Mynydd Maes-glas [Mynydd Clywedog]

About Mynydd Maes-glas [Mynydd Clywedog]

Tucked away in the wild heart of Mid Wales, Mynydd Maes-glas is less a jagged peak and more a vast, undulating exercise in navigating deep heather. It’s the sort of place where the silence is only broken by the whir of turbines and your own increasingly desperate sighs.

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• •The hill sits in the sprawling Cambrian Mountains, a region nicknamed the 'Green Desert of Wales' due to its distinct lack of roads and permanent human inhabitants.
• •To the south lies Llyn Clywedog, home to the tallest concrete dam in the UK; the reservoir was created in the 1960s to regulate the flow of the River Severn.
• •It is officially classified as a Dewey, a category for hills in England and Wales between 500 and 610 meters, proving that even modest heights can be prestigious.
• •While 'Maes-glas' translates to 'Green Field,' this is widely considered a creative interpretation of what is actually a rugged landscape of brown tussocks and dark peat.
• •Hiking here requires mastering the 'Cambrian Caper,' a high-stakes game of hopscotch where the prize for a missed landing is a boot full of cold, black bog water.