| Name: | Yr Aran |
| Hill number: | 1997 |
| Height: | 747.2m / 2451ft |
| County/UA: | Gwynedd |
| Topographical area: | WN02 Snowdon-eilio |
| SMC/RHB section: | 30B: Snowdonia |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Snowdon |
| Catchment: | Glaslyn |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem, Trail 100 (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm,T100) |
| Grid ref: | SH 60440 51531 |
| Summit feature: | rock by cairn |
| Drop: | 238.4m |
| Col: | 508.8m SH 6052 5214  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 115 (1:25k) OL17W |
| Observations: | small knoll 25m NE is 1.0m lower |
| Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica 530 Survey of Craig Wen.pdf |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 717 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Up and down from the Watkin Path | Arbie | 28/09/2024 |
| Snowy | Poppyhillwalker | 18/01/2024 |
| With Nick and Rufus from Rhyd Ddu. Yr Aran and Craig Wen. | jacobrichmond | 28/11/2023 |
| After departing Martin's birthday weekend. Pretty damp, lots of waterfall action. | Grinner | 24/09/2023 |
| Nice gradual walk from Rhyd Ddu village following Snowdon Ranger path initially. Nice and steady until 3/4 of the way. Bits of scrambling to work towards the summit | CofiStevenStyle | 16/09/2023 |
| solo | Fabioski | 24/08/2023 |
| Offshoot doing the North section of the Cambrian Way. | andrewroberts | 12/08/2023 |
| From Rhyd Ddu up to old quarry. Followed wall up to summit Yr Aran. Continued on to Craig Wen then back to quarry path using tricky to follow paths. Muddy in places. Windy day. | Yr Eryr Aur | 29/07/2023 |
| With Martin Kimberley. Followed the Trail Magazine route from the Watkin Path car park at Pont Bethania, where there were several spaces still at 9:30 am. Good route, great views. | gbeniston | 20/07/2023 |
| Roadside parking in Bethania, SW of Nantgwynant car park (full). Followed the start of the Watkin Path then took the left hand fork above the waterfall. Up grassy slopes to join the east ridge. Followed the wall almost to the summit. Large trig bolt in rock near hp. Descended south, following the wall to climb Dinas Hill (388m). Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 13/07/2023 |
| ML training course! | Joel451 | 13/07/2023 |
| Started from Rhyd Ddu on excellent path to old mine. Thereafter followed wall and tiny path to summit. Joined by Laura on her first mountain. | Crumblie2 | 26/06/2023 |
| Sunny morning. Weather got colder. Some snow above 600m. But what a summit with stunning views. With my Dad. | simonjallen | 14/03/2023 |
| From Nant Gwynant in winter conditions. | alunrees40 | 21/01/2023 |
| Watkins Path from Bethania to quarry near east ridge. Very windy with heavy rain/hail showers. Returned via north ridge in fading light. | lordtonult | 06/11/2022 |
| Up Watkin Path to quarry, up Cambrian Way to col, ascent of Yr Aran. Decscent to quarry on southern slopes, explore and back to base of Watkin Path | andrew.morel | 04/11/2022 |
| From Rhyd Ddu | gettingonabit | 02/10/2022 |
| 6.4 mile out-and-back from Rhyd-Ddu car park up Rhyd-Ddu path the onto track to the old quarries crossing a ladder stile and ascending steep but easy slopes up to ridge and then to summit. 568m ascent. The views today were amazing. Not a cloud in the sky and not too hazy taking in most of Southern Snowdonia and all of Cardigan Bay and dare I say the best view of Snowdon from another mountain. Great little summit too. A hidden gem of a mountain. | DanTrig | 16/06/2022 |
| From Nant Peris. Watkin path up to Yr Aran, continuing onto Craig Wen before descending to join the path from Craflwyn to return to the Watkin path. | alunrees39 | 14/05/2022 |
| With Pete, Tom, Joel, Ella, & Corwyn. Windy & claggy day, although not as bad as MWIS suggested. Circuit from Rhyd Ddu, returning via the new path to Pont Cae Gors and a quick trip to Llyn Llywelyn in Beddgelert Forest. | millionmts | 04/04/2022 |
| 12 | MarkFrench | 09/02/2022 |
| From Rhyd Ddu, during ML training exped. | derrymark | 22/10/2021 |
| With Angie | simon and co | 18/09/2021 |
| Cracking day doing Yr Aran and Snowdon via the Watkin path. Weather was bad for August with cloud for most of the day. Started late (11am) to wait for the worst to pass. Struggled finding the path split at first for Yr Aran across the bog but soon found my way towards higher ground. Summited around 2pm for a perfectly timed 30 second break in the clouds. Whole way up and back to the Watkin without seeing another. | MysteriousSue | 16/08/2021 |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/5714988277 | rhif7 | 31/07/2021 |
