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Cwm Eigiau, Snowdonia
We had been thinking about hiking Cwm Eigiau for around a year but it took a while to finally get around to it. We first saw the valley while hiking Pen Llithrig yr Wrach which is one of the mountains which overlooks it.
The pathway is fairly flat and the linear walk is around 7 miles. The ground can be a little boggy in some areas but it is easy to find your way around without getting wet. At the end of the cwm there is series of old quarry buildings that belonged to the Cwm Eigiau Slate Quarry and Cedryn Quarry and they sit underneath Wales' second highest mountain: Carnedd Llewelyn.
The reservoir, Llyn Eigiau, was the scene of tragedy in 1926 when the walls of the dam burst resulting in the deaths of 16 people and the flooding of local homes and roads. You may also be able to find remains of several aircraft which crashed in three separate periods from the 1940s to the 1950s.
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Cwm Eigiau, Snowdonia
We had been thinking about hiking Cwm Eigiau for around a year but it took a while to finally get around to it. We first saw the valley while hiking Pen Llithrig yr Wrach which is one of the mountains which overlooks it.
The pathway is fairly flat and the linear walk is around 7 miles. The ground can be a little boggy in some areas but it is easy to find your way around without getting wet. At the end of the cwm there is series of old quarry buildings that belonged to the Cwm Eigiau Slate Quarry and Cedryn Quarry and they sit underneath Wales' second highest mountain: Carnedd Llewelyn.
The reservoir, Llyn Eigiau, was the scene of tragedy in 1926 when the walls of the dam burst resulting in the deaths of 16 people and the flooding of local homes and roads. You may also be able to find remains of several aircraft which crashed in three separate periods from the 1940s to the 1950s.
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