Carneddau

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The Carneddau from near Pentir. Yr Elen centre with Carnedd Llywelyn behind, Carnedd Dafydd right.

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. It includes the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over 2,500 or 3,000 feet high) in Wales, 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 peaks in the central Carnedd ridge are:

• Pen yr Ole Wen (978 m)
• Carnedd Dafydd (1044 m)
• Carnedd Llewelyn (1064 m)
• Yr Elen (962 m)
• Foel Grach (976 m)
• Garnedd Uchaf (926 m)
• Foel-fras (942 m)

[edit] List of summits

Pen yr Ole Wen rising above Ogwen Cottage

Yr Elen, with Carnedd Llewelyn behind

Aber Falls, at the foot of the Carneddau

[edit] External links

• Walks in the Carneddau