Arenig Fawr South Ridge Top

About Arenig Fawr South Ridge Top

Arenig Fawr South Ridge Top is a subsidiary top on the broad south ridge of Arenig Fawr, in southern Eryri. The surrounding ground is a scatter of rocky knolls and small tarns, and the summit is simply the highest outcrop among them, marked by a few stones.

The bulk of Arenig Fawr itself blocks much of the view. A path runs down the west flank of the ridge in the direction of Moel Llyfnant.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Arenig Fawr South Ridge Top (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 52.908, -3.745. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

11-Jul-23

Drop measured from

SH 8272 3612 · 693.5 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Arenig Fawr South Ridge Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Arenig Fawr (854 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 694 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

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