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| Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli, fits in the mouth nicely, doesn't it, I just called it the "Other Plum". So..... heading east down off Pen Pumlumon Fawr, highest peak in the Cambrian mountains, one firstly comes to a large walkers cairn that sits on level ground on a saddle between two peaks. Leaving the cairn for the unnamed peak that sits just north of Pen Lluest y Carn, I carry on over it and come into view of the mountain I've yet to climb. The path takes you up and behind the big hill and will go right on by unless you leave the path and purposely seek out the top, just keep looking left for the top of a cairn, it was about fifty yards from the path. The first cairn I get to is the southern of the three cairns. It has a hollowed out interior, and is comparable in height (about 6ft)to the central cairn it's nearest nieghbour. But the central cairn is bigger in square feet I think. A shelter has erupted out of its eastern lower flank, making the whole thing look like a stone octopus tentacles draped over the hill top. Darker clouds are growing in the sky, I eye them with disdain, I've definitely not dressed for rain, getting a move on. The third cairn is again the smallest of the three, two mountain tops next door to each other, both with three cairns, both with the northern most cairn the smallest, can't be a coincidence, surely? Mountain top done I start to look for the way down to Carreg Wen the white stone of infinite clarity. I see the way, and go that way. |
Posted by postman2nd August 2020ce Edited 2nd August 2020ce
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