Wanderings in Wales

Just about recovered from our trip to Wales now, aside from legs that are still a bit achy and sore feet. Mike, Ian and I had a very successful 3 day hike, starting late Friday afternoon and finishing Sunday lunchtime, carrying all our kit and food and wild camping in the Brecon Beacons.

We made it up the peaks of Cribbyn and Pen y fan in a howling gale and with low cloud closing in which was quite exciting, the only casualty being Mike's sleeping mat which somehow became detached and blew away. Some fantastic scenery with reservoirs, moorland, and forest, got some pictures which I'll upload shortly. Also saw quite a few buzzards including 2 coming into roost near our campsite on Saturday evening which was nice. I woke up in the morning to the sound of green woodpeckers along with the rest of the dawn chorus.

We managed to cook up some pretty respectable meals including beef stew, pasta with spicy chorizo (which was a bit too hot if we're honest), porridge and bacon sandwiches. Lots of energy was needed to keep on going with the heavy packs up some pretty steep slopes.

Navigation wise all went pretty according to plan, utilising our ordnance survey map and some trusty compass work we pretty much always got where we were aiming to go, which was not altogether expected really. Think we probably covered about 25 miles in total, although it's hard to tell with all the up and down bits.

Already looking to plan our next trip which might be to Dartmoor, or bushcraft in the South East somewhere, or even canooing on the Norfolk Broads.