Wild Camp/Night Hike/Waterfalls/Caves/Pub in the Brecon Beacons

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Wild Camping
Nov 06
2021

8 people attending

4 places left

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£10.00
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Please note another  change of date from 28 November 2020 to 6th November 2021- this time due to a new English lockdown. There will very likely be further changes in the future Feel free to leave or remain on the event, whichever best suits you. 

wild camp (at high level if weather suitable) in challenging terrain; explore a 666 yard tunnel at night near Halloween, follow waterfalls, bathe in natural pools, explore cave entrances and the Llangattock escarpment.

UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED AND COMFORTABLE SUMMITING 800 METRE MOUNTAINS, THIS EVENT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOU. If you are experienced and comfortable summiting 800 metre mountains, this is the ideal opportunity for a first attempt at walking at night and walking in poor weather and carrying a heavy pack and wild camping and exploring cave entrances and bathing in natural pools (you don’t have to do everything). We’re only going up one mountain and we’re only hiking a short distance and if the weather becomes severe, we can shelter in the tunnel.

I will send a pre-event message 3 weeks before the event, asking participants to confirm that they will be attending. Ten days before the event I will remove people who have not confirmed, so that other people have the opportunity to participate, rather than having empty places as well as a waiting list.

This event is in a challenging mountain environment at night, in late Autumn / early Winter. Participants must be prepared to walk and sleep in cold, wet and windy conditions. If the weather is severe, the event will happen, but at lower altitude, in more sheltered areas. You will need suitable equipment and enough food and drink, PLEASE READ THE “WHAT TO BRING” AND “FOOD AND DRINK SECTIONS”.

Let's meet in the White Hart pub at 17:30, to order our meals before 17:45; to meet those not dining, outside the pub at 18:45 (the pubs don't take reservations, we may end up on several small tables).

We will depart in convoy from the White Hart at 18:45 sharp to get to the low car park beyond Talybont reservoir at 19:00 and start walking by 19:15.

We will go up through a very steep meadow to the path of the Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway (known locally as the Breakneck and Murder railway, owing to a tendency to have serious accidents, caused by the steep gradients to what was the highest railway tunnel in Britain). We then follow the railway route to the bent 666 yard long  Torpantau Tunnel.  Another steep ascent to the summit of Craig y Fan Ddu (683) metres. If the weather is good, with no risk of lightning, we’ll sleep high up, otherwise drop to a more sheltered area. We’ll get up no later than 7:00am, then past a series of waterfalls and pools to the car park. We will then breakfast and go by car to explore the cave entrances on the Llangattock escarpment.

 

 

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