Book trains now, cheap Advance tickets are available now for both legs (13/02/17)!
For Abergavenny: to get the cheapest possible Advance tickets, you have to book split tickets London - Newport and Newport - Abergavenny, due to different operators on those lines.
More detailed postings for the individual walks will follow…
For Abergavenny: to get the cheapest possible Advance tickets, you have to book split tickets London - Newport and Newport - Abergavenny, due to different operators on those lines.
More detailed postings for the individual walks will follow…
Arrive in Brecon anytime on Friday 28 April, either by car, or
by train and bus:
If you arrive early in the day, check
out the Tourist Information, they
have brochures for whiling away the afternoon (a town map and guide, a town walk,
a couple of woodland walks etc.), as well as some useful stuff for the days
ahead, should you want to opt out of below group walks (a 'Mountain Walks by Bus'
brochure, Maps, Commercial Walking Guide Books etc.). Stay either in
Brecon
(lots of B&B’s, some hotels), or in
the Llwyn-y-Celyn Youth Hostel (some distance away, but on Bus Line T4 and also
an alt. start for the walk on Day 2 and 4) or anywhere else in the area if you
have a car.
South
Britain’s best ridge walk, an exhilarating expedition into ‘the last wilderness’
in the Brecon Beacons, featuring some of the most spectacular upland scenery in
Britain.
09.15
Bus
T6 from Brecon Interchange to
Glyntawe (Tawe Bridge), arrives 09.46.
21.9 km (13.7 mi), 1000m ascent, 10/10, or 15.6 km (9.7 mi), 720m ascent, 8/10,
or even shorter/easier versions,
just out-and-back to one of the first tops on the ridge or 20.6 km (12.8 mi), 760m ascent, 9/10 (Alternative Ending via Shake
Holes Route). Return buses: 15.25/16.25/17.25/19.25. There are two pubs in Glyntawe to while away the time...
Ridge
walk linking four distinguished table-top peaks (Pen y Fan, Corn
Du, Cribyn and Fan y Big), best started from a remote car park, then it’s: 15.3
km (9.5 mi), 740m ascent, 8/10; else with a choice of 8 (!) different
approach routes to the ridge, adding some distance and ascent to the core
horseshoe walk, some busable (10.51 bus T4 to Storey Arms, arrives 11.07), one
starting from the Youth Hostel mentioned above, others starting straight from
Brecon; we’ll decide the evening before, based on weather forecast and appetite
for distance and height, which route people prefer, and may well split up right
at the start (the write-up is in the usual detailed SWC-style, so that no one
should fear getting lost if they walk a different route than the main group).
There is also the option of doing the
horseshoe plus an extension loop
along the Waun Rydd upland peat bog, of course, the possibilities are endless…
An idyllic Country Park on the River Tawe,
a clifftop stretch above the river, a spectacular wooded ravine up to South Wales’ highest waterfall, and
back via lanes, fields and bridleways, with a very good lunch pub and a proper
tea stop. 08.50 or 10.55 Bus T6 from
Brecon Interchange to Craig y Nos (alternative start: Glyntawe, same bus), arrives 09.27/11.37 respectively. Last return bus: 16.03! 13.4 km (8.3
mi), 270m ascent, 3/10.
Want
more distance and height? Join me in exploring a variation of the morning route
by climbing up to the Cribarth plateau first to pick up the route in Ynyswen.
Want
still more distance and height? Walk
SWC 279 again, but with the other
ending (08.50 bus, but last return bus is 16.09, so no dawdling…)
· Tue 02/05 As you
wish, any walk from any walking book or just anything else we fancy, but I
would suggest to try SWC 278 again, but chose one of
the 8 ascent routes we haven’t walked on the Sunday, spend some time on the
ridge w/out doing the full horseshoe and walk down a different descent route. The weekday
bus schedule also brings into play a Talybont-on-Usk start of finish (line
43/X43 Brecon – Abergavenny, as above).
