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After a week visiting the various sights around Snowdonia National Park and North Wales, Robin and I drove south to the Brecon Beacons area. I had visited this area over 25 years ago and had good memories of the area, including great hiking opportunities. We stayed at the Peterstone Court Hotel<\/a> just outside Brecon (clearly our choice in lodging continues to get more and more comfortable).<\/p>\n

After a couple of days poking about in and around Brecon, I planned another hike, this one being the most strenuous of all of the hikes we did in Wales. A trip up the highest peak in the park, Pen y Fan<\/a>, was beyond Robin’s interest, so I found one that started at Talybont Reservoir and climbed to one of lower peaks, Craig y Fan. The hike was certainly not a complicated one: walk along the reservoir for a ways, turn up hill, climb to the peak of Allt Lwyd, walk the ridge between Allt Lwyd and Craig y Fan, walk across to the cairn Carn Pica and then descend via Twyn Du. However to do that, you need to hike about 11 km and climb about 600 m in elevation.<\/p>\n

Once again we lucked out on the weather and had a mix of sun and cloud all day. Just after 10 minutes of hiking from our car in the parking area, we were surprised to find our way blocked by about a thousand sheep who were being herded down the reservoir road to farms lower down. It took about 30 minutes for the whole group to move past and Robin and I were fascinated by the behavior of the sheep and actions of the shepherds to keep them moving.<\/p>\n

After we turned off the road onto the trail and started to gain elevation, we had great views back east to Tor-y-Foel<\/a>, a hill I climbed with my cousin on our trip in the last 1980’s. The ridge climb between Allt Lwyd and Craig y Fan was the most spectacular part of the walk, with the ground failing away several hundred meters on both sides. Upon reaching the top of Craig y Fan, it was a bit of a slog over to the massive cairn marking the point of descent, Carn Pica. We stopped for a short snack and admired the tremendous view overlooking Talybont Reservoir and the Black Mountains<\/a> further east. The trip down was also rather pleasant as the trail stayed on the top of the Twyn Du ridge most of the way back.<\/p>\n

All in all, a great Brecon Beacons walk.<\/p>\n

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Hike: Craig y Fan, Brecon Beacons
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After a week visiting the various sights around Snowdonia National Park and North Wales, Robin…<\/p>\n

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