The Carneddau (lit. "the cairns"; Carneddau is a Welsh plural form, and is sometimes anglicised to Carnedds) are a group of mountains in Snowdonia, Wales. They include the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over 2,500 or 3,000 feet (910 m) high) in Wales and England, as well as six or seven of the highest peaks in the country—the Fourteen Peaks. The range also encloses a number of lakes such as Llyn Cowlyd and Llyn Eigiau, and the Aber Falls waterfalls. It is delimited by the Irish Sea to the north, the Conwy valley to the east, and by the A5 road from Betws-y-Coed to Bethesda to the south and west. The area covers nearly 200 square kilometres, about 10% of the area of Snowdonia.
31. Craig Lloer (Pen yr Ole Wen, Carnedd Dafydd, Carnedd Llewellyn). Conditions: Broken cloud, sunshine. Craig Lloer is on the northeast side of Pen Yr Ole Wen in The Carneddau, just north of Llyn Ogwen near the A5 in North Wales, UK. This trip was with the Clywyd Mountaineering Club (http://www.clwydmc.co.uk) and my first to involve a trad route. Alt Second with Steve Eccleson. Weather dry, bright, but comfortable. hazy. I bivvied overnight at Gwern Gof Isaf.