· Wed 03/05 As you
wish, Sugarloaf maybe?
p.s.
if the suggestions for the Saturday and the Sunday sound too tough for you,
why not try the ‘Tourist Versions’ of the two walks, as featured on
our website: SWC 86 and SWC 85 ?
p.p.s.
for a mountain weather forecast for the
area we’ll walk in, either check our very own website on the respective walk's page,
for example here, under the tab 'Mountain', or
try the ever reliable Mountain Weather Information Service (funded by the
Scottish Government) and their forecast for the Brecon Beacons here. There
are also live webcams at the Brecon
Beacons National Park’s Visitor Centre, available here.
p.p.p.s.
your options for getting out of Brecon by bus on the Sunday or the Bank Holiday are fairly limited: either
take the T6 to Neath or Swansea (15.37 and 17.37 straight from the waterfall
walk ending in Craig y Nos, or at 15.00/17.00 from Brecon after going back
there first to fetch your luggage), or
the 16.51 T4 from Brecon to Merthyr Tydfil.
14 comments:
accomodation booked, 4 nights from Friday
I booked a room in the YHA - it seems to have bunk beds & I'm open to sharing with anyone who wants a cheap place to stay
I will probably drive there and could offer a lift to two or three people with fairly compatible music tastes or good earplugs.
Leave me a comment if you're interested in either / or offer
Four nights booked - the room costs appear to be going up so suggest any others that are going book soon...
I've just booked x4 nights accommodation at the Markets Tavern.
Hi JuneT, I'm interested in sharing, you didn't say if you are a male or a female?
And did you book for two?
I also have to be back to London on Tuesday by 12pm on Tuesday.
Please email me: redchylly@hotmail.com
Regards
Barbara
I have sent an email to all walkers known to me as having booked accomodation to establish an email list (just now primarily for car sharing, but later also other organisational stuff). If anyone else is intending to go, but has not received a mail from me, can they please contact me? Don't have my email or mobile number? Send a mail to 'saturdaywalkersatwalkingclub.org.uk', replacing 'at' with '@'... Ta
Hi everyone,
I've cancelled the room in the YHA as my plans have changed. Sorry about this
June
Evening all
Following a discussion on yesterday's walk, I'm up for this. I've provisionally booked into a B&B but if anyone has a spare space in a cottage or something, that would be great. I'm house-trained and know the Beacons quite well
Sandy
at least 5 people are staying until Wednesday 3rd of May afternoon or evening, to get in 5 days of walking
acc. to the info available to me, we'll have enough cars out there to get everyone to and from the walks w/o using buses, which is great for our flexibility, especially on the Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday
Hi Thomas - I would like to come along. Can you contact me my email to discuss. Thanks
Ranjna
try Beacons guest house
Ranjna: Please send a mail to 'saturdaywalkersatwalkingclub.org.uk', replacing 'at' with '@', so that we do have your email address. Ta
Further to the individual walk posts for the first three days:
8 walkers stayed on for Tuesday and Wednesday, all of whom joined up on Tuesday to walk a Forest Fawr Traverse (Craig y Nos to Llwyn-y-celyn Youth Hostel or to Storey Arms Outdoor Centre). As tough as the Black Mountain walk and as rewarding, if in a different way: lots of changing scenery, if not as dramatic as the Black Mountain, but still with three big ascents, some quarries, tramways, far views, a standing stone, and some birthday cava on the top of Fan Gyhirych. It will be a very good SWC walk.
6 then opted for an easier walk on Wednesday, seeing that 3 still had to drive back to London the same day, with the other 2 doing a short woodland walk through the Priory Groves along the Honddu River. The 6 did a Brecon Circular via Pen y Crug Iron Age hillfort (from where ALL the previously walked hills of the weekend were visible) and Y Gaer, an old Roman Camp by the banks of the Usk River. This would make a very good, short opening walk on arrival day, if ever there were another Brecon trip.
Thanks to everyone for attending, and I hope all got home ok.
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