Distance: 13km
Duration: 5hrs
Ascent: 695m
After driving to Brecon that morning, I chose an afternoon/evening ascent of Pen Allt-mawr via Pen Twyn Glas. This made for interesting walking with may landscape features displaying the mining history of this part of Brecon. Having climbed up from the parking place through farmland and onto the moorland, we climbed onto the summit ridge as the sun was setting. Buzzards circled above in the golden hour light; this led to high quality summit selfies as well as a challenging descent in the dark. To add to the challenge, what started as a dry evening quickly turned into torrential rain as darkness fell. We descended the steep slope to the south, and opted to avoid Table mountain due to the rain. Luckily, the bracken was long dead, allowing for easier walking on a bearing across the access land to the path junction, and without tics as a bonus. With a final path down through farmland, we returned along the road to the vehicle, wet, with a chill, and in the dark.
Area :
Black Mountains
The Black Mountains (Welsh: Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the national border into Herefordshire, England. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently confused with the westernmost, which is known as the Black Mountain. To confuse matters further, there is a peak in the Black Mountains called Black Mountain.
