44. Moel Siabod via Daear Du. Group: Lizzie. Conditions: warm, dry, overcast.
Took my daughter Lizzie that way for a walk/scramble. Conditions were comfortably warm, but a cloud sat over the top of Siabod, keeping the sun off of us. We parked at Bryn Glo on the A5 near the pub and walked up the old miner’s track behind the climbing club barn. Once past the mines and the caldera, we started up Daear Du. I aimed to scramble near the path rather than taking the easiest walk. I checked regularly with Lizzie to see if the route was too hard for her, and only had to haul her once. Mostly used body belays and short rope (10m or so), but toward the end when the ground became flatter, I set up simple sling belays for her to disassemble. Once on the top, walked back down toward PYB then branched right in the woods back to Bryn Glo. Took around 11 hours with Lizzie’s slow legs!
http://doctoruseful.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/moel-siabod-by-lizzie-mountaineer-aged-7.html
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Moelwynion
The Moelwynion (a Welsh plural, sometimes anglicised to Moelwyns) are a group of mountains in central Snowdonia. They extend from the north-east of Porthmadog to Moel Siabod, the highest of the group. The name derives from the names of the two largest mountains in the group, Moelwyn Mawr (great white hill) and Moelwyn Bach (little white hill).
