One man's incessant wanderings, shared so you can follow in my footsteps if you wish.
One man's incessant wanderings, shared so you can follow in my footsteps if you wish.
Mountain rank by height: 145 out of 188Height: 2,116ft | 645mRegion: Central WalesGrid ref: SN862583 Drygarn Fawr is one of two mountains above the much-visited Elan Valley and its reservoirs. This was a walk that didn’t look that long on…
Cadair Fawr is a 485m hill above Llwyn-onn Reservoir and Garwnant Visitor Centre. It offers great views across the Brecon Beacons and in every direction and is very quiet. I walked it on a sunny Bank Holiday Monday and didn’t see a…
One of most accessible hills in the Brecon Beacons, with a car park offering a near-level pathway to the summit, the Blorenge is a very popular hill between Blaenavon and Abergavenny. The nearby Keepers pond is also very popular, and…
Pen-rhiw-Ifor is a disused tip that is now one of the higher hills in Torfaen, and close to the much more famous Blorenge. Like most disused tips it is a popular place for bikers – motor and peddle – but…
Although I now live in South Wales I was born and raised in Okehampton, a smallish town on the edge of Dartmoor. I’d been up to the moors a fair bit over the years, but only recently, when I got…
Pen March (535m) and Merthyr Common (531m) are boundary high points for Caerphilly, with Merthryr Common also being a boundary high point for Merthyr Tydfil as well. That means completing these two high points ticks off three hills on the…
Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion [Craig Cwareli] is a deleted 730m Nuttall and now exists only as a hill on the Pen y Fan horseshoe walk. It offers great views of Fan y Big, Cribyn, Pen y Fan and Corn Du and…