Pen yr Ole Wen

Overlooking the Pen Yr Ole Wen from south-southwest. In front of the lake Llyn Idwal. At the foot of the mountain, the A runs 5

Pen yr Ole Wen ( Welsh for " summit of White Light ") is a pyramid- shaped mountain peak in North Wales and is part of the Snowdonia National Park. He was the seventh highest mountain in Wales a height of 978 meters ( 3212ft ) and is thus exactly as high as the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike the. It is expected the Pen yr Ole Wen to the group of Carneddau, a mountain range of the 3000 -foot mountains to the Foel Grach also the, Yr Elen Foel Fras and belong. At the summit, the average annual air temperature is 5 ° C.

The summit is a popular and ambitious destination. The shortest route begins in the south at the hostel, which is located on the pass leading to approximately 300 m below the mountain A 5. In this way a gradient of 100 percent ( 1:2 ) is to deal with. Considerably longer and scenic are either coming from the north summit route, which starts at about 740 m height and on the summit Drum, Foel Fras, Garnedd Uchaf, Foel Grach, Garnedd Llewelyn and Foel Meirch leads or east to Lake Ffynnon Lloer and Ffynnon Llugwy around leading route.