Pen yr Ole Wen from Tryfan. Ogwen Valley, North Wales.
Photograph © Mike Kelly

Pen yr Ole Wen is a mountain in Snowdonia in Wales. It is the most southerly of the Carneddau range.

The mountain lies to the north of Idwal Cottage youth hostel on the A5 road, from where it has a pyramidical appearance. It may climbed from the hostel by a path that leads directly up the south west "corner", climbing 675 m in about 1.5 km (i.e. an average gradient of nearly 1 in 2). A slightly easier ascent involves starting from Tal-y-Llyn Ogwen, about a mile south-east from the hostel, following the stream until nearing the outflow from the mountain lake Ffynnon Lloer and then branching left to take the path up the ridge.

Pen yr Ole Wen is often climbed as part of a longer route on the Carneddau range.

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