Adrian's Photoblog

Bannau Sir Gaer from Fan Foel
Originally uploaded by Adeeh2

I've been itching to get my new backpacking tent into action and with the recent addition of a new sleeping bag, this has spilled out into a trip. I'd never given 'the Black Mountain' a thought until I had a good look at the 25k sheet a couple of months ago, and this week Peter and I had a splendid 24 hour tour of the area.

Day 1 took us over the impressive edges of the moor, with the norht and east facing scarps up to 400m high. We then camped on the extensive tilted moorland to the south, which had a very remote feeling.

It rained all night and then stopped as soon as I opened the tent door.. and the second morning gave a bonus of a lovely walk through the intricate limestone area and back to Glyntawe, seemingly a different world from the sandstone of the scarps.

The full set is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeeh2/sets/72157616940818708/

# posted by Adrian @ 6:36 PM