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Y Garn & Foel-goch via Devil’s Kitchen Eryri/Snowdonia WALES

Francesca Donovan visits the Devil’s Kitchen – and Eryri’s ponies

IT’S QUITE HARD to find quiet corners of Eryri, especially above Ogwen Valley, which boasts such mighty mini-mountains as Tryfan, the Carneddau and the two popular Glyders (Fawr and Fach). But if you stick to the west, you may just find some peace and quiet – as long as you don’t mind sharing it with the wild ponies who roam these high places.

Y Garn may only be the tenth-highest peak in Wales, but

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