{"id":2104,"date":"2021-06-01T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2022-03-12T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:39:45","slug":"gorllwyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/gorllwyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorllwyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mountain rank by height: 181 out of 188<br>Height: 2,011ft | 613m<br>Region: Central Wales<br>Grid ref:  SN 91795 59052 <\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"min-width: 260px; max-width: 100%\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outdooractive.com\/en\/embed\/211690669\/js?mw=false\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gorllwyn is a 613m high Mountain in Central Wales above the Elan Valley. It is fairly close to Drygarn Fawr, although the walk between the two is definitely not an easy one. I walked this via the route above, with Gorllwyn being the third summit of the day &#8211; a day that was proving to be a real slog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51226078880\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226078880_2655eb846d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn is the distant lump, if you zoom in you can see the two cairns. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The path from Drygarn Fawr starts off well, but at the point you cross the route up the path becomes a lot less distinctive and is easy to lose and often you&#8217;re just vaguely trying to follow anything that looks like a path, avoiding as best you can the frequent boggy areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51225221058\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51225221058_884a91f39e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Not very dramatic, not very prominent, not fun to walk. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually you can see the large cairn on top (not at the summit trig point) and then the summit trig point, which is also a kind of cairn \/ shelter. You just head as best you can in the direction of the left cairn which is home to the trig point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51226079380\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226079380_07c9ca2bd5_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Nice trig point though, can&#8217;t fault it for that. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the will power to walk to the slightly lower cairn, after running out of water at around 7 miles in by this point all I had left was one cake of Coke Zero so I didn&#8217;t want to do any additional miles, especially without paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51226092395\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226092395_465e630185_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The views were good, the trig point and cairn offered some decent photos, but this part of Wales just seems very bleak and empty. I was totally alone and the lack of paths just made everything worse. It is hard to explain really, looking at the photos it seems like a pleasant walk and nice landscape, but being there it was just something different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51225022076\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51225022076_d1089ba6d6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>You can see the other cairn in the distance in this photo. | Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it was the nature of the unrelenting boggy and uneven ground, that every mile felt like 5 and the distances took what felt like an eternity to cover. Not a mountain I can ever see myself returning to, but I am glad I did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51224312917\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51224312917_02f289909d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain rank by height: 181 out of 188Height: 2,011ft | 613mRegion: Central WalesGrid ref: SN 91795 59052 Gorllwyn is a 613m high Mountain in Central Wales above the Elan Valley. It is fairly close to Drygarn Fawr, although the walk between the two is definitely not an easy one. I walked this via the route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[280,286,276,264,267,259,18],"tags":[104,112,185,197,206,238],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pond","category-powys","category-very-challenging","category-walks-by-county","category-walk-rating","category-welsh-mountains","tag-gorllwyn","tag-hiking","tag-powys","tag-sony-a7rii","tag-tamron-adaptall-sp-24-48mm","tag-welsh-mountains"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}