A slight deviation this month as August was high on adventure and fun but quite low on actual mountains. After a quick weekend break at the Edinburgh Festival (see my top tips here) the big event of August was a visit to Green Man Festival in Crickhowell in South Wales. With mountain of the month…
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Mountain of the Month: June 2017; Fan Brycheiniog (The Black Mountain), Brecon Beacons, Wales
I love our national parks dearly but always try to find their hidden corners; either their geographically remote edges or visiting their star attractions out of season or out of hours. The Black Mountain certainly falls into the geographically remoter end of the Brecon Beacons; even on a summer Saturday we only passed a few…
Forts, Castles and Conquests in Snowdonia
Sometimes I am wrong; that’s right you heard it here first. Such is my obsession with mountains that I am sometimes blinkered to what is around them; I can’t understand why people would chose to visit a tourist attraction rather than climb a mountain. However, I was wrong to be so blinkered. This weekend just…
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