Walk the forest track
This is a walk around the forest track at the back of Glyn Hut. Depending upon how fast you walk and whether you linger (you probably will) it will take between one and several hours!
Leave our gate, pass the gate to Glyn Farm immediately outside and then take the next turn right up the farm track. Continue on and after a few hundred metres turn left at the big farm shed. The public pathway is directly ahead of you. Please remember to close all farm gates. Also please don’t run as you may startle any livestock that’s around.
Continue through the gate and you’ll climb up a narrow field. At the top you’ll see a stile to the right of a metal gate. Climb over the stile (the gate is always locked) and take the path that goes left. This is the start of the forest track that you’ll be walking on.
Keep going straight on for a mile or so and you’ll pass a lake (Llyn Bychan) on your left. If you’re lucky you’ll get great reflections here and it’s worth walking to the shore at the far end and siting on the large rocks that are in the water. This is such a beautiful and peaceful place where you’ll usually hear nothing other than the sound of birds.
Go past the lake and at the brow of the track you’ll see a path going to the left. Don’t take that for this walk, instead keep right. Just stay on the path and as it descends back on itself, you’ll eventually go past an old quarry on your right. Here you will get a great view of Moel Siabod (the mountain you see from the hut) poking through the forest ahead of you.
Eventually you’ll come to a junction and turn left. You have now completed a circular path and will head back down towards the hut. As you descend, there’s an option to see another lake. Take the first available left up a path and go underneath (or around) a metal barrier. Go up that path and you’ll come to the lake where we get our water from. It’s called Llyn (Lake) Goddionduon. It lies at a height of 794 ft (242 m) above sea level and covers an area of 10 acres (40,000 m2). It is unusual in that it is totally natural, whereas nearly all of the other lakes in the forest have been partially or totally constructed as water sources for the mines which were scattered throughout the Forest.
From here you’ll also get another great view of Siabod in the distance. When you’re ready, retrace your steps and join the path back towards the hut.