The Brecon Beacons: our Welsh Apennines

February 21, 2018 Trip reports brecon beacons, britain, cribyn, edita, fan y big, hewitts, hill walking, italy, marilyns, nuttalls, peak bagging, pen y fan, wales, waun rydd 1 Comment

It’s been four months since we moved back to London, and we’d not been out into the UK hills. It takes effort to get out of London for a weekend of hill walking, but the effort is always worth it, and the Brecon Beacons are not so far away.

The Mynydd Du microadventure

May 8, 2013 Trip reports alastair humphreys, backpacking, black mountains, brecon beacons, britain, camping, grant rawlinson, hill walking, microadventures, mynydd du, wales, wild camping 13 Comments

Perhaps I’ve only just noticed, but all of a sudden people have started using the term microadventure for things that used to be called walks. I used to laugh, but after my trip to the Mynydd Du hills last weekend, I’m going to stick my neck out and say that I have now become a microadventurer.

A weekend escape to the Brecon Beacons

April 12, 2011 Trip reports brecon beacons, britain, camping, cribyn, facebook, fan y big, hill walking, pen y fan 4 Comments

Joking aside, I think the view up Fan y Big must be about the best in the Brecon Beacons, looking back across the cwm to Cribyn, with Pen y Fan, the highest mountain in South Wales, behind it. It was