After hiking for several hours in blistering heat we reached the high point of our first encounter with Fan Brycheiniog. It was a great moment but slightly strange. I could only remember this place as being so utterly full of menace. The intense savagery of our two previous trips had been replaced with a picturesque [...]
Crawling into a small depression in the ground I held Arthur tightly by his shoulder and shouted to make myself heard above the roaring wind. "Are you cold?" We had decided to give Fan Brycheiniog a second shot. 'Beast from the East 2' was upon us so our attempt wasn't going to be straightforward. We [...]
"We're heading back", "We can make it Daddy, I honestly believe we can make it", "I know but we need to make if off as well; we only have one rule - safety first, please trust me. We're heading back" As temperatures dropped in the wind, fog, sleet and hail, we turned back. We had [...]
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