A Tough Hike To The Most Remote Hill In Wales
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- The most remote hill top in mainland Wales is Tyle Garw on Mynydd Du, the Black Mountain area of Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons. It's 468 metres high and 4.875 Kilometres from the nearest road. Unfortunately there is no parking on that road so the nearest point of access of around 7-8K away. With a very strong and bitter easterly wind blowing across the top and a lack of shelter I decided to camp just below the hill - so I have some unfinished with Tyle Garw!
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Equipment on this trip: (some of which I have had for years!)
Filming:
Gopro Hero 9
Gopro Mediamod
Rode Go ll wireless microphone.
Generic (ie cheap!) tripod/selfie stick from Amazon
Joby lightweight tripod
Garmin InReach mini 2
Rucsac:
Osprey Exos 48
Tent:
Big Sky International Chinook 1P
4 Easton 9in pegs
4 Big Sky 6in nails
6 Vampire 6in pegs
Sleep systems:
Exped Flexmat XS
Nemo Tensor Long Wide Sleeping Mat
Rab Asecent 00 Sleeping Bag
Flextail Gear pillow
Cooksets:
Xboil Alcohol stove
Soto River Pot
What a cracking video! Real down to earth stuff. Strong winds, Babies Heads (tussocks), pitching in the dark, missing the sunrise. Admitting to knackeredness. I'm inspired.
Toddlers heads I reckon! Thanks for watching and for the comment.
You was very lucky 🍀 with the weather , every time I go that way from Cornwall where I am , it rains like mad lol 😂, fair play you covered some ground. ATB Roger keep posting
What an adventure for you on your wild camp in Wales. I share your views on windy weather conditions. Know the feeling of facing challenges against fierce winds.
Yeah- winds can turn a decent walk into a struggle! Thanks for watching - ATB, Roger
I’ve walked along the Beacons Way over Garreg las and remember looking at Tyle Garw thinking it looks like the moon because of all the rocks in between me and it!
It has got some interesting rock formations on it. Long little terraces with 3ft high faces. Thanks for watching, Roger
Saw you on paul mesner, the age you started the channel, so subbed to support you as you are a motivator to others, and you look great for your age very mobile.
Thanks for that. Just decent genes I guess. Though I've been walking in the hill pretty much all my life, only started filming it in 2021.
That must have been some adventure, That area can be tough going off the main bridal track. I actully camped right next to Sinc Giedd september 1993, I remember it well it was my first two night camp in the Beacons. 👌 To see the whirlpool and the water disappearing under ground is one of the reason I remember the trip ATB 😉
Rough hardly gets there to be honest The first bit of "off-piste" was awful! Must go back before the rains stop and the stream dries up.
Blimey! That looked wild country Roger.....quite Pennine in appearance and character and we also have vast tracts of those horrible Molinia tussocks too. I hope you make it back to the swallow hole, I'd like to see that. ATB, Chris
Yeah, unfinished business there I think. That grass is a bugger. There's a Wellington Bomber crash near there I'd like to find as well. Thanks for watching, Roger
Love it Roger - full view mate all the way. Gnarly in but you managed. Ah, the spirit of remoteness abounded there - I don't blame you for dropping down and pitching elsewhere. You were close enough. Good going. Mark
Thanks Mark. There's quite a lot of not very much out there on Mynydd Du. I'll approach it from a different direction next time!
@@thewanderingforesterA pleasure Roger - well I loved that nothingness mate. See you out there again sometime.
I hiked the dragons back and camped waun fach last night - the fields by castel Dinas there are insanely boggy despite looking clean. Like above boot deep despite looking like grass. I can’t imagine how boggy it was round where you were!
The whole world seems to be a bog lately! Apart from the bogs the streams were really full as well. Thanks for watching, Roger
I came over from Holmes and subscribed.
And you are very welcome.
A overnight camp by that river would be good...
Just what I was thinking when I was there. Not too hard to get there as long as I don't try any clever navy stuff! Thanks for watching, Roger
Disappointed. Cheese & Biscuits is a stable for any wild camp right? haha "bit off all that I can chew" as he bites into a rock hard Picnic hahah love it. But still a gorgeous journey
Cheers Mike. Despite all the problems I really enjoyed that one. Cheese & biscuits will be back. ATB, Roger
That was a proper hike Rodger (hard
Going is an understatement mate 🙌🙌)
The water fall /up fall was impressive
The Beacons as they really are mate (time lapse was 👌🏻)
ATB Simon 🤠👍🏔️🏴
Yep, proper hike! I will get back out there soon to have a look at Sinc Geld before the streams dry up. Thanks for watching, Roger
It did look pretty bleak, wild and isolated. A good place to hike and think.
Yes, plenty of space to get lost in thought out there. Very different to most of the Beacons. Thanks for watching, Roger
at 1,500 subs, could you do a review of the filling station/greasey spoon pies/sandwiches/cakes /soft drinks you treat yourself to on the way home?
It's an idea, I might have to break the habit of going to the same few places all the time though. ATB, Roger
I love my atom 40. Got rid of a 60 litre and fit the same stuff in. I admit it’s a squeeze with full winter kit but I find if I put my tent in vertically in one of the side pockets and the xtherm in the other it’s fine. Also I put my zlite under the external bungees. Even in winter I only carry 10-11 kg. I save weight also with lone peak altras runners so comfortable I hardly ever swap them. (I save over a kg on my heavy boots. Most of the time they cope allied with sealskinz socks. Even when the water gets it my feet do stay warm Hope this helps or at least give one campers method. Atb
I can get my winter kit into my Mo50 but it's a squeeze I can't be bothered with. It's the bulky winter sleeping bag that makes the difference. I'm still working on reducing the bulk of some of my kit. I wore Lone Peaks all last year but the soles wore out very quickly. I now have Topos which have the same footbox but vibram soles. I have been wearing my boots lately due to the extreme bogginess this winter. Thanks for your comments. ATB, Roger
@@thewanderingforester Agreed. I need light weight and comfort (old age etc 67). Yes the Altra does wear quickly, but so comfy and light. I’ve a small foot but very wide. Hard to find a good fit. Topos look good thanks Roger. We all feed of each other. Atb
Nice one Roger, can you drop me a grid ref for Tyle Garw, I thought I knew the area quite well, obviously not 😊
Yes,sure. SN 78495 17813. I saw it on someone else's video which gave me the idea. Thanks for watching, Roger
Sinc y giedd? I walked most of the way there in the rain once and found the landscape so bloody bleak and somehow more spooky or unsettling than the rest of the beacons I decided not to camp there
Bleak is right. And at the moment its pretty much just one huge bog! Enjoyed it though. Thanks for watching, Roger