The tracks followed on the proposed trail were walked daily by men from the Conwy valley who worked in the Penmaenmawr quarries. Many of them kept upland smallholdings as well as doing a full days work at the quarry face. From Rowen the distance is four miles over open , treeless moor land ,over 1500 ft. above sea level ,with only mountain walls offering protection for part of the journey from rain and gale force winds.

This away of life died out by the 1950 and it is unconceivable that it will return again. Many of the farms or ‘tyddynod’ are in ruins or have been converted into holiday cottages while mechanisation at the Quarry has reduced the workforce considerably and there is no need for the labouring tasks once carried out by the men from the Conwy Valley. The route followed is a tribute to those hardy men who laboured so much for poor returns as smallholders and for low wages as quarrymen.

One such man who made this journey for many years was Edwards who lived at Pen y ffridd high above the village of Rowen.

One of his sons Huw Thomas Edwards on leaving school at the age of fourteen in 1906 joined his father on the daily trek to the Quarry. This young lad was to become area secretary of the TGWU, first chairman of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in 1949, chaired the Welsh Tourist Board, sat on the National Council of the BBC, Gorsedd y Beirdd and the Council of the National Eisteddfod and President of the Welsh Language Society. He was writer of prose and poetry and during the 1950s he owned the periodical ‘Y Fanner’.

But before all this he was a farm labourer, soldier, a coal miner and in 1932 Chairman of Penmaenmawr Urban District Council whilst unemployed as a quarryman.

Thus the trail is also dedicated to and named after this talented man of humble origins to whom there is, regrettably, no memorial in the town.

The Trail marked with suitable markers would begin or end at the village centres of Rowen and Penmaenmawr; follow public footpaths with a quality map/guide to point out places of historical, natural and literary interest.

A memorial already stands at Rowen which makes a good focus point; a suitable place to display a plaque or information panel would have to be found at the Penmaenmawr end eg Library Car Park.