🥾⛰️ Pumlumon Fawr (En)

- Overview - 

For our first hike of 2025, we’ll be heading to Pumlumon Fawr, the nearest mountain to Aberystwyth, and the tallest of the Cambrian Mountains. It offers great views of the Nant-y-Moch Reservoir and the rolling hinterland of central Wales.

- Difficulty - 

- Signing Up -

✨✨✨To sign up, head to our club webpage, and under the 'Products' tab you’ll find ‘Hiking - Pumlumon Fawr’. Add that to your basket and checkout.✨✨✨

The sign-up will be available from Wednesday afternoon.

The ticket price is £7 to cover the minibus hire.

If you miss the sign-up, please email us to be put on a waiting list.

- Description - 

We will be departing Aberystwyth in a minibus just after 9AM, and starting the hike from near Nant-y-Moch Reservoir. We’ll follow the road briefly, before joining the desire paths that head up to the summit. After we summit, we’ll find a windbreak and stop for lunch, before following the ridge to bag the subsidiary summits. Finally, we’ll descend next to the lake Llyn Llygad-Rheidol - which supplies Aberystwyth with water - rejoin the road, and head back to the minibus.

Pumlumon is on the easier side for a mountain, due to a low max elevation and the start point being over 300m above sea level. There are no sections that are precarious, and the gradient is not too steep. The biggest obstacles will be potentially muddy conditions underfoot in sections, and possibly wind (the shape and emptiness of the landscape tends to funnel the prevailing wind towards the summit).

The hike will be around 9-10km, depending on parking availability. The total ascent will be around 475m.

- Meetings, Timings, and Transport -

We will be traveling by minibus. We’ll meet at Lidl carpark at 09:00.

We will depart Aberystwyth at 09:10, and we should be back around 15:30 at the latest.

- Equipment - 

- Walking boots*

- Waterproof coat

- Waterproof trousers*

- At least 4 layers of clothing for your torso

- Hat, scarf, and gloves

- A suitable bag to carry everything

- At least 1.5l of water

- Lunch and snacks

- Medication (if needed)

*If you want to check the suitability of your footwear, or borrow equipment (e.g. waterproof trousers), please email us on hikingclub@aber.ac.uk . Please contact us at least 24 hours before the event. 

You can view the equipment we have available to borrow on our equipment list.