Tor Y Foel The Tough Way!

The final training day has arrived next time we will be pulling on our walking boots is when we are heading to the airport to fly to Morocco, yes we travel in our boots just in case of lost luggage! After that the next time we will be pulling on our hiking boots will be on the High Atlas Mountains.

Today we took it steady and did a short walk up Tor y Foel, much like we did back in March, but this time we did it in reverse as it is a bit harder this way.

The hike was 15.9km with an ascent of 814m which took us 3hrs 33mins.

Stats from GPS

Llangynidr locks

Narrow boats

Tor Y Foel ahead

One of the many false summits

Yeah at the top!

Fan Fawr & Fan Frynych

For our penultimate training day we headed up Fan Fawr and Fan Frynych, which are found on the other side of the A470 from Fan Y Big.

The hike was 12km long with an ascent of 613m which took us 3hrs 33mins.

Stats from GPS

Pen Y fan and Corn Du

Craig Cerrig Gleisiad

Fan Fawr in the distance

C-130 fly past

Fan Fawr with Corn Du

Maria

Dorian

Looking back - it was a bit steep!

Western Beacons

Today we headed to the Western Beacons and the Carmarthen Fans. It was a shortish walk today up to the highest peak in the area Fan Brycheiniog then down to Llyn y Fan Fawr before heading back to the car.

Stats from GPS

Fan Hir

Heading up Fan Hir

The path to Fan Brycheiniog

At the top!

At the top!

Looking down at Llyn Y Fan Fawr

Nice shelter!

Llyn Y Fan Fawr

Stream quandary!

It was trickier than expected!

Classic Brecon Horseshoe

Today we did the classic Brecon Horseshoe but with a twist namely Fan Y Big! We started at Upper Neadd Reservoir, headed up to Twyn Mwyalchod before heading to Corn Du, Pen Y Fan and Cribyn. After descending from Cribyn to Bwlch Ar Y Fan the Horseshoe route normally heads back to the car park via the bridleway, but we decided that we had another peak in us so we headed up Fan Y Big before finding an alternative route down.

In total we hiked 14.2km with a total ascent of 811m which took us 4hrs 9mins.

Stats courtesy of GPS

Corn Du and Pen Y Fan in the distance

Upper Neuadd Reservoir

Brecon Beacons with low cloud

Pen Y Fan and Corn Du

Corn Du

Pen Y Fan

Looking back

Cribyn

Fan Y Big

Wet weather gear was not packed away for long!

Looking back on the way down