| This was my final Welsh Marilyn and my 1551st and final one so walked up from Rhydd Ddu with my wife, and summitted with Chris, Alex, Barry and Dan. Enjoyed the company together with the usual summit celebrations. Excellent walking conditions and a beer at the Cwellan afterwards. | NormanW | 02/07/2021 |
| Snowdon and Yr Aran from Rhyd Ddu | Gary Heath | 04/06/2021 |
| From Bethania, up the Watkin Path then north east to Gallt y Wennalt, followed horseshoe route over Y Lliwedd, traverse around Cwm Tregalan to Bwlch Cwm Llan, then ascent of Yr Aran before final descent to Watkin path. Warm, sunny day with little wind. Summit of Yr Aran to ourselves, a very fine viewpoint. Total of 12.5 miles in 8 hours. | Marksalop | 31/05/2021 |
| from bethenia cp, £3 for 4hrs, £6 all day, same route as the previous post. couldnt have chosen a clearer day. | bardolph | 07/05/2021 |
| An excellent hill with great views of the Snowdon massif. Walked with Lindsey from Bethania carpark (given a free ticket by departing driver). Cloudy-bright, light wind. Started up Watkin Path at 10am. Impressive mining ruins. Into Cwm Llan then up steep grass following faint path up to the ridge. Followed wall west until wire fence then over stile and up steep short path to Yr Aran summit. Had lunch then rumbles of thunder so retraced route (with detour to see Gladstone's Rock). Rained during the walk-out. Back to car about 4pm giving approx 5 hours walking time. Route approx 5 miles, 2,100 ft ascent. | Skip | 02/05/2021 |
| Yr Wyddfa South Horseshoe: Y Lliwedd - Yr Wyddfa - Yr Aran from Pont Bethania | JHes | 29/04/2021 |
| From Nantgwynant. Yr Aran and Craig Wen. | WelshMountainGoat38 | 25/04/2021 |
| ML Course wild camp day 1. Ascent from Bethania via Cwm Llan | lindslow | 16/10/2020 |
| from Craig Wen | IWC | 01/12/2019 |
| Via the Watkin path for Snowdon from Nantgwynant/Bethania car park. With a small group from Hiking Manchester. Varied day, with some mist, but also some great views. | Lazylizzie | 03/11/2019 |
| With Dave Wragg in round from Rhyd Ddu inc Snowdon, in improving weather, no rain. | Rounsfell | 31/08/2019 |
| From Nantgwynant via Watkin's Path. Onwards to Snowdon summit. Descend from Snowdon via south ridge and climbed to summit of Yr Aran. Return via path making a descending traverse north of the east ridge, pausing to look at disused mine workings (marked) from which old mining tramways were used to return to the valley bottom and return to the starting point. With Mike Raffe. | raffemeister | 28/08/2019 |
| Followed Nuttall route 3.3 very pleasant walk | JulieB | 17/08/2019 |
| Round of Yr Aran, Snowdon and Y Lliwedd from Bethania CP. East ridge, then back down east ridge as far as stone wall before left turn towards Snowdon. | Topographer57 | 01/08/2019 |
| Yr Aran and Mynydd Mawr out and back to each from Rhydd-ddu. 20km with 1100m ascent in 6 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 06/05/2019 |
| Snowdon via Watkin path with Mike Wilkinson, Vanessa & Daniel Howells (WBMC) | JtwoUD | 23/04/2019 |
| Cerdded o Rhyd Ddu. Gyda Rhiannon. | sionbrit | 22/04/2019 |
| Traverse over Crib Goch down to Rhyd Ddu | N.Morters | 09/04/2019 |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/4261355647 | Sleepwa1ker | 07/04/2019 |
| Route: Rhyd Ddu – Bwlch Cwm Llan – Yr Aran – Craig Wen – Rhyd Ddu. Stats: 3hrs51, 12.16km, 647.5m ascent. Weather: cold & extremely windy (55mph), but clear skies. Notes: snow/ice on ground (up to waist-deep in places); lost hat after wind blew it over the edge during ascent; original aim of Snowdon abandoned due to winds (although BJ summited). | millionmts | 05/04/2019 |
| From Rhyd Ddu CP (£6.00) - visited Y Aran first, then back to CP & on to Mynydd Mawr. Y Aran is an excellent hill with a really good mountain path from the bwlch. | ger | 28/03/2019 |
| CMC walk | greenways | 23/02/2019 |
| Repeat visit (also March 2008) with M & X. Dropped off at Bethania by Mrs Anchovy, up the Watkins Path to Plas Cwm-llan, left up to mine workings and then up on to ridge and then summit. Basked in surprisingly warm sunshine on the top. Then on to Craig Wen before descending to a pub in Beddgelert where we met up again with Mrs A. Just over 10 km. | Herbert Anchovy | 30/10/2018 |
| From car park at Rhyd Ddu station £2-50 up Snowdon path. Went over first stile at the quarry & headed up the hill. Would have been better to have continued & gone up the path beside a dry stone wall. | rogreeves | 19/10/2018 |
| From Watkins Path | Dan Baddeley | 03/10/2018 |