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August bank holiday often seems to signal the end of summer but with a forecast of warm weather after a miserable few weeks of rain we decided to hot-foot it down the M4 to the Wye Valley in the campervan. After a busy drive down the M4 we crossed the Read More …
Black Mountain Oct16 from Nigel Gray on Vimeo. An ‘s‘ and around 40 miles separate the Black Mountains and the Black Mountain, which mark the eastern and western extremes of the Brecon Beacon national park. A Thursday business trip to Cardiff was an ideal opportunity to visit the western Brecon Read More …
No wonder I saw no other soul in 24 hours – the foothills of Arenig Fawr are a pathless, tussocky bogfest that sap the life and energy from your limbs with every squelchy stomp! The weather forecast had been less than encouraging but a bright blue sky in London teased Read More …
I took a small SJCAM SJ4000 waterproof video camera on my recent Aran Ridge wild camp trip. It only arrived in the morning so no chance to read the manual or tweak settings, or fully charge the battery so it didn’t last for the whole trip and thus my edit Read More …
As ever, I didn’t manage to get away from London as early as expected so it was 6pm when I arrived in Bala to grab some provisions, parking at the lake to sort out my gear and load my rucksack. I had some new stuff to try out. I’d be Read More …
I should have been summiting Mount Triglav in Slovenia. Flights were booked, the route planned and huts contacted some months back but misfortune afflicted my travel companions – one was advised by his doctor not to go lest disrupt his ankle rehabilitation and the other fell foul of a hernia Read More …
A recent trip to the Lakes had reminded me of how much of it I still have to visit so it seemed an appropriate destination for a bank holiday weekend trip. Most of the UK population seemed to have the same thought and faced with gridlock on the M6 I Read More …
A check-up at the Royal Marsden is always a time for reflection/contemplation and with a hint of spring in the air I made a last minute decision to head up to Snowdonia. Guessing the majority of the snow would have melted from two weeks earlier I hastily grabbed some Read More …
It was a hastily arranged, largely un-planned attempt to give a couple of friend’s boys their first taste of wild-camping. The fickle UK weather meant the destination changed hourly until I decided we were going to Wales come hell or high-water – almost both almost came true! A dark, damp night Read More …
With my new Laser Comp having just arrived I just had to fit in a quick trip, so I headed up to Wales on Friday afternoon. I hadn’t planned and therefore packed in a hurry, which I would regret later!. I had thought about heading into the back of Carneddau Read More …