The Mountain Walker's Guide to Wales

by: Colin Adams
This comprehensive guide describes 100 routes of varying lengths and difficulty, from gentle strolls to tough excursions and therefore contains something suitable for every category of walker. It includes virtually every mountain summit in Wales, many of which are represented in a guide for the first time. It includes practical advice about safety and equipment and provides fascinating geological, historical, and general interest facts. Each of the routes guarantees at least one summit and is designed so that it requires the use of only one OS Explorer map sheet. All the routes start and finish at the same point with safe car parking in mind.

The guide has divided the walks into 20 mountain groups starting in the north west corner of the principality and finishing in the south east. They are as follows:
Llyn - isolated hills whose proximity to the sea adds character to the group. An ancient Celtic stronghold.
Eifionydd - an increasingly popular group with walks to suit every taste. Intriguing hills where history and legend blend.
Snowdon - the savage grandeur of this massif is unsurpassed in Britain. The pride of Wales and the land of King Arthur.
Glyder - a textbook example of a landscape created by glaciers.
Carneddau - a bleak mountain fastness embracing the largest area of land in Wales above 1000m.
Clwydian - modest hills best known for their Iron Age fortifications and Offa's Dyke Path.
Moelwyni - an extensive collection of peaks conveniently situated to offer a varied selection of expeditions. The industrial dereliction is now a part of the heritage of Gwynedd.
Rhinog - challenging mountains which provide some of the most rugged and demanding walking in Britain.
Arennig - a quiet loosely knit group of peaks with long approach routes. Lonely peaks rise above abandoned valleys.
Berwyn - a great combination of hills characterised by the most extensive sweep of heather moor in Wales, possessing its own brand of beauty.
Aran - ten contrasting peaks which provide excellent walking and enjoyable panoramas.
Cadair Idris - a magnificent mountain range where the walker is spoilt for choice.
Dyfi Forest - an unfrequented array of hills set above ranks of unpopular conifers. An area of unbroken solitude, vast skies and broad expanses.
Pumlumon - remote high windswept moorland peaks, solemn and mysterious, in the heart of Wales.
Cwmdeuddwr - an awe-inspiring wilderness offering long traverses which require skilful navigation.
Radnor Forest - a pleasant group of hills overlooking dense afforestation and rich pastoral land.
Carmarthen Fan - a wild upland expanse dominated by spectacular escarpments and romantic lakes.
Fforest Fawr - a closely knit collection of hills with easily reached summits. A medieval hunting ground.
Brecon Beacons - an instantly recognisable massif containing the two highest mountains in South Wales.
Black Mountains - a mountain group of considerable stature which provides some of the finest ridge walks in Britain.

ISBN 9781845241339 Pages 305 (2013) 122mm x 182mm