OK, so it is not a mountain - it felt like it to my 9 and 11 year old boys. We spent whitsun week based in Cricieth and I got them out on a beautiful day. I had seen this climb mentioned in Country Walking recently (and also in Trail I think).
Not having done a great deal of hill walking myself I thought this would be a good introduction, so map in hand we set off from the car park.
Well we lost the main path shown on the map quite quickly as it was not that clear on the ground :-( Oh well, we knew where the top was, so onwards and upwards. (I had to cope with a 20 minute pause while my youngest boy decided to have a paddy and refuse to walk any further, he eventuall continued when he saw Mum and big brother almost at the top). We eventually crossed another path and took that up the second half of the hill. The climb takes you through gorse and a narrow path with plenty of loose stones, and a couple of times hands were also needed.
Eventually we got to the top, and it was a spectacular sight - Rhinogs, Snowdonia, Harlech, Anglesey, even Ireland was visible on the horizon.
To get back to the car we decended the same way we came up.
It was a few days later when reading a book of walks for the Llyn Peninsula that I found out we missed probably the most interesting feature of this climb especially for the kids. An ajoining peak is topped with an iron age/celtic fort and village with many hut circles and boundaries still visible. (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=yr+eifl&sll=53.981935,-4.042969&sspn=19.428218,39.550781&ie=UTF8&ll=52.974553,-4.423907&spn=0.004839,0.009656&t=h&z=17) Why the magazine notes did not mention this I don't know :-(
But hey, that gives us an excuse to go back next summer holiday :-)
(Written by: massedgadget)