Pant Mawr Moors
Saturday 14th April 2007
On an exceedingly warm April morning 14 walkers left the quarry at Penwyllt to walk what we thought was going to be an 11 mile walk around the Ogaf-Ffynon-Ddu Pant Mawr Nature Reserve. The Western Beacons Mountain Rescue vehicles were parked in the car park when we arrived, we assumed they were out on an exercise. The nature reserve has beneath it the deepest cave system in Britain. There are many shake holes covering the moors here.
We steadily gained height as we left the car park heading up towards the limestone crags breaking through the moorland around us. We were following a public footpath, which is now part of the Beacons Way. The skylarks were singing high up above us. We stopped for a morning break at the boundary wall of the reserve. Carrying on across classic moorland, which was very dry indeed, towards where the footpath met the remains of the Sarn Helen roman road. Just before the this is the remains of an old rabbit farm. The house is now just a couple of walls in a very poor state.
Followed the Sarn Helen track for a couple hours till the road at Cefnwaunhynog. The ground here was boggy in places and had to detour around some fords which 4x4 had made impassable for walkers. We stopped by a stream for lunch, enjoying the hot sun, and all hoping we had brought enough water with us. Slapped on some more sun tan lotion and a sun hat. We were now making our way to the woods at Bryn Bugeiliaid and the wild boar that are bred there. Hoping for some shelter from the sun in the woods, no luck it was along wide forest tracks. We saw the boar with plenty of young in there. Before we exited the wood and made for Saith Maen back in the nature reserve. The ground was harder to walk now as it was a mixture of dry bog and rocky ground hidden amongst the heather. We made our way along to the escarpment of Carreg Lwyd before picking a way down to the quarry where the cars were parked. Most of us had finished all of our water by the time we had got back to the cars 12.8 miles later according to the gps that one of the group had.
On an exceedingly warm April morning 14 walkers left the quarry at Penwyllt to walk what we thought was going to be an 11 mile walk around the Ogaf-Ffynon-Ddu Pant Mawr Nature Reserve. The Western Beacons Mountain Rescue vehicles were parked in the car park when we arrived, we assumed they were out on an exercise. The nature reserve has beneath it the deepest cave system in Britain. There are many shake holes covering the moors here.
We steadily gained height as we left the car park heading up towards the limestone crags breaking through the moorland around us. We were following a public footpath, which is now part of the Beacons Way. The skylarks were singing high up above us. We stopped for a morning break at the boundary wall of the reserve. Carrying on across classic moorland, which was very dry indeed, towards where the footpath met the remains of the Sarn Helen roman road. Just before the this is the remains of an old rabbit farm. The house is now just a couple of walls in a very poor state.Followed the Sarn Helen track for a couple hours till the road at Cefnwaunhynog. The ground here was boggy in places and had to detour around some fords which 4x4 had made impassable for walkers. We stopped by a stream for lunch, enjoying the hot sun, and all hoping we had brought enough water with us. Slapped on some more sun tan lotion and a sun hat. We were now making our way to the woods at Bryn Bugeiliaid and the wild boar that are bred there. Hoping for some shelter from the sun in the woods, no luck it was along wide forest tracks. We saw the boar with plenty of young in there. Before we exited the wood and made for Saith Maen back in the nature reserve. The ground was harder to walk now as it was a mixture of dry bog and rocky ground hidden amongst the heather. We made our way along to the escarpment of Carreg Lwyd before picking a way down to the quarry where the cars were parked. Most of us had finished all of our water by the time we had got back to the cars 12.8 miles later according to the gps that one of the group had.
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