Newsletter - Black Mountain walk and other stuff

This Saturday, we are heading out into the depths of the Black Mountain to explore the central region of this mysterious wilderness. In the meantime, Doug has been exercising himself organising the Pembroke weekend, more about that later. First things first though.

Cwn Twrch - Black Mountains walk.

This is a hill walk, but since we start quite high up from Ystradowen, there are not many long steep climbs to be concerned about. The main challenge will be the terrain as paths are not clear and the navigation skills of the leader will be required. The walk start and ends in Ystradowen (GR 752125), from a small car park next to a playground. From there we head in a generally northerly direction to the west of the Twrch river, heading towards some territory that would be familiar to you from one of Doug's walks last year. We then wander east where we may be challenged by a stream. When the walk was reccied, this was a challenge as we had heavy rain just prior to the walk, so the steam was flowing and we had to paddle across holding our boots! We then turn South, this time t the East of the Twrch making our way back to Ystradowen.

Distance 12 Miles

Meet Point County Hall at 9:30 or Ystradowen at 10:15.

Dogs Of course dogs are allowed, but as usual, the owner must take full responsibility for them and ensure they are under proper control.

Equipment Rain gear, good footwear food and drink. Check the website for a full list, remember, this is a hill walk in a remote area.

Entertainment We can go to the Pontardawe in afterwards to a refreshment if desired.

Contact You can contact me on 07790807510 or email r.h.lewis@ntlworld.com for more info

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Weekend in Pembrokeshire - 24th to 26th November

We are now getting a list of people together to go on the Pembrokeshire/St. Davids Weekend! We'll be going up on the afternoon and evening of Friday 24th November, and coming back on the Sunday 26th. Walks haven't been planned properly at this stage but I can say there'll be nothing too strenuous, we're thinking of a five mile walk on one day and a nine mile walk on the other as a guide.

An 18-bed hostel, part of St. Davids YHA has been booked and if we can fill it, it will work out at £8.35 per night!
If we get less than 18 it will cost slightly more, but I'm anticipating a full house as the Black Country Group are also joining us! We're allocating 9 places to each group, but if we have more than a total of 18 going then those who haven't reserved their place in time have the option to arrange their own accommodation in the various guesthouses of St. Davids.

If you want to find out more about the trip then please call me (Doug) on 0766652837, or Rob L on 07990807510.
I am going away for a long holiday from 25th September to 3rd Oct, so Rob's your man to contact then.

To reserve your place send a deposit of £10 to Rob. Cheques are now made payable to Tawe Trekkers, as we now have our own bank account, wey hey!

Cheques to be posted to:

Rob Lewis
89 Gellifawr Road
Morriston
Swansea
SA6 7PW

Total cost as yet unconfirmed, but as I say, if we fill the hostel it will be £8.35 per night/£16.70 for two.

In a bad case scenario and we only get, say 10 people from both groups coming (unlikely), then it will still only be £15 per night.

Anyway, hope this tickles your fancy, and I will be back from distant shores in time to sort out final arrangements.

Cheers,

Doug

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Sustrans Route 8 Lon Las Cymru slideshow

As some of you are aware, Doug, Laura and me, along with our friend Sue from the Swansea Outdoor Group had a momentary loss of reason and we cycled from Holyhead to Swansea using the Sustrans Route 8 for the most part.

We had a great week, and Sue, Laura and myself are doing a slideshow on it (and hopefully encouraging others to attempt to 'challenge the dragon') in the environment centre on starting at 7:30 pm on Wednesday 27th September.

Entry is free and it may inspire one or two others to something similar, or just to laugh at pictures of Doug and me in our silly cycle shorts!

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Brunswick Week

Don't forget, there is a Brunswick night on Thursday 20th September if you want to meet up down there starting at 8:00pm