GS missed out on this one again due to the distance and difficulty level of route
KT and I set out from the Storey Arms Centre and headed north down the Taff Trail for about 1.5miles and turned due west to cross the fields onto the A470 and across it; and continued north-west to TwynDylluan-ddu and descended down its north-western face to join a path at 400m heading south-west around Graig Cerrig Gleisaid national nature reserve; off the path we turned due east at Pont Blaen-cwm-du and climbed the waterfall until we joined the the Beacons Way at approximately SN096220 and followed it back to the Storey Arms Centre in a south-easterly direction.
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| view from Twyn Dylluan-ddu looking south-east to Y Gryn and beyond |
This was another excursion where we aimed to test our navigation skills un-aided by a map........bad move!! All was going well until we climbed the waterfall and tried to find the Beacons Way. The top of Craig Cerrig-gleisiad was covered in a layer of at least 2ft of snow and the path was respectively invisible. By the time we reached the top the sun has set and there was a thick blanket of mist all around us. With visibility no more than 10m ahead of us and with no reliable point to take a bearing from, we scrambled aimlessly in a northerly direction for about half an hour until we located Trig Point 629.....phew.....and then within about 10 minutes the mist cleared giving us views of clear sky and terrain around us enabling us to locate the line of Beacons Way and head back to the Storey Arms Centre.
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| view from Twyn Dylluan-ddu looking west over Heol Senni and beyond |
All in all a very interesting and exhilarating walk in which we covered around 15miles of mixed terrain. Unfortunately we did not get the chance to take many photographs.
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