in view of Cadair Idris

Having walked the Mawddach trail to the edge of Dolgallau, I chose to walk back alongside the base of Cadir Idris. This was a faily easy walk with gradual ascent with views towards the mountain and also back across the Mawddach valley. Having learnt my lesson on a snowy Coniston old man in the lake district, I decided a climb up this mountain can wait for another day.

Cadair Idris or Cader Idris is a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales, which lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park

The natural bowl-shaped depression was formed by a cirque glacier during the last ice age when snow and ice accumulated in the corries due to avalanches on higher slopes. In these depressions, snow persisted through summer months, and becomes glacial ice. The cirque was up to a square kilometre in size surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs. The highest cliff was the headwall. The fourth side was the "lip" from which the glacier flowed away from the cirque. Over thousands of years ice flowed out through the bowl's opening carving the chair of Caldair Idris.