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Tag Archives: brecon beacons
Brecon Beacons: an hour’s trek to a frozen world
Monday and it was sleeting at home when I got up. The Met Office forecast heavy showers of rain, sleet and maybe snow all day with temperatures rising to a maximum of 3oC. I knew it might be snowing on … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Landscape, Mountains, Photography, Wales, Weather, Winter
Tagged brecon beacons, brecon beacons national park, Cadair Idris, Corn Du, footpaths, hiking, mountains, paragliding, Pen y Fan, photography, Snow and ice, Wales, winter
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Brecon Beacons: a frozen ridge-top walk
It has been grey and damp most days since I arrived home. But not all. A modest snowfall followed by a week of continuing low temperatures meant that when the sun was forecast to come out for a day I … Continue reading
An alternative Boxing Day
From the top of Garn Wen on Christmas Day I could see not only a cap of snow on the top of the Sugar Loaf Mountain near Abergavenny but also to the north west a snow covered ridge in the … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Landscape, Mountains, Wales, Winter
Tagged Boxing Day, brecon beacons, Christmas, Corn Du, Fan Fawr, footprints in the snow, snow, Storey Arms, Wales, Winter solstice
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Brecon Beacons: waterfalls and pleasures revisited.
For over two weeks now I’ve been non-stop busy in the garden. The physically most demanding job has been cutting hedges because some of them are 15-20 feet high. That means erecting, dismantling (English is sometimes very strange, why not … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Landscape, Mountains, Wales
Tagged adventure, aqua tramping, brecon beacons, brecon beacons national park, courgettes, fasolakia, french beans, gardening, Glossop, greek dishes, Hayfield, Hepste, litigation, Mellte, Nedd Fechan, Peak District, Pontypool Folly Tower, potatoes, Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwyn, Sgwd Pannwr, Sgwd yr Eira, trig point, waterfall country, waterfalls
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November Daily Blog 24: Footpaths – Grey Britain, Greece, Canadian Rockies.
The weather in the UK has been pretty grim over the last few days with dark grey skies and rain varying between heavy and torrential. For 4 days now there have been 200 or more flood warnings with the South … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Greece, Grey Britain, Mountains, Winter
Tagged Areopoli, Banff, banff canada, brecon beacons, brecon beacons national park, Canada, footpaths, Greece, greek odyssey, Hoodoos Trail, Mani, Rockies, Sgwd yr Eira, Taygetos Mountains
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