP | 14/04/2021 |
| Thankful for good forestry and wind farm roads. Trig pillar S5593 | vegibagger | 18/10/2020 |
| From Arch through forest. Was getting dark. | Dewi Prysor | 16/10/2020 |
| From the Arch returned via Gelmast. Very windy and later turned wet also. | NormanW | 02/10/2020 |
| Barry Smith | 24/08/2020 | |
| from arch via truman, nutall route from track stunning views at top with Manon on to cefn croes | underhill | 11/07/2020 |
| Parking at the picnic area near The Arch. Up the track to turbines and short cross moor to summit. Much drier than the other routes read about, and easy to descend in the dark following lovely sunset over a fog bound Cardigan Bay. 3/3 Marilyn. Short cut directly to track rather than the loop via turbines. | N.Morters | 23/01/2020 |
| From bend in minor road to the south. The first section of path is very wet, but persevere, they then improve and the rest of the route is very pleasant with good views. | Winterfloodian | 16/09/2019 |
| JDMCGARRIGLE | 16/09/2019 | |
| From the south starting at minor road hairpin after parking 100m further south. Path shown on map is a swamp. Tracks are then OK, there is an unmarked track up the crest of the south ridge to the summit. Wind turbines on north side. | Topographer57 | 07/09/2019 |
| Jrobholland | 31/08/2019 | |
| From Arch CP | Slash3 | 24/08/2019 |