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.
A day out with four university students wanting to learn the basics of navigation and have a good day out in the mountains bagging a couple of summits. We covered the basics of map interpretation and navigation. From Oggy Cottage we went up Pen Yr Ole Wen and Carnedd Dafydd, along Cafn Ysgolion Duon then down past Craig Llugwy to Ffynnoon Llugwy Resevoir and eventually Gwern Gof Isaf. Visibility was very poor on top.
